About

An independent research firm built for India's most complex evaluation questions.

Evident was founded in 2014 by a group of development economists and field researchers who wanted to put rigorous, independent evidence into the hands of the people designing India's largest social programmes.

Mission

To make evaluation evidence routine, not exceptional.

We believe every rupee directed at social outcomes deserves an honest answer on what it changed and what it did not. That belief shapes how we design samples, write tools, train enumerators, run back-checks and — most importantly — how we write the final report.

We work as a long-term research partner to our clients, not a transactional survey vendor. Our researchers stay close to the implementation team throughout the cycle so that findings, when they arrive, are already in conversation with the questions that matter.

Field network

One of the largest in-house enumerator pools in the country.

28

States with active teams

3,400+

Trained enumerators

7

Regional field offices

14

Languages supported

Leadership

The researchers behind every engagement.

DA

Dr. Anjali Iyer

Founder & Principal Researcher

Former DMEO advisor; PhD Development Economics, JNU.

RM

Rohan Mehta

Director, Field Operations

15 years leading multi-state survey rollouts at IDinsight and NSSO.

SB

Shreya Banerjee

Head of Quantitative Methods

MSc Statistics (ISI Kolkata); specialises in quasi-experimental designs.

VP

Vivek Pradhan

Head of Qualitative Research

Mixed-methods researcher with deep expertise in health and gender.