Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Lakshmi Soma is a Research Manager at Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd., with a focus on liaising with government officials for the implementation of monitoring and evaluation studies across various states in India. Lakshmi has extensive experience working with central and state governments, multilateral organizations, and financial institutions, providing advisory services in social and financial inclusion, sustainable development, and climate-smart policies. Prior to this role, Lakshmi served as Deputy Manager Research Development, where a framework was designed for assessing numerous cluster level federations and self-help groups. Lakshmi began a career in research with a summer internship at Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, where a study design was developed to evaluate the eco-tourism industry in Bihar. Lakshmi holds a postgraduate degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya.
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Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Sambodhi Research & Communications helps create high-impact knowledge to catalyse accountability in public domain. We offer project management, monitoring & evaluation and research solutions to implementers, federal and state governments, bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and corporate philanthropic foundations. Over the past decade, we have pioneered cutting-edge methodologies for evaluation of large-scale interventions across sectors and themes including public health, nutrition, sanitation, natural resources, renewable energy, livelihoods and microfinance. Sambodhi also works towards enhancing appreciation of evidence-based functioning among development organisations and practitioners. As part of our field-building effort, we co-founded the Community of Evaluators-South Asia (CoE-SA); are home to the South Asian Journal for Evaluation in Practice (SAJEP) – first-of-its-kind peer reviewed journal on evaluation from this region; and have trained more than 5,000 professionals on M&E and related areas.