Saumya Mathur

Saumya Mathur
Designation: Former Research Associate, 3ie
Saumya was responsible for providing support on a range of projects, including the mixed-method evaluation of the Collective Impact (CI) Initiative targeted at waste pickers in Bengaluru city.

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Best practices for working with survey partners and monitoring data quality

Saumya Mathur, Chandan Jain 30 November 2022 blog  
Collecting primary data for impact evaluations can be both costly and time-intensive, especially in terms of planning, designing survey instruments, setting up field protocols, training enumerators, data collection, supervision, quality assurance, and handling field-level challenges. Evaluators and researchers often partner with survey firms to implement and manage field operations for data collection.

Three ways theories of change are helping evaluate a complex initiative to improve waste pickers’ lives

Stuti Tripathi, Chandan Jain, Indira Patil, Saumya Mathur 16 May 2022 blog  
Urban waste pickers face several intertwined challenges such as low incomes, limited education, poor health, social marginalization, and domestic violence. In Bengaluru, India, 3ie is currently evaluating an initiative called Saamuhika Shakti, which adopts an innovative ‘Collective Impact’ approach to improving the lives of informal waste pickers. The initiative, just like the problems it looks to address, is complex.