Demography
demography and population research is one of our core priority areas. We can create vast database in this segment and are well aware about the finer details about various aspects of demographic indicators.
Sectoral Expertise
Economics
Economic aspects related to welfare of the population, employment generation, opportunities for self employment., financial inclusion and access to financial & banking services a€“ are relevant for social and economic upliftment of a nation. We try our best to do our part of database creation, its updating and analysis as per requirement to make all stakeholders aware about all facts and figures.
Rural Development
SLR team is well aware about the key aspects of rural development, integrated approach and community driven functioning, watershed based interventions, besides infrastructure creation, development of agriculture & rural industries, holistic development of the rural population and creation of sustainable livelihood for weaker sections and unemployed youth.Rural connectivity, telephony, electrification, soil & water conservation is all also typical in the overall growth and development of rural based economy. Data of selected parameters are maintained by each department implementing the sectoral interventions with internal or external resources. SLR support is available for information collection and valid database creation or cross verification and updates of existing database.
Health & Sanitation
Health & sanitation is one of the most prominent and key area of development. Denial of health services and sub-optimal services has serious consequences in the overall economy of any nation. Research and data on a large number of indicators are essential functioning of this sector, especially in the under-privileged sections of the society mainly living in rural and adjacent areas. SLR as an institution has strong focus on all such facets in the health & sanitation sector.
Education & Literacy
An educated population can create a greater impact in the overall progress and sustainable development profile of a nation. Access to basic education and literacy is seen as a fundamental right rather than a privilege. Consequently, numerous database pertaining to access to education, amenities and facilities provided to learners, identification of gaps, interventions from the program authorities, funded schemes and projects and their status are critical. SLR can provide huge support in this sector.
Social Welfare
Social Welfare and Social Security measures are primarily citizen centric services in terms of allowances, grants & subsidies and pensions, financial support & credit for specific activities aimed at income generation, welfare activities pertaining to community awareness , addressing disabilities, and many other associated parameters that are important to support the society in multiple ways. Critical database creation and gaps in information requirements can be fulfilled by SLR.
Water Resources & Irrigation
Water resources and irrigation is not only important for agriculture, but also creates a huge impact in livelihood creation and enable participatory development process. Besides technical database, key data on selected indicators and parameters, are critical for community participation, agricultural production as well as participatory irrigation management. Lack of adequate and authentic data on important parameters may affect the progress and development in a selected location spread across vast geographical area. Support of SLR services are readily available for community level feedback, database creation and validation on all important parameters including technical and non-technical aspects.
Agriculture & Allied Activities
Access to credit and inputs in a timely manner, access to markets with minimum support prices, availability of water and technical support are critical for the success of the sector that contributes a substantial proportion in the countrya€?s GDP.
Women & Child Development
Overall development of women & children ensures a substantial proportion of the achievements of productive populace contributing in the economy. Education, health, nutrition, general welfare are all critical for the success of women and children as a part of the population and their subsequent contribution to the society and economy. SLR can closely watch the situation and assess the level of indicators necessary for valid database creation and their correct updates and modifications from time to time. Immunization, growth, nutritional status, access to pre-school education of children, nutrition and health related counselling are important parameters.
Food & Nutrition
Undernourishment and malnourishment are curse for the society and nation as a whole. Access to basic nutrition may be denied to a large segment of the population even after several decades of independence. To bridge the gap several interventions and schemes are planned in a centralized or area based approach in isolation based on special and specific needs. Requirement of database is inevitable. Nutrition is always integrated with food sector, adolescent health, maternal and child health care. As such we can offer similar services in nutrition sector to create information about key parameters, including access, quality & safety, gaps and improvements through interventions , etc.
Energy and Electrification
SLR can handle database procurement and documentation on non-technical parameters and indicators across various domain of the sector, including electrification status, alternative energy sources, periodic progress reviews and the like
Small Scale Industries
Small scale industries are creating greater impact on the overall economy in aggregate.Contribution of the small scale and home based industries in a populous country like India is critical for its economic growth. For close monitoring correct database on various key aspects are necessary and SLR is always ready to support.
Internet & Telecommunication
Important dimensions of internet access and telecommunication systems can be watched continuously for the smooth functioning of day to day activities both in rural & urban areas, institutional & non-institutional usage. Improvement in the sector in the sector is necessary for modernization of manufacturing & production system, exchange of information and better co-ordination and communication that ensures success of any organization. Based on clients need any database creation on this sector may be taken up by SLR if feasible and mutually agreed.
Public Distribution System
Service delivery system under the PDS is unique and offers solution to multiple needs at the household level especially for the economically wearer sections, including foodgrains, fuels and other items. Impact of the PDS can only be effectively gauged through database creation by independent services. SLR is ready to support.
Roads & Bridges
Connectivity sector is very critical for industrial growth in many aspects mainly for transportation & marketing purposes.Services of SLR is available for all qualitative and quantitative information in this sector which are essentially progress indicators.
Professional Skills & Expertise
The professional skills and expertise of the organization lies in the continuum of services linked with database creation, data validation research and evaluations, monitoring & assessments. We are equally well versed with project implementation support, training & capacity building activities across multiple sectors.
- Large Scale Surveys Our research staff , especially at the field level are capable of handing listing & mapping exercise of PSUs , besides conducting face to face data collection, after completing necessary sampling of the households of the paneled respondents, both for periodic surveys as well as one time data collections.
- Data base Creation & Data Validation We are capable of preparing research tools for database creation for the purpose of data collection and analysis. Data consistency checks are integral part of the process. However, many a times independent data validation rounds are also carried out based on type of assignment and specific requirement.
- Research & Evaluation Monitoring& Evaluation assignments are usually based on assessment of the project interventiona€?s& the outcomes based on selected parameters. Based on core objectives, many a times research tools and protocols are standardized followed by data collection, analysis, presentations and final report submissions.
- Promotional Activities Conducting seminars & workshops, creating display materials , hoardings & banners, preparing & printing leaflets &pamphlets are also some associated activities we venture into.
- Consultancy Research based consultancy works like preparation of project implantation plans. Preparation of research tools, creating time bound action plans, giving suggestions and recommendations based on field level findings are integrated into our service delivery options.
- Capacity Building& Training Orientation of the project implementers and grassroots level functionaries , are another area of our services. Besides, arranging training & meeting sessions, we may also create training modules for program based interventions, instructorsa€? manual, subject guides, etc.
- Project Implementation Support SLR also wishes to be involved in project implementation support activities as per the need of the client based on available expertise and capabilities gained across various key sectors of development in various zones of the country.
Institutional capacity of SLR lies in various facets of research & evaluation works including large scale surveys and data solutions to the client. In due course of time the organization is targeted to become a data hub and one point data solutions for its valued clients. Based on the expertise and experience gained by the organization SLR is able to carry our research & data collection works in multiple domains including but not limited to..
Our select services include:
- Listing & Sampling Works in Assigned Units
- Conducting Interviews & Capturing Feedbacks of Respondents
- Conducting Longitudinal Surveys a€“ Periodical Surveys , Base Line & End Line
- Data Consistency Checks and Validation
- Data Analysis & Report Preparations
- Conducting Workshop & Seminars
- Undertaking Promotional Activities
- Carrying Out Monitoring & Evaluation and Impact Assessments
- Carrying Out Assessments Across Treatment & Control Groups
- Program Implementation Support
- Training & capacity Building
We have Pan India reach to collect data from different linguistic states. SLR stands strong with more than 150 experienced male and female Field Investigators, Supervisors and Field Coordinators with their minimum qualification as graduation. Team SLR is proud to share its experience in both (Pen paper & CAPI) kinds of surveys and is fully equipped with Android based devices such as smartphones or tablets.
All such supervisors and investigators are essentially graduates in various disciplines and well versed with local conditions. They can handle interactions with multiple stakeholders in local languages and dialects.
They get proper training in each project for various aspects of surveys and data collection includinga€“
- Protocols of Surveys
- Compliance of Various Rules & regulation
- Conducting Interviews
- Subject Matter
- Data Collection & Consistency Checks
- Documentations & Case Studies
- Data Compilation and large Scale database creation
Our research staff are well versed with handling many data analytics software , including excel, SPSS and the like, besides document creation with professional touch and also using presentation software. They are essentially adept in conversion of raw data into filtered database, their analysis and systematic planning for contents in preparing draft and final report with necessary charts, graphs and tabulations.