Research Projects

Research Projects

West Bengal Human Development Report 2025

A comprehensive study of human development priorities, practices and achievements. The report has been submitted to the Govt. of West ...

Voices and Choices of Working Women in West Bengal: A Study of Select Sectors

Pratichi (India) Trust has undertaken a study to assess key barriers to women’s entry, retention, and advancement in selected professional ...

Status of Child Protection at Juvenile Justice Homes in West Bengal (2014)

Pratichi Institute and Railway Children in collaboration with the State Level Inspection and Monitoring Committee of Homes constituted by the ...

Status of Elementary Education in the States of Assam, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha and Tripura (2013)

This collaborative project was undertaken by the Pratichi Institute and UNICEF in order to understand the various factors and their ...

Inquiry into Secondary Education in West Bengal (2013)

This study, in association with UNICEF Kolkata, aspired to address the knowledge gaps in the general awareness that appear to ...

Monitoring the Cooked Mid-day Meal Programme in Kolkata, Murshidabad, Malda and Jalpaiguri (2013)

This project was undertaken to monitor and inquire into certain generally unremarkable features crucial to the apt implementation of the ...

Evaluation of the Sarva Shiksha Mission in North Bengal (2012)

This project originated from an animated discussion on some apposite suggestions of certain members of the state’s Department of School ...

Study on Non-Communicable Diseases in West Bengal (2012)

This study was carried out with support from the Department of Health & Family Welfare, NRHM, Government of West Bengal ...

The Pratichi-CRY Project: Improving the schooling process (2010 – 2016)

Pratichi partnered Child Rights and You (CRY), a leading NGO with international links, for over half a decade – beginning ...

Inquiry into the Status of Elementary Education in Bihar (2010)

This inquiry involved working in six villages selected in each of the five districts of Bhojpur, Bhagalpur, Gopalganj, Madhubani and ...

Study of Primary Education in West Bengal for Pratichi Education Report II (2009)

Seven years after the first set of surveys conducted by the Pratichi research team in 2001-02 involving a number of ...

Study on the Delivery of ICDS in West Bengal for Pratichi Child Report I (2008)

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is the largest child development programme in the world involving a number of services ...

Study of Public Primary Education in Kolkata (2006)

This project had its genesis in an invitation from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to Pratichi to conduct a study ...

Inquiry into the Public Private Interface in Primary Schooling in West Bengal (2006)

This inquiry into the phenomenon of the emergence of private schools as an alternative to government sector schools in different ...
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