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Athena Infonomics We are a development consulting firm with a focus on strengthening the use of data and social science For more, please visit www.athenainfonomics.in

Athena Infonomics is a fast growing policy research and development analytics firm with a focus on strengthening the use of data and social science research to solve development and inclusive growth issues around the world. Athena lies at the intersection of the public and private sectors, helping policy makers and development sector actors design data-backed policies and programs. Within a short span of time since inception, Athena has succeeded in distinguishing itself for its cutting-edge research methods and tools for modeling socio-economic phenomenon and deriving solutions. Using a holistic, multi- disciplinary approach, conceptual depth and analytical rigor, the organization has partnered with diverse global stakeholders to design innovative approaches that solve some of the most challenging problems of our times. Athena’s sectors of intervention include ‘Urban Governance’, ‘Education and Skills’, ‘Energy and Sustainability’, ‘Healthcare’, ‘Gender and Development’ and ‘Trade and Competitiveness’. Its service offerings span across ‘Needs Assessment’, ‘Intervention Design’, ‘Monitoring and Evaluation’, ‘Behaviour Modeling’, ‘Pilot Testing’, ‘Capacity Building’, ‘Option Analysis’, ‘Scale up Assessment’ and ‘Public Private Partnership Advisory’. Founded in 2010, Athena is supported by a strong network of distinguished policy makers,
academics and intellectuals, who play an active advisory and consulting role. The company’s core team consists of professionals with diverse backgrounds from some of the top educational institutions in the world. Athena derives its name from the Greek Goddess for wisdom, craft and strategy, while Infonomics is a study and emergent discipline of quantifying, managing and leveraging information as an asset. Founded in India, Athena's corporate office is in Washington DC, with a strong support team in Chennai and presence in New Delhi. Athena has a strong global footprint and its work has spanned across India, South Asia, South East Asia, East and Southern Africa.

The best measure of our work isn’t what we say about it. It’s what our partners say once the work is done.Every engageme...
16/10/2026

The best measure of our work isn’t what we say about it. It’s what our partners say once the work is done.

Every engagement starts with trust. A partner hands us a question that matters to their mission, and our job is to bring back answers they can rely on and act on. When that trust is honoured, something lasting is built: a relationship, not just a deliverable.

That’s why moments like these mean so much to us. They remind our teams why the long field days, the careful analysis and the extra round of revisions are always worth it.

A heartfelt thank you to our clients for their kind words, and for letting us be part of the work they do.

What’s the one quality you value most in a research or evaluation partner? Tell us in the comments.

We are delighted to share that Shivi represented Athena Infonomics in the latest FCDO SME Advisory Forum webinar, reflec...
14/10/2026

We are delighted to share that Shivi represented Athena Infonomics in the latest FCDO SME Advisory Forum webinar, reflecting on our experience as a member of the Forum.

For SMEs looking to share their experience and help shape how FCDO engages with businesses and supply chains, Expressions of Interest for the FCDO SME Advisory Forum 2026/27 are now open.

🎥 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0fWdr1IU_g&feature=youtu.be
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Note: Applications close on 16 November 2026

Some realities never make it into the data. In Dhaka, we came together to change that.Who carries the water? Who feels u...
13/10/2026

Some realities never make it into the data. In Dhaka, we came together to change that.

Who carries the water? Who feels unsafe using a toilet?

For many women and girls in Bangladesh, these are everyday struggles. Yet they still go uncounted in the national data used to plan services and track progress. And what goes uncounted goes unseen.

On 29 September 2026, at the Sheraton in Banani, Dhaka, the Gender-Inclusive Indicators for WASH Monitoring Workshop brought together key institutions to discuss and validate better ways to measure these realities.

The aim is to look beyond whether people have water and sanitation, to whether it’s safe, private and accessible for everyone.

The room brought together the people who collect the data, deliver the services, fund the work and study the issues:

Government: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), BANBEIS, NIPORT, Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Dhaka WASA (DWASA)

Development partners, civil society and academia: WaterAid, UNICEF, Sida, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), B-SCAN, the MHM Platform, BUET and GSGS

The work is led by Emory University. Athena Infonomics supported the Bangladesh research, data collection, analysis, stakeholder engagement and national-level uptake, turning field evidence into practical indicators and bringing them to the institutions that can put them to use.

📖 Explore the priority gender-specific indicators tested in Bangladesh: https://washdata.org/reports/emory-2024-priority-gender-specific-indicators-for-wash-monitoring

The workshop marks an important step for gender-responsive WASH monitoring in Bangladesh. The next step is to move from research to real use: building these indicators into national monitoring systems, so the gender dimensions of WASH access, experience and services are measured consistently and shape decisions.

Because better data leads to better services for everyone.💧

Thank you to every institution and participant who brought their expertise to the table. Swipe through to see the day. 👉

📢 Now live on UNICEF India: The Road to Yutopia!We're proud to share that both frameworks in The Road to YuTopia, which ...
13/10/2026

📢 Now live on UNICEF India: The Road to Yutopia!

We're proud to share that both frameworks in The Road to YuTopia, which Athena Infonomics helped YuWaah India at UNICEF develop, have been published by UNICEF India.🎉

India’s future will be shaped by organisations that see young people as partners and leaders.

These two frameworks show how:
- Youth Centrality at Workplaces: a practical roadmap for businesses to build inclusive, future-ready workplaces. Young professionals’ voices are built into recruitment, culture, governance and innovation.

- Youth Centrality as Beneficiaries: a guide to designing youth programmes with young people, not just for them, so their priorities and lived experiences shape every decision.

A heartfelt thank you to UNICEF YuWaah, SAP, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and to every young person whose voice helped shape this work.

👉 Read and download the report: https://www.unicef.org/india/yutopia/youth-centrality-workplaces-framework

A girl walking to school today can face two threats to her childhood. One has existed for generations. The other arrives...
11/10/2026

A girl walking to school today can face two threats to her childhood. One has existed for generations. The other arrives through the phone in her pocket.

Child marriage and online abuse look very different, but both take away a girl’s choices, her safety and her childhood, often before anyone notices.

On International Day of the Girl, we honour the work of Just Rights for Children, whose network and partners have stopped or prevented more than 550,000 child marriages, and which is now bringing the same rule-of-law approach to online harms.

We feel honoured to be part of this effort, working alongside those who are committed to protecting children.

We hope our work with evidence, data and responsible AI can help identify risks earlier and ensure more children get the protection they deserve.

Her childhood is worth protecting, offline and online.

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Some of the best learning happens when you’re handed real work and trusted to figure it out. 💡That’s what Shaurya Rannot...
09/10/2026

Some of the best learning happens when you’re handed real work and trusted to figure it out. 💡

That’s what Shaurya Rannot's internship at Athena Infonomics looked like. Instead of watching from the sidelines, he worked on live projects, solved real problems and learned what it takes to deliver as part of a team.

What stood out most to us was how much he grew along the way. He took on responsibility, welcomed feedback and handled each new challenge with more confidence than the last.

In his own words, the experience shaped not just his skills, but how he approaches work and learning.

Thank you, for the energy and curiosity you brought to the team. We can’t wait to see where you go next! 🚀

Everyone's talking about AI transforming farming. We wanted to know if the evidence agrees.So, our team did the groundwo...
08/10/2026

Everyone's talking about AI transforming farming. We wanted to know if the evidence agrees.

So, our team did the groundwork. We searched databases, journals and repositories across Asia, Africa and Latin America, read study after study, and asked each one the same simple question:

Does this show AI actually helping a smallholder farmer?

Most studies didn't make it through. The 51 that did tell a story we think everyone working in this space should hear.

It's a story of real promise: AI that can catch crop disease early and help forecast yields.

But it's also a story of gaps. Of tools tested on computers far more often than in fields. Of farmers who are meant to benefit, yet barely appear in the research.

Swipe through for what we found 👉
Slide 6 has a number that surprised even us.

Global impact begins with understanding how global institutions work.Our team, Dr Rajesh Khanna and Manav Sharma, repres...
06/10/2026

Global impact begins with understanding how global institutions work.

Our team, Dr Rajesh Khanna and Manav Sharma, represented Athena at the UN Business Seminar, organised by the United Nations Operations Management Team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Over the course of the seminar, we:

- Connected with representatives from multiple UN agencies
- Gained a closer look at how UN procurement systems work
- Learned the processes, procedures, and pathways for partnering with the United Nations
- Exchanged ideas and explored avenues for future collaboration

The experience left us with valuable connections, greater clarity, and a sharper sense of how Athena can contribute to work that matters on a global scale.

This is just the beginning. We're excited to put these insights into action and deepen our engagement with the UN system.🤝

A big thank you to the organisers and everyone who made these conversations so meaningful.

When you look at a photo from the field, what do you see first: the work, or the person?It's easy to see the numbers: wa...
05/10/2026

When you look at a photo from the field, what do you see first: the work, or the person?

It's easy to see the numbers: water connections made, children measured, farmers reached, households surveyed. But behind every number is someone whose life it describes.

At Athena no matter what we do, whatever the sector, whatever the method, people stay at the centre.

- A farmer who finally owns the data collected about his own land, from our work on Farmer-Centric Models of Data Governance
- A student who made it to the end of a programme built to give her a second chance, from our Endline Assessment of the Second Chance Education and Vocational Learning Programme in India
- A mother getting her child properly examined, not just counted, from our Baseline Assessment Study for a Nutrition Intervention Program in Jharkhand and Odisha
- A woman filling her bucket from a tap that actually works, from our Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor work in Kenya

That's what sixteen years of applying data to development looks like up close.

Behind every finding is a person it was for.

Swipe through and look a little closer. The story is always in the frame. Follow us along.

💬 What's one moment from the field that changed how you see your work? Share it in the comments.

UNGA 81 put one question in front of every room we sat in: is AI actually built for the institutions and people meant to...
30/09/2026

UNGA 81 put one question in front of every room we sat in: is AI actually built for the institutions and people meant to use it, or simply handed to them?

The Institutional Intelligence Forum | Global South Edition explored what it takes to build sovereign institutional capability and move beyond isolated AI pilots. Language is the new digital divide. Most models still leave out low-resource languages, including many of Africa’s 2,000+ languages. The harder questions are around financing, fit, and who maintains a system after deployment. Governments need optionality, clear migration paths, and the ability to build on what already exists. Data also needs long-term stewardship. Someone has to govern it over time.

Responsible AI & Safe Digital Spaces for Children marked the start of a new collaboration with Just Rights for Children, focused on designing for children’s safety before harm occurs. The event also saw the launch of a new policy report spanning legal frameworks across 40 countries, authored by C-Lab. One idea kept returning: a technology can work perfectly and still fail a child if what it surfaces never reaches someone who can act on it.

At Recoding Impact: AI and the Future of the Global Social Sector, hosted by The Bridgespan Group, nearly 100 nonprofit leaders, funders, and technologists confronted the same challenge: AI doesn’t shift power on its own. People do. Layering technology onto existing inequity can simply accelerate it.

Different rooms, different conversations, same lesson: the technology was never the hard part.

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