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Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha), covering over
2.3 million households across 50 districts and 280
blocks. The digital survey provided strong
data-based support to build sectoral understanding
of circular migrants, including their difficult working
and living conditions, limited access to entitlements
(particularly PDS), and lack of access to social
security nets.
Delta Ace was launched later in the year to bolster
administrative capacity-building around data in 100
Smart Cities. The capacity-building initiative was
designed to empower all stakeholders within a
governance frame to read, use and leverage data.
Anchored and developed by the Trusts’ Data-Driven
Governance portfolio, Delta Ace rolled out its first
large-scale course, ‘Enabling Data-Driven
Governance in Urban Local Bodies’, in partnership
with the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing &
Urban Affairs (MoHUA). Since October 2020, this
instructor-led e-learning course has offered training
to City Data Officers (CDOs) across 100 Smart Cities,
to become the flag bearers of the data movement
and enable enhanced use of data within the cities.
The course has paved the way for capacity-building
to become an essential component of a city’s Data
Maturity Assessment Framework (DMAF), third
DELTA Baseline survey being conducted for the Madhya Pradesh Health Systems Strengthening Programme round onwards.

Overview

The Covid pandemic has made it jarringly evident In the thick of the first wave, it was established that:
that there is an urgent need for quality data, and  44% respondents reported a decrease in wages
systemic capacity to leverage this data, to design and 27% lost their jobs
and execute interventions effectively. Which is why
the Trusts’ efforts over the past one year focused on  46% reported having availed Public Distribution
augmenting data that could support its pandemic System (PDS) facilities and 31% had received cash
response and develop administrative capacities to benefits
embed a data culture.  45% reported an increase in food prices of staples
In order to better understand the impact of Covid at like oil, milk, wheat, rice and sugar (as reported in
the grassroots level, the Trusts—in collaboration with the previous week of survey)
NITI Aayog—conducted one of the largest Rapid In the same spirit, in August 2020, the Data-Driven
Assessment Surveys, across 75 Aspirational Districts Governance (DDG) portfolio also supported Tata
and 844 Gram Panchayats in April 2020. The Trusts’ programme focused on providing support to
telephonic survey included 18,000 households and migrants by building on the strengths of existing
covered key data points on 3 critical dimensions: Apna Seva Kendras (ASKs). The Trusts’ in-house
(a) awareness, (b) preparedness levels within the DELTA platform and application helped the
community, and (c) economic impact of the large-scale data-mapping effort across 6 states
pandemic and consequent lockdown. (Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan,

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