Overview

Awadh Research Foundation (ARF) is a leading professional organization involved in rendering professional services to international agencies and government departments across various development sectors and services.

Since its inception in the year 2005, ARF has to its credit undertaken a host of challenging assignments for various international agencies including The World Bank [Vendor Identification No. : 124140], University of Maryland, University of Virginia USA, Brown UniversityUSA, Google Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The International Growth Centre (IGC) London School of Economics (LSE) and Foundation of Advanced Studies in International Development Japan.

Headquartered at Lucknow (India), ARF has worked with a number of government and semi-governmental departments at the State and national level, including the Department of Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi..

The focus of ARF as an institution is to ensure an efficient and effective delivery of its services through a seamless multi-disciplinary team that brings expert skills and deep sector knowledge. Our team comprises of professionals from the field of management, social sciences, medicine, agriculture, education, engineering, environmental sciences and finance. The ARF team is unique in the sense that it blends together a rare mix of highly qualified experts, cutting edge skills and field level insights from its committed team of professionals. The team members represent a wide spectrum of specializations including conducting baseline, mid-line & end-line studies, large-scale socio-economic surveys, monitoring various development projects/programs, undertaking evaluation & impact assessment studies, conducting large-scale census operations, human resource training & orientation programs, organizing seminars & workshops, undertaking community mobilization & awareness generation campaigns, application of various participative research methodologies and the like.