The project aims to create a repository of experience and knowledge picked up from the ground level or primary functionaries of administration and society. This is to generate a solutions exchange process amongst those striving to convert policies and programmes into realities so that lives of ordinary citizens in India could transform in the direction of greater entrepreneurship and self-sustenace.

The Governance Knowledge Center aims to achieve this through an evaluation of  innovations in governance practices.  The presumption over which it rests its strategy of evaluation is the  multidimensional nature of administration embedded into a purely comparative ethnographic profile of regions and areas. Administration and policy implementation is closely linked to the nature of its various participants, environment and community  institutions. This leads to each practice being unique in its own way but most of these practices are replicable and thus suggesting that new investment in trial and time in another area could be avoided. This would also help in reducing the rate of policies which backfire hence saving public money besides increasing their effectiveness and legitimacy .  A study of practices across regions within the country and also outside the country  may provide some understanding to the perplexing reality about why some practices which succeed at one place may fail somewhere else.

The purpose is to generate a dialogue across frontiers of insulated administrative departments and to help them move towards a holistic and more participatory paradigm of governance.