Sunai Consultancy is serving since 2005. Impact of our services is at the very grassroot as well as national-global level.


A child learned to read, a woman returned to their in-laws, performance of teachers in the government primary school improved, better mid-day meal quality, hand pump got repaired… these endless impacts are driven by collectiveness of residents. Niwasi Sabha resources | niwais.in

MAPAN surveys by Sunai Consultancy have been for some of the largest and impactful reports published in recent times. Some are : Teenage Girls Report (TAG); RECOUP ‘Political Economy of Education in India’; The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India; Social Protection For A Changing India…


• 15 years of operations • 208 MAPAN survey projects in sectors like Poverty Alleviation, Primary Education, Child Protection, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Health, Women Empowerment, Livelihood and others. • Over 7,00,000 surveys of randomly selected respondents spread across large geography.

Key Projects

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Data collection for Teen Age Girls (TAG) Report 2018

Sunai Consultancy is a proud data collection partner in preparation of the first ever and largest Teen Age Girls Survey - the TAG Survey...

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Gram Panchayat mapping 2019 – services, facilities and scio-economy status of population

Development Management Insititute (DMI), a premier management institution established...

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Technical support team to Reform Support Unit, Rural Development Department, Government of Bihar (RSU). Between 2009-2012 (about 3.5 years).

Under the Technical Assistance program, the World Bank established a reform support unit (RSU) within the Rural ...

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Resident centric initiatives

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Zero Waste Magadh Mahila College Campus - 2019

Magadh Mahila college is one of the pioneer colleges for women in Bihar. The college currently imparts quality education to more than 4000 students and its hostel caters to over 400 students. Food is cooked for hostel students in the hostel mess generates food waste...

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People perception and practice survey :Toilet, Fecal Sludge and Waste Water management

Survey report from 1042 respondents from 28 rural habitation from 13 districts of Bihar. Families with not useable toilet reduced drastically in last 5-6 years from 61% in 2015 to 26% in 2021.

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NIWASI Application


A collectiveness tool for residents.


Niwasi App is a community tool for residents, that makes collective action easy for them.

Key modules of the Niwasi App are the Resident’s Sabha module: resident sabha date announcing, auto-generated residents sabha, giving agenda, agenda prioritising, voting on the proposal, resident’s collective decisions and resident’s decision tracking, resident’s driven urgent Niwasi Sabha, historical catalogue of agenda, Niwasi sabha, and decisions...

- A resident can get access to multiple communities in the App with one login credential… and more.

The application also helps residents and its partner NGO to have community-generated summary report in real-time. This community-generated report card gets shared with all residents and the stakeholders within the community as well as outside.

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