The Evaluation Community of India (ECOI) was launched by Ms. Sindhushree Khullar, CEO, NITI Aayog, Government of India on October 16, 2015. 

ECOI seeks to promote knowledge sharing in the area of M&E for high quality, credible and useful evaluations for more effective programs and policies in India.

The group also seeks to contribute to formal capacity building at various levels by:

a) setting standards

b) advocating demand for and practice of evaluation, and

c) developing norms of competencies by synthesizing national and international requisites