The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) were constituted in September, 2015, by merging the erstwhile Programme Evaluation Office (PEO) and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO). It is an attached office under NITI Aayog, aimed at fulfilling the organization’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mandate, and building the M&E ecosystem in India. DMEO’s vision is to improve sustainable outcomes and impacts of the government. It aims to enable high-quality monitoring and evaluation of government programmes to improve effectiveness, efficiency, equity and sustainability of service delivery, outcomes and impacts. 

The objectives of DMEO are:

1. To enable data-driven policy making; to enable a culture of deep learning from regular self-evaluation in all the tiers of the government;
2. To institutionalize rigorous tracking of performance metrics and comprehensive programme evaluations;
3. To strengthen the whole ecosystem to mainstream rigorous outcome monitoring and evaluation;
4. To introduce and expand use of cutting edge technologies and data analytical tools for real time monitoring of government programmes;
5. To provide data and tools to drive effectiveness and efficiency of government programmes; and
6. To help identify weaknesses and bottlenecks for necessary course correction.