Budget Insights | 2025
ResGov is working to strengthen capabilities to ensure public initiatives reach the most vulnerable.
ResGov's three-pronged approach of 'Research', 'Build Capacities', and 'Dialogue' is geared towards strengthening the 21st century welfare state.
ResGov recognises that socio-economic, climate, and geographical vulnerabilities are interconnected and require people-centric solutions.
About Us
What's ResGov

Thousands of welfare services are designed for citizen welfare but remain inaccessible. Questions of underlying capacities of both, governments and citizens remain under-explored.
How can we develop solutions for these sticky problems?
We believe the answer lies in building capabilities.
Informed through decades of collective grassroots wisdom, we do this through evidence-based research, capacity building initiatives, and fostering dialogue for mutual-learning.
Our Areas of Work
What we do
At ResGov, we recognise that vulnerabilities often overlap and compound one another, creating cycles of disadvantage for marginalised populations. Our work addresses three key types of vulnerabilities — socio-economic, climatic, and geographic — to help governments and communities better respond to these challenges. These vulnerabilities are interconnected, with socio-economic disparities often heightening exposure to climate risks, and geographic factors influencing the accessibility of resources and services.
Our Approach
ResGov adopts a citizen-centric approach to address the welfare and development challenges of the 21st century. We recognise that socio-economic, climate, and geographical vulnerabilities are overlapping.Insights
We believe that rigorous evidence-based research can strengthen welfare service delivery. Our research rests on three pillars:
- People
- Process
- Public finance
People
We work with 'People' across levels of governments to unpack everyday challenges in navigating bureacracy and governance.
Process
We dissect the 'Processes' of decision-making, data collection, and planning of welfare service delivery to understand pathways for community empowerment.
Public Finance
We locate existing 'Public Finance' mechanisms to track last-mile fund flows and whether spending decisions and quality is responsive to people's needs.
Action
We believe that an informed leadership is better enabled to respond to community's needs. We build capacities of wide-ranging institutional stakeholders including CSOs, elected representatives, and bureaucrats, who are at the front-line of welfare service delivery. Our courses are also delivered through partnerships.
Dialogue
We believe in the power of dialogue for diversifying perspectives to reach common goals. By building a collective platform, we facilitate better citizen-state and CSO-state engagements and relationships through knowledge sharing.
PULSE 2.0 will partner with a select group of bureaucrats and CSOs to understand their need for such a platform.
Who we work with
Patrons and Partners
Resources & public engagements
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Together, We Can Achieve More!
We believe in combining mutual strengths for achieving our vision. Please reach out to us at hello@resgov.org if you wish to collaborate with us.