Summary

More than 25 years of work experience in evidence based program planing, Implementation with various international agencies with world major donner such as USAID and DFID. Extending technical assistance in the Health, Nutrition and Wash related large scale government program with multiple agency is the key feature of my past experiences.

Professional Experience

• Senior Project Officeraug-1996 - apr-2006

  The Future Group International

  Liaise with senior officials of the Departments of Health and Family Welfare HFW and SIFPSA, Uttar Pradesh for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of innovative Family Planning Reproductive and Child Health FP RCH projects Collecting and compiling data from secretariatDirectorate and various development departments for effective RCH programme planning and implementation  Organize various national and international level workshops seminars conferences orientations for senior officials of department of HFW SIFPSA NGOs other partners related to FPRCH.Assist and support national and international consultants to review existing government policies and programmes related to FPRCH and coming out with recommendations for strengthening of state policies.Assist and facilitate SIFPSA in decentralized planning and implementation of innovative FPRCH interventions  Responsible for developing decentralized Action Plan for FPRCH activities of the state in 38 districts of Uttar Prad

• Manager Capacity Buildingmay-2006 - feb-2007

  Constella Futures Group International

   Enhance and enable various project partner’s capacity to get best results with regard to Innovations in Family Planning Services IFPS II project  Organize policy formulation workshops for national, international experts and senior government officials  Organize policy dissemination workshops and working group meeting especially of international subject specialists  Working with expertsinstitutions on policy related studies and evaluation  Develop training manuals and organize various training programmes, orientation programmes, exposure visit and National and International workshops for various project partners and program manager’s especially senior government officials for better FPRCH outcomes  Evaluate and review various training related Projects planning, management, monitoring and evaluation implemented by government, NGOs and corporate houses.

• Senior technical Advisorfeb-2007 - nov-2012

  Intrahealth International

  Provide technical assistance TA to Government at national, state and district level for planning, implementing and monitoring evidence based programming related to Maternal and New Born Child Health and Nutrition MNCHN Lead in identifying, conceptualization, designing and roll out of evidence based programmes related to MNCHN for implementation at scale including its quality monitoring in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand  Critically review and analyze evidence of best practices related to Maternal and New Born Child Health and Nutrition MNCHN and recommendations for replication of these best practices for programming at scale  Advocate for the scale up of proven MNCHN best practices with UP and Jharkhand state Governments and their partners  Advocate with Governments and their counterparts on evidence based decision making with a view to influence MNCHN policies for programme correction  Contribute towards the quarterly and annual planning process of the Project and over

• Director, Program Implementationjun-2014 - mar-2016

  Care India

  Overall lead of Program implementation and management of 150 skilled professionals in the health, nutrition and WATSAN sectors hired and deployed by BTAST at 6-Regions,38 Districts and Block levels to plan and support SWASTH Programme interventions and supporting NHM, ICDS, and SBA programs of government through Technical Assistance T.A. Lead in identifying, conceptualization, designing and roll out of evidence based programmes related to Maternal Child Health Nutrition MCHN and WASH for implementation at scale including its quality monitoringsupervision • Support national, state, regional and district teams in effective and coordinated delivery of SWASTH Programme interventions across three departments with the support of more than 150 professionals in entire state. Advocate policy change based on evidence from interventions initiated in the State at national level. Advocate innovative measures with relevant government departments to improve delivery of health, nutrition and WATS

• Senior Development Promoteroct-1988 - mar-1993

  Deepalaya Plan Project, New Delh

  Planning, implementation and monitoring, supervising various programmes in the sector of Health, Education, Income enhancement and Community Development for West Delhi slum dwellers.Responsible for the training of grassroots workers and local NGOs, staff administration, need based programme planning, budgeting and implementation.Administration of 50 Workers as part of my administrative duties.Special Responsibilities assigned during this period .Member of HRD Task Force- developing job descriptions of community level workers; orientation, skill training and regular assessment of performance.Member of SAGE Situation Analysis and Goal Establishment team- community based situational analysis of socio-economic status for annual planning.Member of FOES Field Office Evaluation System team- annual programme planning, implementation of various programmes related to Health, Education, Income enhancement and Community development and assessing performance gap at the end of the year

• Child Development Project Officer - may-1995

  Department of Women and Child Development with Government of Rajasthan,

  Responsible for implementing, monitoring and supervising ICDS centers in one of the biggest ICDS blocks consisting of 210 villages in Rajgarh Block of Thar desert district district Churu, Rajasthan As Project leader, responsible for supervising 450 local development workers of various levels Responsible for liaison with district and state level Government Officials and functionaries As a part of early attempts of Public Private Partnership PPP model to implement ICDS scheme in difficult terrains, was assigned additional responsibilities this period To promote and strengthen 40 grassroots level local NGOs for facilitating implementation of ICDS Leading the training programmes and workshops for grassroots workers and Volunteers for facilitating implementation of ICDS

• Senior Research Officermay-1995 - may-1996

  Indian Institute of Health Management and Research, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

   Responsible for leading Quality assurance team for all research work related activities conducted by IIHMR  Planning and executing Quality training of field investigators, house listershouse mappers for conducting baseline survey of the USAID funded IFPS Project in Uttar Pradesh  Developing various tools for evaluation and assessment of developmental activities related projects  Supervising and monitoring extensive field work related to research with an emphasis on Data Quality Management Support and facilitate the faculties of IIHMR to organize short term Health Management training programmes

Volunteering Experience

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Awards & Certifications

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