I am a professional in development sector, working for last 21 years in the rural and urban India. I have good experience of management, finance, leadership, coordination, planning and implementation of projects. Also I can do monitoring and evaluation of projects. I have good communication skill to relate with others.
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 Contact Ramchandra Kolekar
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural, Urban
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Director, CEO, COP, President
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Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research
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Social, Gender, Education, Youth, Child
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Professional Experience: |
working as Director, TESI Foundation • Overall responsibility of the Skill development project at Pune.
previously working with Swades Foundation, as a Program Associate.
• Lead the initiative by forging close relationships with government, analyzing data across wards, participating in decisions making for construction of toilets Sanitation activity.
Project Director, Shelter Associates Pune (Nov 2013 to Nov 2014) The project aims to advocate for 'one home one toilet' by producing an individual sanitation project which will challenge the Government of India's stolid sanitation policy of only providing community toilets.
Major Responsibilities:
• Overall responsibility of the project implementation includes recruiting team members, creating a project roll out plan and setting team level targets.
• Lead the initiative by forging close relationships with relevant municipal officers, analyzing data across wards, participating in decisions making for construction of toilets and solid waste management services.
• Monitoring and reporting of all the activity to the management.
Achievements:Facilitated building 500+ toilets in the communities.
Programme Coordinator, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Grampari, initiative of Initiatives of Change (IofC) Panchgani, Maharashtra. (From Jan 2012 to Oct 2013)
WASH is an initiative towards protecting public health through low cost, high impact interventions that rely on community led, locally appropriate technologies
• Kickstarting school hand washing programme, Technical, programmatic and administrative support for all aspects of the WASH programme,
• Designand oversee implementation of WASH projects such as health surveys, hygiene promotion campaigns, soak pits, latrines, bio gas plants, water filtration and solid waste management,Documentation and translation of awareness materials,
• Secondary support in other aspects of the model village programme, including watershed, livelihoods and governance, develop fundraising materials and implement team developed strategy.
Achievements: 5000 children across 50 schools and more than 200 teachers trained on the workshops and hands on training.
previously work as Programme Coordinator in SJSM Satara details as follows...
I have worked as a Programme Coordinator with ‘Shramjivi Janata Sahayyak Mandal’ (SJSM), a voluntary organisation in Satara.
I was responsible for overall projects implementation and was solely responsible for one of the sites based in Dahiwadi in Man block of Satara district.
My responsibilities included funding for this unit. The key ongoing projects were NRM, Micro finance and women Empowerment.
I was responsible for all the stages beginning with the conception of the project to need assessment, drafting project proposal, identifying the funding agencies, getting the necessary sanctions and right up to implementation. Besides monitoring, evaluation and reporting my
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Education: |
• Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A)
Specialization-Sustainable Development
Global Open University, 2010.
• Bachelor of Law (L.L.B.)
Shivaji University, 2001.
• Bachelor of Social Work (B.S.W.)
Mumbai University, 1997.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
• ‘Training in Micro Finance’ conducted by Bhartiya Agro Industries Foundation (BIAF), Pune, India (2003).
• ‘Basic Watershed Development Training’ conducted by Action for Agricultural Renewal in Maharashtra (AFARM), Pune (2002).
• Gender development training, Masum Pune and Swiss Aid India.
• ‘Sustainable development’ conducted by SJSM,Satara.
• Trainers training at SJSM,Satara.
• Organizational development and cooperative management at SJSM, Satara.
• Combating malnutrition conducted by CAPART, New Delhi (2007).
• Lean Sigma Kaizen conducted by NABARD, Pune (2010).
• Effective Leaving and Leadership by Initiatives of Change (IofC).(2012)
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Hindi, Marathi |
Nationality:
Indian
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