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Experience in Livelihoods/Community Development/Capacity Building/Inclusive Education of more than 5 years in the most remote regions of Kashmir and Ladakh along with 7 years of experience with a MNC bank. I am specifically interested in Program Mgt, Capacity Building, Monitoring and Evaluation of Education/Development projects. |
 Contact Siddharth Bose
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Area of Expertise: |
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Disaster, Aid, Emergencies, Relief
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research
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Private Sector, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Social, Gender, Education, Youth, Child
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Trade, Finance, Economics, Cooperation, Global
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Professional Experience: |
Siddharth is the recipient of numerous awards from HSBC for his proactive approach towards the internal and external clients. He was selected by HSBC and Earthwatch (U.K) for the Employee Environmental Fellowship Program, to volunteer in a Koala ecology project in Australia, along with participants from 15 countries. After, he set up a small project to raise awareness about organic farming in Ladakh, funded by Earthwatch (U.K).
Subsequent to that, he volunteered on a part time basis with the Bangalore Chapter of Lingshed Area Development Foundation, helping nuns and monks, to improve their inter personal and computer skills. Thereafter, he was selected for the Group Study Exchange program by Rotary International, to U.S.A and Canada, where he was engaged in studying the banking system there.
He then worked on a Community Based Disaster Management Project along the international line of control between India and Pakistan, in Kashmir. He actively volunteered in the relief and rescue work during the Ladakh flash floods. He was able to reach out (with the funds received from himalaya_trekkers group at Yahoo) to 10 families who were severely affected by the floods, with the basic food and clothing.
Further to that he has been working with the Lingshed Area Development Foundation, which is a community based not for profit organization and aspires on making meaningful and practical education accessible to children coming from disadvantaged families and from a very isolated and financially challenged region of Ladakh (the Trans Singe la area). This foundation endeavors to build a holistic educational platform to bring out the true human potential of every child and make the ‘Rising India’ story inclusive. He was also the Project Coordinator for a global intercultural project, between Ladakhi and Czech students. He was responsible for proposing list of suitable topics, methodology and how the internet portal could be integrated in day to day teaching.
He has recently completed a full time Master’s Program in Development (2012 – 2014) at the Azim Premji University Bangalore, India with an A Grade. During his time here he was consistently engaged in understanding the nuances of various ‘development issues’ and critically examining the various development interventions. His Master’s Dissertation was on understanding the ‘Coping Mechanisms of the ‘Changpa Nomads’ (who inhabit the cold and high altitude plateau of Changthang along the Indo Chinese Border), in the face of modernity and globalization. He further hopes to collaborate with the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council to tailor their educational policies to meet the needs of these pastoralists. Recently he was selected for the prestigious International Summer School (2014) in Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development conducted by the University of Oslo, Norway, with a full scholarship.
He is very keen to share and implement his knowledge and skills in furthering education
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Education: |
I have recently completed my M.A in Development Studies (full time) from the Azim Premji University,Bangalore, India with an A Grade. I had taken varied courses like Forest and Livelihoods, Economic History, Law and Governance, Sociology, Philosophy of Development, Gender and Education, Ecology, Social Determinants of Health, Political Philosophy, Measuring Development, Economics, Social Interventions etc. I have also recently completed a Certificate Course in Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development from the University of Oslo, Norway with an A Grade and a Full Scholarship.
My Masters Dissertation was on the Understanding the Impact of Modern Education on the Changpa Tribe of Ladakh. They live close to the Indo China Border, and this research was undertaken in very harsh conditions of high altitude and extreme cold in December 2013.
Some of the other academic projects undertaken by me are as below -
Academic Projects
1)Microfinance – Development or Destruction? – A Comparative Analysis of Grameen bank, Bangladesh and SKS Microfinance, India
2) Understanding the problem of Solid Waste Management in Bangalore
3) Biased History, Communal Subjects : Analyzing the Communal Nature of School History Textbooks (NCERT) during the regime of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and how it leads to
the production of Communal subjects
4) Gendered School, Gendered Self - Understanding the intersectionality between the hidden role of language, physical space, and segregation within a school setting, and the subsequent production of gendered educational subjects
5) Understanding the Factors which Lead to Health Inequities
6) Forest Conservation in a Neoliberal Era - Changing Contours of the State and its Impact on the Forest Dwellers
7) Has the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ sabotaged the Social Goals of Schooling?
Before this I have completed a Bachelors in Management from Bangalore University with 68 percent, and my core subjects were Marketing, Finance, Management, Business Law, French etc.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
2014 - Philosophy of Education conducted by the Azim Premji University and Manipal University.
2013 - Workshop on basic Educational Psychology, conducted by the Michigan State University, U.S.A
2010 - Agriculture based Livelihoods Opportunities and Potential, organized by Access Development Services from 17 Nov 2010 – 18 Nov 2010.
2009 - Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun from 02 Mar 2009 – 06 Mar 2009.
2009 - Workshop by Sphere in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 14 Jan 2009 – 16 Jan 2009 on Disaster Risk Reduction and Formation of Inter Agency Group.
2008 - Training on Education for Sustainable Development and Project Proposal Preparation in CEE, Ahmedabad from 08 Dec 2008 – 09 Dec 2008 by noted Environmentalist Mr. James Hindson from UK.
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
10-15 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Hindi, Bengali |
Nationality:
Indian
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