Work Experience

• Leading Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) for a graduation program targeting the ultra-poor Paharia tribal community in remote districts of Jharkhand.

• Designing monitoring tools aligned with global Graduation program indicators and adapting them to the local context.

• Developing and institutionalizing MIS systems for real-time program performance tracking, ensuring alignment with the project’s Theory of Change.

• Training field teams to implement digital and participatory tracking tools for capturing socio-economic progress of participants.

• Integrating Social Return on Investment (SROI) metrics into program frameworks to assess long-term impact and value creation.

• Coordinating baseline surveys and establishing a robust framework for midline and endline evaluations.

• Creating culturally relevant and visually engaging IEC materials for awareness, behaviour change, and capacity-building among community members.

• Currently working on an Impact Analysis of the Integrated Pest Management Project in Bangladesh.

• Responsible for writing reports, conducting impact analysis, gathering, and organizing research data.

• Collaborating with the leadership team to design research methodologies and identify relevant questions.

• Analysing the effectiveness of the program and its impact on the agricultural sector in Bangladesh.

• Led a team in conducting Focus Group Discussions for assessing livelihood challenges in 30 Indian Sundarbans villages.

• Established rapport with local administration to ensure smooth project operations.

• Conducted interviews with key informants and wrote primary reports on findings.

• Managed a team of translators for audio recording translation into English.

• Worked on the restoration project of heritage buildings in Serampore.

• Transcription of interviews with inhabitants of the historic town centre of Serampore, Hooghly.

• Translation and designing of heritage information plaques using Adobe InDesign tool. 

• Project Title: Cost Benefit Analysis of NCRMP-II Interventions for Amphan Cyclone in West Bengal.

• Managed tasks, including questionnaire formation, translation, Kobo App development, and logistics arrangement.

• Collaborated with the project team, wrote reports, reviews, and summaries based on gathered information.

• Consultant for the Socio-cultural survey of Serampore's Historical Town.

• Managed logistics for the field team, served as an interpreter, translated interviews, and wrote a report.

• Consultancy services for a research study on Community Pool Resources in the Sundarbans islands.

• Managed logistics conducted interviews with community members, local government officials, and Joint Forest Management Committee members.

• Led the field team for conducting Rapid Rural Appraisal.

• Conducted FGDs among different sections of the community to gather insights.

• Translated the questionnaire for quantitative data collection purposes.

• Managed data entry and cleaning to ensure data accuracy.

• Prepared IEC materials, posters, maps, and process documentation for community engagement.

• Facilitated community-level interaction between the research team and stakeholders.

• Organized workshops to disseminate project findings and gather feedback.

• Led a team in constructing GPS mapping of Arsenic-contaminated groundwater sources in the study area.

• Facilitated Negotiated Approach discussions among stakeholders for groundwater conflict resolution.

• Conducted community mobilization through meetings to promote negotiated approaches in resolving groundwater conflicts among local stakeholders.

• Raised WASH awareness among community members to address water, sanitation, and hygiene issues.

• Collaborated with cross-border consortium partners to ensure project alignment and synergy.

• Conducted qualitative interviews with agrarian communities in Peri-urban Kolkata, India, and Peri-urban Khulna, Bangladesh to gather in-depth insights.

Project Webpage: http://saciwaters.org/shifting_grounds.php

• Project: Socio-Economic Study of Banana Farmers of West Bengal, funded by West Bengal State Horticulture Mission.

• Managed logistics in Murshidabad and Nadia districts of West Bengal, India, supervised data entry, performed data cleaning, and prepared the first version of project report.

• Established communication with local administration and collaborated with local bodies for MIS operation in districts of West Bengal.

• Supervised the data collection team in several districts of West Bengal to ensure quality and consistency.

• Conducted qualitative interviews with key-respondents to gather in-depth insights.

• Supervised data entry to maintain accuracy and completeness of the collected data.

• Prepared field reports to document observations and findings from the data collection process.

• Did summary statistics and prepared a preliminary report to provide initial insights and analysis from the collected data.

• Worked on the "Assessing Migrants' Health in Selected South Asian Countries (DFID sponsored)" study.

• Translated and transcribed audio-recorded interviews from Bengali to English.

• Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP) study on "The Factors Causing the Agrarian Crisis in India."

• Conducted research in four agro-ecological regions in four states.

• IWMI project for ground-truthing the calculation of Boro paddy area in West Bengal.

• Collected GPS locations of summer paddy fields, managed fieldwork data, and logistics during the project.

• Provided general assistance in administrative tasks, report writing, designing annual and monthly report booklets, and other literature published by the institution.

• Maintained the website of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.