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K. J. Joy |
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K. J. Joy
has a Master's degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has been an activist-researcher for
more than 20 years and has a special interest in people's institutions
for natural resource management both at the grassroots and policy
levels. His other areas of interests include drought and drought
proofing, participatory irrigation management, river basin management
and multi-stakeholder processes, watershed based development,
water conflicts and people’s movements. He was a Visiting
Fellow with Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment
and Development (CISED), Bangalore for a year and was a Fulbright
Fellow with University of California at Berkeley. Currently he
has been coordinating the following three collaborative initiatives:
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Multi-locational, Multi-disciplinary Research,
Capacity Building and Advocacy on Watershed Development
in Dry and Semi-Arid Regions of India, a research project
of SOPPECOM, CISED, Bangalore and Gujarat Institute of Development
Studies (GIDR), Ahmedabad; |
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Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts
in India, an initiative of 10 partner organisations; and |
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STRIVER, a collaborative research project
of 13 institutions across the globe. |
He has co-authored the following books:
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Sustainable Technology: Making Sardar Project Viable; |
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Banking on Biomass: A New Strategy for Sustainable
Prosperity Based on Renewable Energy and Dispersed Industrialisation; |
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Watershed Based Development: A Source Book; |
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Panlot Kshetra Vikasachya Navya Disha: Sadhan
Saksharata, Shashvat Vikas, Samanyayi Vatap (Marathi); |
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Sustainable Prosperity: Sustaining and Enabling Natures
Productive Powers; |
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Water: Sustainable and Efficient Use; and Striya Ani
Pani: Badalte Natesambandh (Marathi). |
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Suhas Paranjape |
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Suhas Paranjape
has a B.Tech (Chem) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Has actively participated in different movements like People's
Science Movement, Adivasi agricultural labourers' movement, etc.
Has participated as a core team member and consultant in many
action research studies and pilot projects undertaken by Centre
for Applied Systems Analysis in Development (CASAD) and Society
for Promoting People's Participation in Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM),
Pune in the areas of participatory management of natural resources
specially in the field of participatory irrigation management.
For three years from 1996 to 1999 worked as a core team member
of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS) in its watershed development
project across the country.
He has co-authored the following books:
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Sustainable Technology : Making Sardar Project
Viable (Centre for Environment Education Ahmedabad, 1995); |
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Banking on Biomass : A New Strategy for Sustainable
Prosperity Based on Renewable Energy and Dispersed Industrialisation
(assisted the author K. R. Datye; (Centre for Environment
Education Ahmedabad, 1997); |
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Watershed Based Development : A Source Book
(Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, New Delhi, 1998); |
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Panlot Kshetra Vikasachya Navya Disha : Sadhan Saksharata,
Shashvat Vikas, Samanyayi Vatap (Marathi, Co-authored with
Suhas Paranjape), Maharashtra Council of Agricultural Education
and Research (MCAER), Pune, |
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Two booklets: Sustainable Prosperity: Sustaining and
Enabling Natures Productive Powers; and Water: Sustainable
and Efficient Use (Centre for Environment Education Ahmedabad,
2004). |
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Seema Kulkarni |
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Seema Kulkarni
holds MA degree in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai.
She has over ten years of experience of working in drought prone
rural areas of Maharashtra. Her key area of interest within SOPPECOM
is Gender and Natural Resource Management. Here the effort has
been primarily on making the Irrigation and Drinking water sectors
gender inclusive. The other area in which she works is on the
question of rural deserted women and their livelihoods.
She was associated with the women’s movement in Sangli district
of Maharashtra working on issues of the peasant women. She is
presently the co-ordinator of the Women and Water Network which
focuses on gender concerns in the water sector. She has authored
the booklet Intensive Cultivation on Small Plots, (SOPPECOM, Pune
and Maitreyi, Mumbai, 2001). She has also contributed several
articles for various journals and conferences on gender and rural
livelihoods.
She has authored and co-authored the following:
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Intensive Cultivation on Small Plots, (SOPPECOM,
Pune and Maitreyi, Mumbai, 2001). |
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Women Water and Livelihoods (SOPPECOM 2007). |
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Senior Advisors |
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S. N. Lele |
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S. N. Lele
holds a B. E. Civil degree in Engineering from the Pune University.
Retired from Government service, Maharashtra Irrigation Department
as Chief Engineer in 1987. Since then working as Irrigation Management
Consultant. Has required experience in Participatory Irrigation
Management (PIM). Twelve years experience as consultant working
with the World Bank (local consultant), WAPCOS India Ltd., AFC,
STUP Consultants, SOPPECOM, LBI-WAPCOS. Responsible for preparing
Master Plan for O & M for Upper Krishna Project in Karnataka
World Bank Projects (identification and appraisal of WRCP) in
Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Bihar and Haryana. Team member from SOPPECOM
and WAPCS for preparing PIM Manuals for Maharashtra and Goa and
suggested improvements and amendments in Irrigation Act for facilitating
PIM. Initiated farmers managed system through Action Research
Programme in Maharashtra. Experience of irrigation management
consultant in training consultancy for WRCP Orissa (World Bank
aided Project).
Co-authored the book "Farmer Participation in Irrigation
Management : A Case Study of Maharashtra" and has also contributed
many papers and articles on this subject to many seminars and
journals. It also has members who have been part of World Bank
sponsored studies on Water Sector.
For example Shri S. N. Lele had worked as local consultant with
World Bank in preparing Water Resource Consolidation Projects
in Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Haryana. He has also taken part in Bihar
Minor Irrigation Plateau Project (Now in Jharkhand) and Bihar
Public Tube Well Project. For this he worked with Shelada Consultant
and STUP Consultant in Orissa WRCP Project as consultant (Training
consultancy) to assist and guide Orissa WRD in implementing with
WRCP project, 4 years. He had also worked with WAPCOS in preparing
the AP III Irrigation Project involving Shri Sailesh Right Bank
Canal.
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S. B. Sane |
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S. B. Sane
holds M. E. degree in Water Resources Development from the University
of Roorkee, India - a central university catering for Afro Asian
countries. Working since 1993 on farmers' participation in irrigation
management, organising farmers into Water Users' Associations
(WUAs), finalising Bye-laws and MoUs between Government and WUAs,
training of farmers in O & M of the tertiary irrigation system,
providing assistance to WUAs in increasing water use efficiency
for increasing productivity and production. Has worked as an Associate
Professor in WALMI, Aurangabad. Has long experience of 45 years
in various aspects of irrigation works, namely, planning, designing,
construction and operation and management.
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R. K. Patil |
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R. K. Patil
holds M. A. degree and post-graduate diploma from John Hopkins
University, USA. Headed Project Formulation Cell (Irrigation)
of Maharashtra Government. Was Expert Consultant to Maharashtra
State Government in their negotiations with the World Bank. Initiated
16 Water Users' Associations (WUAs) in Mula Irrigation Project
under the umbrella of SOPPECOM. Active participation in water
management seminars held in China, Sri Lanka and Mexico. Was a
member of the SOPPECOM team, which prepared the document "Amendment
to Irrigation Act for Participatory Irrigation Management"
for the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India. Co-authored
the book "Farmer Participation in Irrigation Management:
A Case Study of Maharashtra" and has also contributed many
papers and articles on this subject to many seminars and journals.
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Vilas Gore |
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Vilas Gore,
52 years of age is a practicing consultant for more than 25 years
advising on Water Resource Projects and Engineered Bamboo –Wood
Technologies for Infrastructure Development
He is a member of the:
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Maharashtra India Chapter of American Concrete
Institute |
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Indian Science Congress |
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International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
for:
Bamboo building codes for ISO
Steering committee on bamboo scaffoldings at Hong Kong
Bamboo based infrastructure projects for Mizoram, Tripura,
Uttaranchal and Manipur. |
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Western Regional Committee of the Centre for Environment
and Education on small grants projects of the UNDP |
He has been associated with buildings, roads and water technology
development projects. These projects have been supported by the
DST, Ford Foundation, Community Aids Abroad, CAPART.
Publications and Research Experience
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Guidelines to Design and Construction of over
flow Timber Gabions, 1988 |
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Guidelines to Design and Construction of Self
Supporting Ferrocement Roof Covers, 1989 |
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Technology for watershed development, A compendium
of case studies 1992 |
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Lining of Ponds and Reservoirs-Indian Experiences, 5th
International Conference on Geotextiles and Geomembranes,
Singapore, 1994. |
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Role of Advances in Materials Technologies in Optimisation
of Biogas Plants, the International Conference on Biomass
Energy Systems 1996, New Delhi. |
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Innovative Designs of Wood-Bamboo-Brick Composites, 5th
World Conference on Timber Engineering, Switzerland, 1998. |
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Consultants |
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Abraham Samuel |
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Shruti Vispute |
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Shruti Vispute is a graduate in Political Science from Fergusson College, Pune and has a postgraduate degree in Environmental Politics from School of Politics, International Relations and Environment at University of Keele, England and M. Phil. in Political Science from University of Pune, Pune. Her research arenas explore the phenomenon of water conflicts in India, gender issues in water sector, development politics, and environmental activism especially around water issues. She has written for the popular press on contemporary socio-political issues, feminist issues, women’s movements.
She was fully engaged with SOPPECOM since last four years and presently she is working as consultant and is involved in the work of Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India.
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Research Assistants
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Ravi Pomane |
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Ravi Pomane
is a graduate in Geography from University of Pune and postgraduate
in social work (URCD)at Karve Institute of Social Service, Pune,
having 8 years experience in development of research tools, coordinate
the fieldwork, surveys, data entry and processing also assisted
in the data analysis and report writing.
His major assignments relevant to the project are:
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Biomass Assessment Study of Murbad (Thane
district) and Sangameshwar (Ratnagiri district) Tehsils
Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (New Delhi)
and MEDA. |
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A study on Tail-ender Deprivation In Irrigation
Commands supported by the Planning Commission and the Wageningen
University, Netherlands (2002) |
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Energy-Water Co-management Opportunities and
Challenges in the Tembu Lift Irrigation Scheme, Atpadi Taluka
(Sangli district) |
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The Ozar Water User Societies: Impact of Society Formation
and Co-management of Surface Water and Groundwater. |
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Mainstreaming Rights of Deserted Women - A livelihood
study of deserted women from Sangli district. |
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Study “Watershed Development in Maharashtra: Present
Scenario and Issues for Restructuring the Programme” |
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Rapid Assessment Study of watershed Development Projects
in Maharashtra" |
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Working on the project, Multi-locational, Multi-disciplinary
Research, Capacity Building and Advocacy on Watershed Development
in Dry and Semi-Arid Regions of India, a collaborative research
project of SOPPECOM-GIDR-CISED. |
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Also has knowledge of PRM for Resource literacy training |
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Wrote two case study in The Compendium of Case Studies
on Water Conflicts in India Carried out by Forum For Policy
Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India. |
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Presently, he is associated with the Gender unit in two of its ongoing projects related to capacity building of women committee members of Water Users Associations and mapping social and gender inequities in Maharashtra.
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Sneha Bhat |
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Sneha Bhat
has completed her MA in Sociology and Diploma in Women’s
Studies from University of Pune. She has four years of work experience
in the development sector. Currently she is working as Senior
Research Assistant with SOPPECOM. In last three years she has
been part of two major studies done by SOPPECOM,
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Water Rights as Women’s
Rights:assessing the scope for women’s empowerment
through decentralized water governance in Maharashtra
and Gujarat supported by IDRC |
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Hindola (The Swing): Assessing extent and nature of desertion
in Daund taluka and Ghole road ward of Pune city. |
Currently she is involved in two research projects,
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Situational analysis of women
water professionals in South Asia |
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Interface between gender, water and poverty |
Apart from these major studies she has been working on other short
term projects and outreach and training activities undertaken
by Gender Rights Unit of SOPPECOM.
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Raju Taywade |
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Raju Taywade is a graduate in Social work (BSW) from Collage of social work, Amravati and completed his postgraduate in social work (URCD) from the same Collage. He has three years experience in Watershed and NRM related research projects. His work profile includes conducting and coordinating field surveys for data collection. He is also involved in methodological development of research tools, data compilation and processing. He also assisted in the data analysis and report writing part of the projects.
His major assignments are:
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Rapid Assessment Study of watershed Development Projects in Maharashtra" |
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Working on the project, Multi-location, Multi-disciplinary Research, Capacity Building and Advocacy on Watershed Development in Dry and Semi-Arid Regions of India, a collaborative research project of SOPPECOM-GIDR-CISED. |
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Impact Assessment of Watershed Development Projects, in selected districts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. This project was Supported by National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD). |
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Presently, he is involved in LiveDiverse project study of Warana basin |
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Suchita Jain |
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Suchita Jain has completed her post graduation in Applied Geology from Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwa Vidhyalaya, Sagar. She has worked as a Research Fellow with Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad and having more than 5 years' research experience in the field of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System. She has worked on Coastal Vulnerability Mapping Project along the Indian Coast and also the Landuse/ Land-cover Mapping Project in the parts of Uttar Pradesh using RS/GIS techniques. She has been part of three major studies done by SOPPECOM
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Multi-locational, Multi-disciplinary Research
and Outreach on Watershed Development in Dry and Semi-Arid
Regions of India |
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Developing an agro-eco region based approach for characterization
of wastelands and their potential for enhancing livelihoods
of marginalised rural population in the ongoing land based
developmental programs in the region |
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Multilayer Planning and Management of Water Resources in Bharar River Sub basin, Chattarpur District, Madhya Pradesh |
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Currently she is involved in:
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LiveDiverse: Sustainable Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Developing Countries, a collaborative, European Union supported project.(2009 ongoing) |
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Vinit Raskar |
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Vinit Raskar has done B.Sc. (Geology) from Fergusson College, Pune and P.G.B.Sc. (Applied) in GIS and Remote Sensing from Department of Geoinformatics, Pune University. He has worked at Cybertech System and Software limited, Mumbai as GIS analyst on different GIS platform like ArcGIS Desktop 9.2, ArcGIS Server 9.2 and ArcIMS 9.2.
He has more than two years of experience in research field, more specifically in GIS and Remote Sensing technology .Also he has been associated with Gujarat Institute of Development and Research (GIDR), Ahemadabad, Gujarat for some assignments
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Assessing the Impacts of Watershed Projects in Ratlam (M.P.):A Post facto
Analysis. |
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Impact Assessment of Watershed Development Interventions for Selected
Sites in Netrang: Analysis Based on Remote Sensing Data. |
Currently he is involved in
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RS-GIS application of LiveDiverse project: Study of Warna Basin, Maharashtra. |
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Kiran Lohakare |
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Kiran Lohakare is a graduate in Cost and Works Accounting from University of Pune and post graduate in social work (URCD) from Karve Institute of Social Service, Pune.
He has worked with Gram Gourav Pratisthan / Pani Panchayat on Participatory Irrigation Management project. He has about 1 years experience in coordinating the fieldwork, surveys, data entry and processing. He also assisted in the data analysis and report writing during his work.
His major assignments relevant to the project are:
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Impact Assessment of Watershed Development Projects, in selected districts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. This project was Supported by National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) |
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Presently, he is working on LiveDiverse project i. e. Livelihood and biodiversity study of Warana basin, South-western Maharashtra India. |
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Project Assistants |
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Archana Bhokase |
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Archana Bhokase did her graduation in Commerce from Arts, Science and Commerce College, Pune. She is more than six years experience in data entry and data analysis.
She is working with SOPPECOM since last one and half year and mostly involved in data entry work for various projects.
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Kshitija Gosavi |
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She is working as Administrative support for the Gender unit. Kshitija has been with the gender unit of SOPPECOM since March 2010 on a part time basis. She is in charge of the administrative tasks of the gender unit specifically to manage the accounts and resources of the unit. She is also responsible for data entry, translations, and other odd administrative duties within the unit. She has a longstanding experience of dealing with organizational accounts and budgets. |
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Administrative Officer |
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Pratima Medhekar |
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Pratima Medhekar is associated with SOPPECOM since 1991 and she is holding daily
administrative duties since then. Apart from the administrative
management in SOPPECOM she looks after the accounts section. She
helps in the coordination of seminars, workshops organized by
SOPPECOM and data analysis in the studies, projects.
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Administrative Assistants |
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Ashwin Madhale |
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Ashwin has done his B. Com. from University of Pune, Pune. He helps with
the daily administrative duties in the office and also assists
in the coordination of the workshops and seminars.
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Tanaji Nikam |
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Tanaji Nikam is entering in his graduation course. His duties are mostly to see the SOPPECOM library, to look at the daily office management work and to assist at seminars/workshops etc
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Ex-staff members |
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Eshwar Kale |
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Eshwer Kale worked with SOPPECOM from to .
He is a student of Master in Social Work with specialization in Rural and Urban Community Development from Karve Institute of Social Services, Pune. His interests include Training and Program Management in Rural and Urban Community Development. He is also involved in several community development programmes at state level. He was mostly involved in Forum for Watershed Research and Policy Dialogue (ForWaRD).
Presently he is pursuing M. Phil. from TISS, Mumbai.
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Raju Adagale |
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Raju Adagale is a graduate in Economics and has his Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Pune. He has more than 9 years experience in development research.
His major assignments and involvement are in the areas related to land, water and renewable energy. He has been involved in several study / research projects which were taken up by SOPPECOM so far. He was also part of the Natural Resource Management (NRM) initiatives and resource mapping exercises in collaboration with some of the local NGOs in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. He worked on various projects e. g. , Multi-locational, Multi-disciplinary Research, Capacity Building and Advocacy on Watershed Development in Dry and Semi-Arid Regions of India, a collaborative research project of SOPPECOM-GIDR-CISED. Simultaneously, he was also involved in documenting the case of ‘Ek Gaon Ek Panvatha Campaign’ as part of a larger study of Social Movement around Water in India. He has conducted few training programmes on solid waste management for the members of the Solid Waste Collection and Handling (SWaCH) in Pune city.
He was working with SOPPECOM for more than nine years. Presently he is pursuing Ph. D. from TISS, Mumbai.
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