Ramit Basu

About Ramit Basu

As a Development Professional with more than 22 years of experience, I have worked both - full time as well as an independent consultant with CSOs, INGOs, UN agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, UN-Habitat), Government - National and State, Management Consultancy Groups, Corporate entity etc. chiefly in India and briefly in countries like Bangladesh, Kenya, Myanmar and Sierra Leone. The type of assignments handled by me as a full timer with various organizations range from ICT4D to Monitoring of Govt. Programmes, Capacity Building of Local Elected Representatives, Food and Livelihood Security, Millennium Campaign and Governance Accountability, Rural Decentralization and Devolution, Child Friendly Local Governance, Local Body Planning etc. As an independent consultant I have worked in areas like Panchayati Raj (Rural Local Government in India) reforms, Decentralized District Planning including Village Planning, Evaluation of programmes, Capacity gap assessments and Capacity Building strategies for communities, Government representatives and Civil Society Organizations, business development, strategic focus on human and social development, partnerships and resource mobilization, child rights and DRR planning, organizational profiling etc. Skills acquired: Networking and Communication, Documentation, Policy Analysis, Advocacy, Programme Management, preparing concept notes and editing, working with the Government, community mobilization, monitoring and evaluation, business development etc. I am looking ahead for more challenging oppurtunities wherein there is ample of scope to work at the programme implementation and management and advocacy level.

Experience

1. Consultant

   Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad

   Nov 2022 — Present

   Part of a core group in a National Level Study (sponsored by MoPR) on the relationship between Elected Reps. at the Panchayat level and MPs and MLAs. Provided critical inputs to the questionnaires, conducted training for field investigators, conducted field study in Rajasthan, drafted the findings as well as conceptualized the section on Dist. Plng. Committee for the final report to MoPR. Participated in discussions with MoPR and incorporated suggestions, provided feedback on inputs alongwith the core research team.

Education

• Dept. of Distance Learning, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

  Master of Arts, Public Administration

  2012 — 2015

• National Law University, Delhi and World Wide Fund for Nature

  Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law and Policy, Environmental law and policy

  2020

• Inst. of People's Science and Technology, Mahatma Gandhi Gramodaya University, Chitrakoot, MP

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Appropriate Technology

  1995 — 1999

• Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning (SCDL), Pune

  Post Graduate Diploma, Human Resource Management

  2005 — 2007

• IUCN Academy

  Certificate Course, Biodiversity Offsets in a Nature Positive World

• St. Aloysius H.S. School, Jabalpur (now Senior Secondary)

  Higher Secondary School Certificate, Science, Social Sciences, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Mathematics

  1980 — 1994

• WWF and National Law University, New Delhi

  PGD in Environmental Law and Policy, Environmental Law and Policy