Projects:

• Flood risk perception in urban centres in India

  • Study of three metro cities Planning and conduct of research
  • Desk based review, data analysis and report writing

• Village adoption in post disaster context

  • Case studies from India Planning and conduct of research
  • Primary data collection, analysis and report writing

Responsibilities:

• Programme management and delivery

• Curriculum development, Content development and Course updation

• Online learning material development

• Academic Research

• Development of communication strategy and promotion

• Representing organization in different forums and social platforms

Achievements:

• Leading the development of free online modules of disaster management study material with the aim of promoting disaster education

• Successfully migrated the on paper student management system to ERP platform improving time efficiency of at least 3 resources

• Introduced new promotional strategies and improved presence in different social platforms - resulted in greater visibility of the programme and increase in the number of applicants

Asian Development Bank funded project with Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Responsibilities:

• Project management at client site and single point of contact

• Needs assessment and requirement analysis

• Design and conceptualization of urban flood early warning and real time monitoring system

• Review and updation of disaster management plan

• Hazard and vulnerability assessment• Guidelines for developing climate resilience of Kolkata city

• Organize and conduct capacity building workshops and training for city and state level officials, civil society organization and community

• Stakeholder engagement, project coordination and onsite staff management

• Documentation and reporting

Impact: The project is currently live and in its last phase. It was very well received.

World Bank funded project with Govt. Of India

Responsibilities:

• Qualitative assessment of SBM (G) implementation processes adopted at state & lower administrative levels

• Identification, validation and documentation of good practices for scaling up and acceleration of SBM-G implementation

Govt. of India funded project under National Mission on Education through ICT

Responsibilities:

• Review of existing courses, Needs and Gaps Assessment

• Course design and content development

Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and UNDP funded project with Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Responsibilities:

• Background research and secondary data analysis to develop hazard and vulnerability profile of NMMC

• Development of research methodology for qualitative assessment

• Data colection, collation, analysis and reporting

Disaster Damage & Loss Assessment and reporting

Responsibilities:

• Review of the current mechanism of disaster loss and damage data collection, collation and analysis at national and state level in India

• Proposing alternatives for systemizing disaster loss data collection, archiving and analysis mechanism across nation

• Development of a standardized format for disaster loss reporting to be used across India

  Impact: Provided the groundwork towards the development of disaster damage and loss database which is expected to be functional by 2020

Responsibilities:

• Quality Assurance of Claims Process (TCS BaNCS)

• Business requirement analysis and review

• Process documentation, management and training of new resources

• Log analysis and issue identification

• Process documentation and execution plan development

Corpus Access Tools for Bangla Corpus

Responsibilities:

• Web development - Java J2EE project

Impact: Compilation of the project work published in Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 42, no. 1 - 2, Jan - Dec 2016