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Tushar Kant UpadhyayMain Road, Buddha Colony,Patna-800 001Mobile: 09430285962E mail: [email protected]
A development professional with varied experience in Health , Nutrition and Sanitation with an quality to successfully lead a team to achieve the desired results in the most diverse situations. Has strong ability to coordinate and advocate with Government Counterparts and develop partnership with non government players and the community as well.
Working as Regional Manager CARE/BTAST (Bihar Technical Assistance Support Team)- since 4 March 2013- As part of Sector Wide Approach to Strengthen Health in Bihar (SWASTH) , providing Technical Assistance (TA) support to Government of Bihar to develop a comprehensive health sector reform , a nutrition policy and capacity building within the concerned department . The purpose of SWASTH is to increase access to better quality health, nutrition, and water and sanitation services for underserved groups. The focus of the programme is to strengthen the health system in the state through better planning, organizational strengthening, human resource management, decentralization, public private partnership and convergence among key departments.Leading a team of District Programme officers, Health coordinator , and Water and Sanitation Coordinator to successfully support seven critical districts of Bihar through the key interventions – Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day(VHSND) , Family Friendly Health Initiative, Nursing Skill Lab , Gram Varta , Uddeepan Kendras( Strengthened Nodal AWCs), Community Led Total Sanitation, Smart Water System, Gender and VAW(Violence Against women).Successfully supporting in district planning, monitoring and evaluation , situation analysis and gap assessment, capacity building and facilitating system strengthening by catalyzing sustainable regularization of District convergence forums, DWSC, Regional and District Quality Assurance Committees , resulting in better service delivery and created demands from the communities .
Worked as consultant from 21 Oct – 28th Feb 2013 with an NGO Uddeshya Bharti , a member of Voluntary Forum for Education, Bihar, and supported in developing advocacy paper on ‘Quality of Universal Education’.
Worked as District Programme officer USAID/ Vistaar Project, Intra Health International Inc, Koderma (Jharkhand) - since 16thFeb 2009 to 20th Oct 2012 –Provided technical Assistance to the government ‘to improve the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women and children under two years’ and facilitating of the training on Skill Birth Attendance and the supportive supervision of the trained SBAs by their supervisors. Have successfully provided technical assistance to the government departments on evidence- based policy advocacy, assisted the government in the system strengthening, development of the district health action plan and the convergence of the departments by formation and conduct of
the district and sub-district level monitoring committees for effective supportive supervision and feedback.
Provided leadership to the TA agency (partner NGO) for improved planning and implementation of the technical assistance interventions, monitoring and feedback of maternal and childhood nutrition programmes.
Other Areas of Major Achievements
Worked as Training Coordinator, Bihar since May 2008 for Agragami India (an affiliate of Pathfinder International): Managed all technical and quality aspects of training by leading a team of associate trainers, led the team in development of modules, identifying and coordinating with the subject matter specialist and functioned as the master trainer on RH .
Worked as Consultant with Health wing of UNICEF from April 2002 –December 2007
A. Dy. Sub Regional Coordinator (SM net for Polio) (reporting to the Polio Coordinator, Bihar) from NOVEMBER 2006 –December 2007As the SRC of Koshi Sub-Region of Bihar (consisting of Saharsa, Supaul, Madhepura and Khagaria districts) .Successfully accomplished the main responsibilities of:
Advocacy and Networking Team leadership Capacity building Leading the campaign in the sub- region Monitoring , evaluation and feedback at proper platforms
It was during this period that all the stakeholders like Social Mobilization Network of UNICEF, NPSP, IAP, Health, ICDS and WASH of the Government of Bihar developed a synergistic approach towards the campaign and the required output of reaching the unreached and issue of refusal to the campaign was addressed successfully. .
B. Social Mobilization Coordinator, Samastipur and Patna(January 2005- November 2006)
Provided leadership to the team of Block Mobilization Coordinators for the development of community ownership of the Polio Eradication campaign and Routine Immunization.
Development of issue based effective partnership which proved crucial in addressing the refusal among the underserved communities towards the Polio Campaign.
Development of communication plan, monitoring and feedback
On Assignments with UNICEF (From April 2002-November 2004)
A. Resource Person
Inter departmental convergence on Polio and Routine Immunization Capacity building of Village Education Committees to mobilize the communities
for improvement of the ownership towards Polio campaign.
B. Support Short Term Advisor
Facilitated the orientation of the Medical Officers and health staff at different level for preparation of micro-plans for Polio Campaign
Assisted the Validation of the data of East and West Singhbhoom districts of Jharkhand for Border District Cluster Strategy (BDCS).
Facilitated the preparation of micro-plan for Special Immunization of 11 PHCs of Madhubani district and 9 PHCs of Supaul district and provided technical support to team.
Project Officer, MVD Foundation, and Patna July 1997-April 2002 Implemented the project in Buxar district of Bihar, to identify and educate the clusters of marginalized, excluded and underserved communities.
Coordinator, Handicraft, Gram Shakti (an NGO) (1992 August –July 1997) Led the organization in identifying the potential art and craft forms in the rural Bihar.
Other Major Areas of Experience and Association Research fellow in project ―SANTALS‖ funded by Action-Aid (1990-92)
Educational Qualification
PG Diploma in Public Health Nutrition (e learning mode) from Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi - January 2011- July 2012
Master’s in Rural Development, IGNOU, New Delhi) – 2008 Certificate in HIV/AIDS and Family Education – 2006 Bachelor of Science, Magadha University, Bodh- Gaya – 1985
Training:
Whole Person Process Facilitation, 2009 Master trainer’s On IPC and supportive Supervision Trained in Genuine Contact Organization, 2011
Fellowship:
LDM fellowship (RH Fellow) from IIE (Packard fellow) 2010
Publications:
Various articles and abstracts published in Journals and newspapers on Reproductive Health and Nutrition in Impressions (an RH fellow’s magazine),
An article on ‘Introduction, gaps and mitigation strategy’ policy paper on Nutrition for the GOB (Women Development Corporation , Bihar ) .
Presented paper on community Nutrition in a Seminar organized in joint collaboration of Ranchi University and Indian Anthropological Society.
Several stories and essays on social issues published in Hindi in newspapers and magazines.
Poster presentation at 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights, at Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 22-23 October , 2011.
Stories in Hindi and Bhojpuri published in various magazines and newspapers. One Bhojpuri story is being taught as part of MA (Bhojpuri) curricula at Veer Kunwar Singh University , ARA , Bihar
Personal Details
Date of Birth-- 30th April 1963Civil Status -- Married with two daughtersNationality ---Indian Languages -- Hindi, EnglishSpecial Interest— Indian classical and devotional music, Literature and Travel
References
Mr. Sanjay Pandey Health Specialist, Country Director , PFI,New Delhi M- 09871648844 [email protected]
Dr.Sujeet Ranjan, Ph.D.Chief Operating OfficerMobile: +91 9013623445 | Direct: +91 120 4787431 | Board: +91 120 4787400Skype: sujeetranjan [email protected]
