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Anupama Gahlout, Training

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Presently working as the Senior Trainer, Anupama has extensive experience in facilitating tranings related to capacity building of teachers, curriculum, improving the quality of education and supporting the school teachers. As a program manager she has been responsible for establishment, supervision and monitoring of two community based schools for children. She has also worked as a consultant for school selection thus developing a course on leadership of school heads in various government and non-government sectors.

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Office - learninginq@gmail.com
Director - Pritha Ghosh - pritha@gen1can.com
Training - Anupama Gahlout - anupama@gen1can.com
Research - Surbhi Mahajan - surbhi@gen1can.com

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Office: 999-99-14734
Timings: 10.30AM-6.30PM
Monday - Friday

Postal Addreses

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Correspondence Address:
S-6/5 DLF Phase III, Gurgaon, Haryana – 122002

Registered Office:
2660, 2nd floor Gandhi Motor Market, Kashmiri Gate Delhi - 10006

Ratna Madhavi, ESL

2010-12-12T03:56:00.000-08:00

Content development, quality assessment and teaching functional English to grassroots workers, for publication of textual material and in the corporate environment
Indian associate of Trinity College London, as an English Language facilitator and trainer and counselor for individuals, teachers and students in various schools in Hyderabad
Research and documentation

PAST ASSOCIATIONS
WASSAN
Trinity College, London
Orient Longman, Hyderabad
Max Wealth Finance, Hyderabad
Hyderabad Council for Human Welfare
Centre for British Teachers, Hyderabad
Delhi Social Welfare Board
Kendriya Vidyalaya, ONGC, Rajahmundry. Andhra Pradesh
JJ English School, Surat, Gujrat
Plan International’s – Deepalaya Plan Program

Surabhi Singh, Research and Documentation

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SURABHI SINGH
Proposal Writing
Documentation & Knowledge Management
Campaign conceptualization, designing, implementation and documentation
Advocacy
Participatory research conceptualization and methodology.

PAST ASSOCIATIONS
National Foundation for Youth, Programme Associate, Bangalore
Women’s Resource and Advocacy Centre, Research Associate, Chandigarh
Women’s Studies Centre, Project Officer, Banasthali University, Rajasthan
Department of Sociology, Research Associate, Banasthali University, Rajasthan

PAPERS PUBLISHED
• “Women in Rajasthan: Where do We Stand” http://www.thesouthasian.org/blog/archives/2006/women_in_rajasthan_where_do_we.html
• Role of District Poverty Initiative Programme in Women’s Empowerment in Women in Management and Development, WISDOM, Banasthali University, India 2006

PAPER PRESENTATION
• ‘Next Millennium: A need for specific vision for Women Education’,National Seminar on Status of Women with special reference to Education, Banasthali University,Rajasthan, India 2000.
• ‘Relevance of Efforts regarding Women in Higher Education’, 29th All India Sociological Conference, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2003.
• ‘Trade-off between Women’s Rights and Culture’, All India Conference on Future of Sociology and Sociology of Future, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2005.
• ‘Civil Society and the Limits of Global Restructuring of Gender’, XI National Conference on Women's Studies, International Centre, Goa, India, 2005.
• ‘Role of DPIP in Women Empowerment’, National Seminar on Women in Management and Development, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India, 2006.
• ‘Globalization and Informal Sector: An Evaluation of its impact on Women’s Lives’, National Conference on Globalization through Gender Lens: Women Workers in Question, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India,2007.

Surbhi Mahajan, Research and Documentation

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Relevant Experience:
Junior Research Associate with CORD (Collaborative Research and Dissemination), New Delhi. (February 2009-July 2010). Worked on DFID (Department of Funding International Development) project RECOUP (Research Consortium on Education Outcomes and Poverty) undertaking multi-theme based studies such as Health and Fertility, Skills, Youth, Gender and Citizenship, Public-Private Partnership in Education and others. She had been involved in report writing for the theme Youth, Gender and Citizenship. More recently she had been part of the qualitative study on the public private partnerships in education with an attempt to understand the provision of education by public and private providers, drawing on the concepts of ‘school choice’, 'voice' and 'exit/entry', to examine individual behaviour within organizations that operate under the rules of the market. Job responsibilities entailed fieldwork, documentation, coding and writing analytical reports.

Recently, at the Writer’s Workshop organized internally by CORD, the team presented individual papers based on the field data. The paper focused on ‘Factors Governing School Choice and Exit’. (July 2010)

Presently, she has undertaken the responsibilities of research, documentation and marketing at LearningInq.

Mehjabeen Ansari, Executive Assistance to Team

2010-12-12T03:54:00.001-08:00

Administration and Logistics in School, Operations Audit

Relevant Experience:
Set up Administration and Logistics Department for The Hope Project Charitable Trust
Managed a 12 member Support Team
Executive Assistant to Education Advisor for 3 years
Administrative and Finance Assistance to The Project for 7 years

Pritha Ghosh, Director

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An abiding interest in how Government provisions can scale quality, despite the state of resources led to years of action research, documentation and testing across contexts. The resultant clarity of variables that render pedagogic good practices context-free or context-dependent has been the basis of the establishment of an NGO and an education consultancy company. The personal objective just as that of the two organizations remains to use the understanding of the educationally underserved first generation learner to provide quality at scale through various stakeholders and means.

Work

CURRICULA

2008 – 9 Curriculum for Whole School Improvement through School Leadership. Tested successfully in 8 Government-Aided schools in Delhi

2008 Age-free and context-free course for English fluency for teachers who are first generation speakers of English in consultation with 7 NGO partners

2004 Curriculum on non-discrimination and peace culled from dialogues with children

2003 Curriculum for schools bordering Rajaji National Park on conservation of the wild elephant

2002-2010 Curriculum in Languages, Soc. Sc.,Gen. Sc for the irregular, hard-to-reach child (PP-V)

1998-2002 Curriculum development for teachers on technology to enhance learning in school

PEDAGOGIC DIRECTION

2010 Learn Without Fear Campaign. Music Video

2010 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Uttar Pradesh –Activity Based Learning

2010 M.H.R.D, Elementary Education. By special invitation of the Jt. Secy. Education – Assessment of State Education Quality Plans for the AWP&B 2010-11(Assam, Manipur, Sikkim, U.P)

2009 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Assam – Preparation to implement the Right To Education Act

2009 -10 Establishment of the consultancy firm, Gen1Can – Strategies for First Generation Learners to address the pedagogic needs of Out Of School Children

2008 Establishment of the LearningInq schools in 2 urban slums

2007 Health & Spirituality Channel of the www.copperwiki.org portal ofwww.iwoodapple.com

2004 Film on non-discrimination. Film has won 4 International Awards.

2003 Pre Primary Workshop Series on creativity

2001-2 Advisor and coordination of the teachers section of Schoolnet India Portal

RESEARCH

2009 Impact of interventions by Navjyoti vs. Govt. on Pre Primary & Primary Education in Bawana

2008 Qualitative research on the education needs of the Savda Ghevra JJ Resettlement Colony

2008 Evaluation of the quality of the Amar Jyoti Inclusive School

2008 Needs assessment for vocational education for adolescent street children

2008 Evaluation of the Food for Education Program for adolescent street children

2008 Identification and evaluation of variables that affect quality in MCD schools

2004 PRA for Needs Assessment for capacity building on community outreach of the Association of People with Disability, Bangalore to its target group

2003 Impact Assessment of Pre Primary Curriculum of CASP PLAN community centres in Badarpur

2003 PRA for Needs Assessment for capacity building of crèche workers

1994 Theory of Mind in a sample of Autistic, MR and children with Normal IQ

DOCUMENTATION

2006 Organisational brochure for Kargil Development Program

2006 Manual on creation on education systems to mainstream children from the rag pickers’ community

2006 Manual on waste awareness curriculum for schools. Pedagogic direction

2006 European Union Grant Proposal. Was subsequently granted. Part of two-member team

2004 Workshop documentation for consultative workshops held via the GoI & ILO in Madhya Pradesh

2002 Annual Report on Girls Education Project in the State of Uttar Pradesh, CARE India

EDUCATION AUDITING & INSTITUTION BUILDING

2002- 2010 Creation of systems to implement and monitor curricular content and methodology developed by LearningInq to retain OOSC in mainstream education in Child Survival India, Salaam Balak Trust, Tejas Asia, Fabindia Pre Primary Schools, Chintan Environmental Research Group, The Hope Project Charitable Trust

2009-10 Education audit and course correction of internal communication systems and messaging to target group in Janani. All districts in Bihar. 7 districts in Jharkhand.

STATE CONSULTATIONS

2004 State Level Children’s Parliament, CREATE, Uttar Pradesh

2003 National Level Children’s Parliament, Global March Against Child Labour

NATIONAL CONSULTATIONS

2010 Senior Consultant, Technical Resource Group, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, MHRD

Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education. WIDE World (Wide-scale Interactive Development for Educators)

Assessment Strategies and Tools for Improving Student Learning - 2003

St. Xavier’s Inst. of Education, Mumbai

Counseling Psychology - 1997

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Masters in Social Work - 1996

Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi

Bachelors (Honors) in Psychology - 1994

Skills

Ability to provide overall strategic direction & management of a growing education portfolio, while continually increasing the impact of organisations’ programmes and activities, in line with budgets and the strategic goals and mission of an organisation. Ability to foster strong collaborative relationships with relevant Government, Non Government/Civil Society Organisations and private partners, ensuring a high level of strategic convergence between the organization’s and the partners’ plans, policies and programming, ensuring a high level of Government and donor interest and support for the organisation’s education programme. Ability to lead, manage, motivate and continually enhance the capacity of a diverse team of national and international professionals.