Madhusmita Brahma

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I started as a lifeskill trainer becoming the core member of the WAY Foundation to lead various decisions and strategies of the organisation. As a member, I played a vital role in doing need assessment of the adolescents influencing more than 1000 direct beneficiaries through schools of Assam. I continue to be part of the organization in a personal capacity and extend my support in terms of designing projects, mapping relevant resources, capacity building and trainings, strategy and onboarding partners.

• As a State Lead-Public Policy,I have successfully co-authored a recommendation paper on best practices of government welfare schemes, specifically for the flagship scheme of MGNREGS in North-East India with a special focus on the livelihood generation of the women beneficiaries via the women SHGs.
• I have also liasoned with the district and state government to make government services available to about 6000 beneficiaries of Assam under several Direct Beneficiary Transfer Schemes.
• One of my major achievements in the project is that I have facilitated the increase in the number of AADHAAR - Job Card seeding by 4% in Jorhat District of Assam which is a national target of India.
• As a State Lead, my role extends to monitoring, making strategy, collaboration and relationship management, team management,capacity building and recommend policy improvements for various government schemes to the State Government.

• As a Project Manager of the North East Region of India, I was responsible for implementation of projects of 3 verticals (Education, Sustainability, Livelihood) of Barefoot College International in the region in collaboration with donors like Starbucks, Apple, ReNew Power and several other grassroots organization across India.
• Under the scope of my role, I was able to deliver gender awareness, awareness of sustainability, WASH, Social Emotional Learning and Digital and Financial Literacy among 10000 beneficiaries from some of the most vulnerable communities of Assam through curriculum and contents (audio-visual and workbooks) developed by BCI team lead by me.
• I had onboarded 13/44 organizations to work on Covid-19 relief by distributing Oxygen Concentrators and Medicines in Hospitals of remote Assam, provided basic food items and spread awareness on Covid safety benefitting more than 100000 people across India.
• BCI's target beneficiary were the women from the most marginalized communities like the villages with no electricity, where women are trained to become a solar sakhi and generate income. The Tea Gardens of Assam were a prime focus of the implementation of the BCI projects as the community faces challenges like Gender Based Violence, Child Marriage, Drop outs from school, trafficking, alcoholism to name a few.

• As a Grassroots Campaigner, I co-led the campaign Health Over Stigma (HOS) and Initiated dialogues on safe and non-judgmental access to SRHR services among the young women.
• I led the volunteer group of Colleges (8-10 Colleges) in Delhi for the campaign and took care of the on-boarding, engagement and management of the young volunteers known as HOS defender.