Deepak Singh

With over21 years of programme planning and management experience across South and Southeast Asia, I have a strong understanding on structural issues related to cultural norms, a patriarchal mindset, and gender-blind policies that work as barriers to gender equality, bodily integrity and bodily autonomy of women. In my role as the South Asia Regional Programme Officer at DanChurchAid, in close collaboration with cross-cutting units, I successfully facilitated country teams,36 partners, and managed women empowerment programmes funded by the European Union, DANIDA, and DCA across India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, ensuring donor compliance and effective partnership management that raised programme budgets from $1.5 million to $10 million. As the Country Programme Manager at Cord, I maintained funding relations with the EU, the Belgian Embassy, and Provictims to strengthen the defence of human rights activists, including media persons in Cambodia. Additionally, as Team Leader at the Resource Centre for Social Action on livelihood and food security—supported by three international funding agencies—I supervised20 projects and100 staff across10 states in India to facilitate access to and control over livelihood resources for women, enhancing funding from $1 million to $3 million. My experience includes developing participatory and gender-sensitive long-term integrated action plans, conducting partner assessments, developing agreements, managing partnerships including consortium coordination, fundraising, and maintaining rigorous financial monitoring to achieve impactful outcomes. My expertise lies in facilitating stakeholder engagement, capacity building, and team collaboration to develop high-quality programme designs, context-specific needs assessments, detailed annual plans, consistent budgets, and periodic progress reports. I navigate change through strong partnership relations and accountability mechanisms by applying various monitoring and evaluation tools to achieve the objectives of the programme aligned with national and global strategies. I am a vision-driven and results-oriented professional with a passion for facilitating gender equality and protection from violence through empowerment, quality education, and policy reform to ensure that women and young people have full control over their sexual and reproductive health. I am analytical and compassionate in my approach to inspire and influence.

• ‘Theory of Change’ or Impact Monitoring and Evaluation, INTRAC, United Kingdom,2011
• ‘Do No Harm Approach’ or conflict sensitive planning & monitoring, EZE/Bread for the World-Germany,2005
• High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation (97.5%) Kellogg School of Management,2018
• Inspiring and Motivating Individuals (Marks96.4%), University of Michigan, US,2017
• Advance Business Strategy (Marks92.8%), Darden School of Business, University of Virginia,2016
• Strategic Management (Marks97.3%), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark,2016
• Lean Management for effective and efficient use of resources by DCA/TOYOTA in Nairobi and Copenhagen,2013 &2015
• PG Diploma in Ecumenical Youth Work and Management Studies by YMCA Training School Bangalore, India,1995
• Rapid need assessment within24 hours of disaster by Oxfam & OCHA,2015
• Humanitarian Response Training by DCA in Kathmandu,2014
• Campaign designing by Christian Conference of Asia, Thailand,1999
• Computer Education: Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook)

1. Dr. (Ms.) Rachel Kurian, Senior Lecturer, International Institute of Social Studies, (My M.A. Research Supervisor, and Co-Author of the article for UNESCO-CROP publication), Kortenaerkade 12, 2518 AX, The Hague, Netherlands
Email: rachelkurian.nl@gmail.com Mob: +31-6-38281148.

2. Ms. Camilla Madsen, Senior Advisor on Right to Food, DCA, Nørregade 15, 1165 Copenhagen K, Denmark,

Email: camilla65@yahoo.comMob: +45-50494719.

3. Dr. Shailendra Awale, Former Chief Coordinator, CNI-SBSS, C1/638, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana-122017 (India)
Email: shailendra.awale@gmail.comMobile: +91-9868226743.

Mr. Sunil Saran (IES), Former Finance Secretary cum Advisor, Govt. of Haryana, 7th Floor, Secretariat, Sec-1, Chandigarh, India. Mobile: 9871366120, email: sunil.saran@nic.in

• Managed a programme portfolio of $10 million in South and Southeast Asia.
• Prepared cost-effective budgets, quarterly cash flow, and monitored financial utilisation with the help of the finance team by analysing quarterly, half-yearly, and annual financial reports of the partners.
• As the budget head for all expenditures within the programme, through periodic reviews by applying econometric methods and field visits, I ensured effective budgetary planning and execution.
• Maximised utilisation by overviewing budget vs. actual fund utilisation, providing underspent funds to needy partners through a consultative process, regular capacity building, and peer support.
• Ensured that partners spent funds on agreed activities in compliance with national rules and regulations of the government and produced required documents, annual reports, and financial statements.

• Member of the Technical Reference Group of the Global Food Security Cluster of WFP/FAO (May2015 - Dec16).
• National Executive Committee Member of Sphere India (Apr2014- Feb16) and technical advisor on food security and advocacy.
• Member of the Do No Harm-Peace in South Asia coordination committee (May2005-Aug07)
• Member of the ‘Right to Food’ campaign in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh (Aug2011- Feb16).
• Governing Board Member of the Centre for Dalits and Subaltern Studies (April2015- June18)
• Member of the National Executive Committee of SCM-India (Aug1995-June97)