Divya Sharma

• Committed to fostering inclusive growth through effective program design, M&E, ensuring alignment with community needs and HDFC Banks Ltd.’s CSR goals.
• Advocating for equitable development, leveraging data-driven insights to enhance project outcomes & sustainability.
• Leading the planning & execution of multiple CSR projects, focusing on social development themes such as Skill Development, Health & Sanitation, Livelihood, Natural Resource Management, Reduction in carbon foot printing through renewable energy and education.
• Continuously establishing and maintaining partnerships with key stakeholders, including government agencies at ground level, NGO’s, business & branch heads at HDFC Bank Ltd and community leaders, fostering collaboration to enhance project reach and effectiveness
• Managing project budget portfolio of up to 30 Crores, ensuring efficient resource allocation and adherence to our internal & general CSR financial guidelines, leading to effective project designing without compromising project quality.
• Committed to fostering inclusive growth through effective program design, M&E, due diligence of partners, stakeholder management in supervisory capacities and ensuring alignment with community needs & HDFC Banks Ltd.’s Parivartan (CSR) goals.
• Robust and regular monitoring through working on defining indicators for measurable impact and creating a feedback mechanism to improve program implementation and output.
• Comprehensive project documentation, impact reports and presentation for internal and external stakeholders
• Capacity building and hand-holding support to implementing agencies for enhancing their skills and knowledge in the exhaustive Parivartan formats.
• Innovated strategies for project sustainability, enabling the continuation of initiatives beyond funding periods, and explored scalability options for various services created throughout the project period.
• Proposed innovative projects based on need of the areas such as projects on menstruation, mental health and education for slum children.
• Working in convergence with multiple teams across HDFC Bank’s CSR team for developing and upgrading CSR policy, strategy, operations & partnerships of the Bank.

Water:

• Actively participated in the initiative towards water conservation and generating livelihood, 200+ Bora Bandh constructed in the district with locally available resources, community participation and the principle of Reuse, Reduce and Recycle
• Initiative received National Water Award under Jal Jivan Mission (JJM) and 65th Skoch Award
• Initiated the process of mapping the availability of drinking water sources across 749 villages in the district with the aim to provide each household with proper drinking water

Education:

• Initiated the programme - “Sapno ko Udaan” where 30 selected science students from the 5 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya’s (KGBV) in the district undergo proper 2 years’ rigorous coaching for Engineering/Medical entrance examination with the aim to join the top colleges across India
• Extended the programme to - “Sapno ko Udaan 2.0” where the current batch of standard 12th arts students will be pooled into ITI/ANM trainings with 100% assured placements
• Also, research on arts institutes like JNU, BHU, etc across India is under process for the upcoming arts batches of KGBVs
• Counselled and linked 60 rescued girls to PAN-IIT’s training institute for ITI/Nursing training with 100% assured placements; Regular counseling of students from humble backgrounds to align them with various on-going educational programmes in the district

Health:

• Proposed the following against the 3 cr award money received by the district from NITI Aayog for securing 5th position in its delta ranking:

- 2 Mobile Health Units for far-reaching villages of the district which do not have proper health facilities in their vicinity

- Regular ambulance facility at block level for immediate to-and-fro movement of patients

- Procurement of equipments such as radiograph, x-ray machine, endograph, etc

- For taking the health facility at the district up a notch; Introduction of Telemedicine at ANM level

- Worked extensively for COVID relief by setting up check-up camps, procuring and distributing of relief kit to every HH.

Miscellaneous:

• Regular documentation, data reporting and analysis of Key Performance Indicators of NITI Aayog and subsequently the district
• Organized educational events and counseling sessions for students on a regular basis
• Written the bye-laws for Khunti Health Club

• Responsible for rapid Farm Development in 3 districts of Odisha
• Overall farm development activities increased by 15%; 86% of the targets for the first year realized
• Capacity building of Krushi Mitras regarding farm development activities and training to community mobilizers
• Responsible for organizing training on Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure Scheme of Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, GoI in coordination with National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM)

• 101% of target realized for 2 consecutive years; 3.8L candidates mobilized under DDU-GKY, Odisha during the FYs 2017-2019
• Capacity building of stakeholders through refresher trainings, ToTs & project awareness workshops.
• Collaboration with Evidence for Policy Design under JPAL and IFMR for research on appropriate mobilization structures, improvement in placement & retention outcomes and block saturation under DDU-GKY.
• Responsible for onboarding of NGOs for carrying out post placement activities of ORMAS at Bengaluru and Haryana; Increase in retention of the beneficiaries at their workplace by 8% from FY 2016-2017 to FY2018-2019
• Organized 2 ‘Skilling in Odisha’ conclaves for placements and post placement related dialogue among the stakeholders of the programme; Organized 2 Alumni Meets for recognizing the DDU-GKY candidates.
• Responsible for overall M&E of 3 Project Implementing Agencies working with ORMAS.

A study on CSR of TATA Steel with special reference to healthcare services in the East & West Singhbhum districts of Jharkhand

• Developed questionnaire for corresponding with the target audience; Conducted survey for understanding whether the interventions are benefitting the target audience.
• Extensive visit to the Hospitals/Clinics/Mobile Health Centers where the doctors and paramedics met with the rural/urban patients; Interacted with the local people to perceive and identify the knowledge they have about the interventions of Tata Steel.