Ina Bahuguna

- Led strategic collaborations and fundraising efforts for Respun India to establish a recycler in the capital city.
- Expanded Respun’s networking in Delhi NCR, focusing on partnerships with educational institutions, societies, and corporate offices.
- Spearheaded initiatives to strengthen Respun India's presence in the waste management sector through sustainable practices and community engagement.
- Facilitated connections with key stakeholders to support Respun's growth and impact in the recycling industry.

Developed strategic networks for short-term, women-led and women-run organizations, facilitating the incubation of women entrepreneurs focused on waste management and climate change solutions. Supported initiatives that empowered women through sustainable and impactful business ventures.

• Successfully led a team of 14 direct personnel and pioneered establishment of a textile collection system across 16 wards of Bangalore. Coordinated with a team of 56 personnel, including operators, sorters, and drivers, to manage approximately 15 metric tons of textile waste monthly. I oversaw sorting, data collection, documentation, and logistics operations to ensure efficient and effective waste management processes.
• Conducted comprehensive policy research and analysis on post-consumer textile waste.
• Prepared policy briefs, reports, and recommendations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Engaged in stakeholder consultations and collaborated with government officials, NGOs, and industry representatives.
• Blog Article: https://wastenarratives.com/2023/01/26/giving-to-ourselves-a-just-transition-for-waste-pickers/

• Lead Pilot project for post-consumer textile waste in 2 wards of Bengaluru. Ensured regulatory compliance by closely monitoring applicable laws and regulations within the industry sector throughout each stage of the project life cycle.
• Developed comprehensive project plans with clear timelines, milestones, and budget requirements, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.

• Provided subject matter expertise on all courses, materials, and lesson plans for school education.
• Applied Central Government educational framework for identifying and promoting life skills from a 21st century framework.
• Prepare a database and report for Room to Read, along with an extensive literature review.

Ideal foundation works in the field of livelihood, agriculture, sustainability and climate.

• Conducted surveys, collection of data from primary and secondary sources and analysis for Policy recommendations .
• Survey results formed the basis of PIL against 'All Weather Roads' Project in Uttarakhand
• Study of Van-Gujjars is being used for their rehabilitation , and served as inputs to policy making for sustainable development of forest-dwelling nomadic tribes
• Line-managed staff within research team setting and monitoring team objectives, including identifying training requirements and performance management.

• Project Consultant for Sutra Consulting funded by UNDP for documentation of best practices in Uttarkhand 2020-2021 .
• Consultant for EHI international on the chapter on 'Migration and Urbanization' in the Economic Survey of Uttarakhand, for the Directorate of Economics and Statistics (2019)

Project Title “Study of human capacity building in natural resource based micro enterprises of Uttarakhand” for National Mission of Himalayan Studies funded by Ministry of Environment, forest and climate change under Prof. Kusum Arunachalam

• Performed strategic diagnostic research and gained in-depth understanding of testing options of human capacity building in micro enterprises
• Documentation of case studies and best practices from micro enterprises
• Submitted executive documents, reports, publication of research paper for policy recommendation
• Detailed study of agriculture based enterprises farming, horticulture, floriculture, nursery raising, dairy, apiculture, fishery, poultry, handicrafts and handlooms
• Research carried out in 11 districts of Uttarakhand (Kumaun, Garhwal) through questionnaire method of data collection
• Published research paper:

DETERMINANTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES-BASED MICROENTERPRISES PERFORMANCE IN INDIA'S WESTERN HIMALAYAN REGION: A NAÏVE BAYES CLASSIFIER ANALYSIS DETERMINANTS OF NATURAL

CRIBFB International Journal of Small and Medium Enterprises, ·Jun 24, 2023