Dudheshwar Kumar has over 15 years of experience in program management, community mobilization, livelihood promotion, microfinance, and monitoring and evaluation. He has worked with organizations such as IPE Global, Invest India Micro Pension Services, Access Development Services, and BASIX. Currently he is a Livelihood Expert with IPE Global working on their SPUR program in Bihar, where he provides technical support for activities such as community institution building, livelihood development, financial inclusion, and WASH promotion.

1. Dudheshwar Kumar
Colony No-7, Post- Sarubera
Distt-Ramgarh, Jharkhand
Voice: +91 9386591487/ 09771403414
Email: dudhesh@gmail.com
D.O.B: 7th
April 1980
Skills and Competency
• WASH- Promotion of Individual Toilets, community toilets, hand wash and personal
hygiene.
• Networking, Liaison, and Partnership management
• Program management and establishment of monitoring and evaluation system
specifically in the area of livelihoods, micro enterprises development, financial
inclusion, Financial Literacy and community mobilization.
• Training and capacity building.
Key Professional Achievements:
WASH in Urban Areas:
• Provided techno managerial support in preparation of slum level micro planning
WASH.
• Provided support in development of IEC material on WASH and Community
Institutions.
• Provided training inputs to community institution for construction of eco friendly
toilets and community based construction.
• Strategized the facilitation process on site construction to the community through
expert engineers and social practioners.
• Provided technical support for capacity building of community institutions for
WASH.
Community Institution Building, Strengthening of community processes and linkages
• Developing livelihood plan for 28 ULBs in Bihar
• Conceptualisation and development of community structures like Neighbourhood
Groups (NHG), SHGs, SVS (Samuhik Vikash Samiti), Area/ Slum level Federation
(ALF), Town Level Federation (TLF) and State Level Federation
• Facilitated linkages of 1540 SHGs for Revolving Fund (RF) under NULM (RF of 1500
SHG have distributed so far)
• Capacity building of 790 Slum Level Community Institutions commonly known as
Samuhik Vikash Samiti (SVS) and their registration under Society Registration Act.
• Preparation of Business development plan for the potential livelihood activities.
Monitoring and evaluation
• Designed a robust monitoring system for tracking the performance of partners on
various parameters. Implementation of online monthly monitoring system.
• Designed performance tracking system for SHGs.
• Managed large scale Baseline survey of 45 towns.
• Collection and managing large scale data from 45 Towns.
Capacity Building and trainings
• Designed various capacity building manual, monitoring formats for the partner
organisation and community organisation.

2. • Prepared operational plan and guideline for implementation of Swaran Jyanti Sahri
Rojgaar Yojana (SJSRY) and NULM for Urban Local bodies (ULBs like Municipal
Corporation / Nagar Panchayats) in context of Bihar.
Coordination, Networking and liaison:
• Coordination with 28 Urban Local Bodies (ULB) of Bihar for better implementation of
SPUR and NULM.
• Coordination with 15 NGO partners for better implementation of project.
• Liaison with Urban Development and Housing Department, Bihar; State Level
Banker’s Committee, various banks 28 ULBs, other government departments like SC&
ST welfare department, MSME Bihar, BUIDCo etc.
Techno managerial support, Budget Planning and strategic planning/ inputs
• Provide Techno managerial support to ULBs and 15 NGO partners in implementation
of community mobilization towards building of sustainable community structures in
urban slums.
• Successful implementation of ECS (Electronic Clearance System) mode of contribution
in National Pension System (NPS-Lite)
Professional Experience
Present Employer:
Infrastructure Professionals Enterprise Pvt. Ltd. (IPE Global), www.ipeglobal.com
SPUR (Support Programme for Urban Reform), Bihar popularly known as Support
Programme for Urban Reforms in Bihar (Samvardhan) is a six-year partnership programme
(2010-2016) between the Government of Bihar and the DFID. The programme envisages that
effective urban centres in Bihar would play a significant role in economic growth and poverty
alleviation. Cities would serve as nuclei for greater economic activity and services to enable
contribution to pro-poor development. The programme goal is to promote economic growth
and significantly accelerate poverty reduction in state by 2016.
Designation: Livelihood Expert (April 2010- till date)
The key responsibilities are:
• To provide technical inputs for the shaping of community structure like NHGs, SHGs,
SVSs and self sustained Federation.
• To formulate strategies for active involvement of the community groups into the
micro planning process.
• To provide technical inputs in preparation Integrated Micro planning Report (IMR)
and Detail Project Report (DPR) ensuring community participation for basic
infrastructure in the slums.
• To provide technical inputs for ensuring the community participation in community
based operation and maintenance (O&M) of infrastructure.
• To provide techno managerial support in preparation of slum level micro planning
WASH.
• To provide support in development of IEC material on WASH and Community
Institutions.
• To provide training inputs to community institution for construction of eco friendly
toilets and community based construction.
• To strategize the facilitation process on site construction to the community through
expert engineers and social practioners.
• Provided technical support for capacity building of community institutions for
WASH.

3. • Formulating long term livelihood strategy for the economic growth and poverty
alleviation
• To provide technical inputs in designing formats for SHG Livelihood Profiling, SHG
grading, SHG Books of Records, Slum Livelihood Micro planning, Micro Credit
Plan, and Livelihood proposals (Individual and group enterprises)
• Establishing a good coordination with State Level Bankers Committee and 12 lead
banks of Bihar for financial linkages (Saving and credit) of SHGs and preparing
strategy for ensuring coordination between bank and community (Self Help Group).
• Establishing good coordination with 28 ULBs of Bihar for better implementation of
NULM and releasing of revolving fund to the eligible SHGs.
• Providing strategic inputs for the assessment of the schemes of social entitlements and
making strategies to make them accessible for the slum dwellers in coordination with
ULB and other departments.
• Identifying training needs, designing training modules and imparting training for
different stake holders like representative of community structures, NGO staff, ULB
members, and cluster level staff.
• Handholding support to 15 implementation partners, their supervision and monitoring
the partner organizations.
• Preparation of analytical reports for higher management
Invest India Micro Pension Services Pvt. Ltd (IIMPS) www.iimp.in
A company promoted by eminent pension sector and development sector experts, Invest
India, SEWA Bank and UTI with mandate to provide oldage income solution to the low
income workers of unorganised sector.
Designation: Regional Head (Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odissa and
Chhattisgarh) (July 2009-June 2012)
Principal Duties:
• Formulate strategies for mobilising unorganised workers of urban area for
implementation of financial literacy program focused on old age social security
• Supervise and coordinate with partners for implementation of micro pension project in
Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odissa and Chhattisgarh
• Mentoring team of 35 members, Monitoring the operation of micro pension,
• Actively involved in designing of training manuals and planning of Training for
Trainers (TOT) for pension literacy.
• Overall partnership management with UTI, BASIX and Janlaxmi.
• Responsible for the client delivery management with the help of the channel partners.
• Facilitating training on community mobilisation for accessing micro pension and
implementation of financial literacy and pension literacy program among lower income
group.
Major Achievements
• Efficiently implemented Micro Pension project of Invest India Micro Pension Services
Pvt. Ltd. (IIMPS) in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chattishgarh, Maharashtra,
Orissa and Jharkhand.
Access Development Services, Bhopal
A not-for-profit Company with a mandate and capacity to provide specialized technical
services in the areas of microfinance and livelihood

4. Designation: Project Coordinator (Micro Finance) From April 2008 to July 2009)
• Completed the ICICI-supported Microfinance Institutions (MFI) Incubation Project in
the state of Madhya Pradesh with the identified NGO-Micro Finance Institution
• Designed training modules for training of trainers on financial literacy and self help
groups for SHPI and SHGs.
• Support and provide strategic inputs in the formation of Community Based Micro
Finance Institution, in Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh.
BASIX www.basixindia.com
Designation: Senior Executive (Urban Microfinance) (January 2007 to March 2008)
Principal Duties:
• Proficiently managed the micro finance operations having loan portfolio of about
Rs10.5 million in compliance with the company’s standards at Bharatpur Unit of the
Company
• Appraisal, disbursement and monitoring of micro-loans to members of SHGs and JLGs
• Mitigation of risk, provisioning of life and non-life insurance products of AVIVA Life,
Royal Sundaram and ICICI Lombard
CUTS-International
CUTS Centre for Consumer Action, Research & Training (CUTS CART) is a research and
advocacy Centre. This Programme Centre was created as a result of diversification of CUTS
in order to move ahead with its inherited agenda: consumer protection and education, and to
create a more responsible society.
Designation: Management Trainee (April 2005-Dec 2006)
Principal Duties:
• Managed team of 14 Block Coordinators and 56 surveyors for ensuring proper
implementation of the program
• Designing surveys formats, Field Testing, data compilation and analysis and
dissemination
• Presenting and advocating the key findings in the state level workshops
Research and Studies
• “Livelihood profiling of 58 Urban Slums of 28 towns of Bihar” under Samvardhan
Project for IPE-Global.
• Public Private Partnership for Promotion of Safe Migration to “Combat Human
Trafficking”
• A Study on Livelihood Visioning in Rajarpakar block of Vaishali District of Bihar
(IDF, Patna, October’ 2009)” (ATSEC- Bihar), August 2011
• Review of the existing micro-finance activities of GRAMODYA SAMAJIK
SANSTHAN through evaluation of existing SHGs. (GRAMODYA SAMAJIK
SANSTHAN, Tonk, Rajasthan). November 2006
• Completed Participatory Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) of Mid Day Meal in
Chittorgarh District of Rajasthan. CUTS-International (July 2005- Dec’2006)
Professional trainings

5. • Gained Knowledge through Fundamentals of Livelihood Promotion (FLP)-I and FLP-
II conducted by “The Livelihood School”
Education
2015: Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Masters in Business Administration (Rural Management from Xavier Institute of
Actions & Studies), Jabalpur with 60% marks
2002 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi University with 61%
marks
1996 10+2 Science from D.A.V. Sr. Sec. School, Kuju, Hazaribag, Jharkhand with 63%
marks
1994 10th
from D.A.V. Sr. Sec. School, Kuju, Hazaribag, Jharkhand with 66% marks.
Languages Known
Language Speak Read Write
Hindi Excellent Excellent Excellent
English V. Good V. Good V. Good
IT Skills: MS office ( word, Excel, PPT), SPSS
Current Cost to Company: 10.20 Lakhs per annum Expected: 12 Lakh Per annum
References
Mr. Rakesh Nath Tiwari
Social Policy Expert-Vision Performance Unit
Price Water Coopers India
Mail: tiwary.india@gmail.com
09771432070
Miss. Padmaja Nair
Consultant- Community Mobilization
and WASH, IPE Golbal, Wateraid,
UNICEF, GHK, ADB, CRICIL etc.
Lucknow, UP
Mail: nair.padmaja@gmail.com
07753995331
Ms. Irina Sinha
Thematic Head-SDPAL
SPUR, IPE Global
Patna, Bihar
Mail: isinha@ipeglobal.com
Mob:91-9572291350

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