Charmi Patel Kapadia

Experience

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  CEPT Research and Development Foundation

  May 2016 - Oct 2016

  Research Associate

  Worked on Shyama Prasad Mukharji Mission (RURBAN MISSION) and prepared ICAP- Integrated Cluster Action Plans reports for four clusters located in Gujarat including Socio-economic and infrastructure planning component, and spatial planning.

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  PEOPLE IN CENTRE CONSULTING SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

  Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

  Program Associate

  As a Program Associate, I have successfully completed three projects as follows;Project 1: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) - Preparation of ‘Housing for All Plan of Action (HfAPoA)’ for Mansa, Dehgam, Chaklasi towns.Project 2: Integrated Regional Development Study - Saurashtra, GujaratProject 3: Strategy preparation for WASH program in Sheohar, Bihar

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  CEPT Research and Development Foundation

  Mar 2018 - May 2018

  Research Associate Consultant

  Short term research study on 'Urban Sanitation, Septage and Waste Water Management in Uttarakhand state' under SCBP project, NIUA.

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  WaterAid India

  Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

  Consultant

  Project 1: Jal Chaupal Manual - for a village-level water security plan.Project 2: Research study on the 'FSM landscape in South Asia countries'.Project 3: Study on 'An Economic Analysis of Honeysuckers in Lucknow'Project 4: Developing Community managed toilet into a WASH Resource Centre in Lucknow, Ujjain, and Kanpur'

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  EY

  Apr 2019 - Mar 2021

  Senior Project Consultant

  Assignment 1: Knowledge Partner for EODB/BRAP and World Bank Doing Business in Karnataka. End-to-end advisory for implementation of Business Reforms Action Plan 2019. Assignment 2: IPA ranking, Provided technical support to state and prepared compliances Assignment 3: Development of Tamil Nadu Industrial Transformation Index-TIXIAssignment 4: Concept building on ‘Centre of Urban Excellence’

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  UNICEF India

  Aug 2021 - Oct 2023

  State Consultant for Safely Managed Water Climate and Energy

  - Provided technical assistance in accelerating implementation of national flagship program ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ in Chhattisgarh - Collaboration with JJM, Chhattisgarh and coordinating with CREDA , NYKS , district administrations - Working collaboratively with UNICEF partners (ACE, CYDA, and Pratham) to implement partnership programmes such as ‘Skill building and capacity enhancement of Jal Mitan/Jal Entrepreneurs for O&M of drinking water facilities in rural areas' - Major contributions: 1) Conceptualising ‘Jal Bahini’, a cadre of 5 women per village, unique and first of its kind local level governance system, functions as water warriors and takes up a leadership role for governance of drinking water services in villages. State has around 100,900 Jal Bahini in villages and around 900,000 tests conducted during 2021-22, the State held leading position across India in FTK testing as per WQMIS.2) Prepared WQMS framework in context of the state, laboratory improvement plans and guide note for NABL accreditation application process. Made substantial contribution in accelerating the process of NABL accreditation through setting up an effective monitoring system, keeping eye on every small step and giving direct access to higher management for review. As a result, 39 laboratories out of total 52 got NABL accreditation in FY 2022-23. 3) assisted in conceptualization, organizing and rolling out of several awareness campaigns such as A) ‘FTK drive for water quality testing’, B) ‘Jal Bahini- harnessing women power’, C) ‘Mor Gaon Mor Paani – My village my water’ promoting prudent usage of water and source sustainability, D) ‘Jal Gunwatta Pakhwada, a fifteen-day campaign on water quality’. 4) authored 6 success stories and 4 of them have been published by National e-magazine Jal Jeevan Mission Samvad. One of the stories on ‘Solarization’ was also featured by UNICEF India on Twitter. Show less

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  UNICEF India

  Dec 2023 - Mar 2024

  State Consultant for Water, Climate and Energy

  - Working closely with Public Health Engineering Dept., Government of West Bengal, and support implementation of activities under Rolling Work Plans developed jointly by Govt. of West Bengal and UNICEF. to work in close coordination with other stakeholder State Depts. and Govt. Bodies (Panchayats and Rural Development, School Education and Women & Child Development, Irrigation and Waterways, WRIDD, TETSD, CGWB), District administrations, Civil Society Organizations and Technical Institutions. - Providing specialized technical assistance (TA) for acceleration of FHTC coverage, operation, and maintenance of drinking water systems and WQMS, focusing on system strengthening, capacity building, skilling and professionalisation of water services, knowledge management and evidence generation for adaptation of learning and scale up of best practices.- to deliver documents on frameworks, financing models, convergent models and partnerships for integrating / mainstreaming source sustainability, climate, energy, and environment (CEE) components in rural drinking water sector in the state. - developing technical documents and disseminate good practices and lessons learned on water and CEE. Furthermore, - to support CEE and water policy related work and/or design new CEE and water programmes Show less