User:R basavaraju

Basavaraju Rajashekharamurthy, is a development professional having diversified background of designing & implementing various social developmental projects. He holds a post graduate degree in Business Administration from University of Mysore. His expertise is Project Planning, Designing Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism, Action Plan Development and Advocacy.

Basavaraju started his career as Training Coordinator at SVYM’s Vivekananda Institute for Leadership Development (V-LEAD) in 2005. Within a short span, he graduated as the Head of Training Division where he established a full-fledged training team and systems at V-LEAD. Later as a Head of Projects, he led different developmental projects ranging from Institution Based Capacity Building, Youth Development, Sanitation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Education for Marginalized community at the rural & urban area, HIV & AIDS, Nodal NGO etc.. He has implemented several activities in collaboration with Government and Non-government organizations. Basavaraju played a lead role in extending activities of organization to Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. He has also led different research & evaluation studies including Labour Marker Survey for International Labour Organization in Chamarajanagar, Evaluation of Treatment Counseling Centres in FOUR states of the country and many Monitoring and Program Evaluation Studies for ILO in Karnataka.

Basavaraju served as a Deputy Director in Department of Labour, Government of Karnataka for the period of almost TWO years between 2009 and 2011. He developed the State Action Plan for elimination of child labour in Karnataka, established State Resource Centre to act as a nodal agency to facilitate child labour elimination activities in Karnataka in collaboration with Government of Karnataka and International Labour Organization. He started an exclusive bi-monthly journal on Child Labour “Balavani” served as an Editor in Chief during his tenure at State Resource Centre. His role was significant in establishing Web Based Child Labour Tracking System and online Child Labour Complaint Registering Mechanism.

Basavaraju is now nominated by Department of Rural Development and Panchayath Raj as the Advisory Committee member for the State Rural Livelihood Mission. He is also associated with the mission to develop the organization structure and strategic focus document. He served as the Deputy Director of GRAAM from June 2011 and now the Executive Director from April 2014. He engages himself at strategic and operational activities of GRAAM. He is also personally doing couple of research and evaluation studies in collaboration with Cornell University.