Mithila Deshpande Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Canada Area

I contributed to the operation and management of the Governance and Justice Program within the Inclusive Economies Program Area at IDRC. Core thematic areas of my work: Gender, Youth, Access to Justice, Large-scale land acquisitions in developing, fragile and post-conflict settings. My key responsibilities included program management, knowledge management.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Core team member of a World Bank study exploring linkages between social service delivery and political economy in violence affected settings in South Asia, with broader implications for governance, policy making and.
• Contributor to a policy synthesis report: 'Social service delivery in violent contexts: achieving results against the odds – a report from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal';
• Contributed to drafting, editing and research for background country papers on health, education and rural infrastructure service delivery in Nepal and Pakistan
• Produced global review of operational and policy guidance by reviewing, synthesizing 70 robust operational and policy guidance sources for governments, donors, development partners, aid agencies on delivering and.
• Led and conducted 8 key informant interviews with country specialists and development experts, coded field data, conducted in-depth analysis of 225 field interviews and 30 focus groups, produced country-focused.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Key responsibilities: Research, writing, conceptualization and design of survey and draft report on M&E skills for peacebuilders; programmatic coordination, communications and outreach support. Responsible for coding, analysis and research support for a meta-evaluation of six Women's Empowerment Demonstration projects in Sierra Leone, Burundi, the DRC.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Key responsibilities: Conflict analysis, research support, maintaining and updating database of territorial disputes in the Americas. Assisted in the development of the OAS Virtual library through extensive research of historical developments in territorial disputes & OAS Peacekeeping Missions. Updated the glossary of peace terms in the virtual library of.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Key responsibilities: Communications outreach, grant proposal writing, fundraising for implementation of multi-track systems-based peacebuilding approaches for the organization's India-Pakistan projects. Managed communication with Indian and Pakistani embassies in Washington DC, Foreign Affairs Ministries of India, Pakistan, IMTD associates in USA, India.

Mumbai, India

Provided elementary level oral and verbal Spanish language training to 35 adult learners

Mumbai, India

Key responsibilities: Point of contact between organization's offices in India, Spain and Mexico, liaised with Managing Director and press and protocol agents, acted as multilingual interpreter, translator (English, Spanish, Marathi, Hindi)

Mumbai, India

Key responsibilities: Data collection, implementation of research design using qualitative and quantitative analysis, report writing, project coordination and communications, knowledge management (key issues: climate change, migration, development and displacement, nomadic and de-notified tribes of India)Key outputs: Two internal impact assessment reports.

Mumbai

Archived and translated secondary literature sources from vernacular print media on the impact of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on masses in Maharashtra, India for use as source material in Kaur, Raminder (2009) Gods, Bombs and the Social Imaginary. In: Abraham, Itty (ed.) South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India.

Mumbai, India

Evaluated and proof-read written and oral translations of language training e-course material from French to English for language accuracy and quality control

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Peace And Conflict Resolution

Activities and Societies: Dialogue Facilitator, Dialogue Development Group

Master Of Arts (M.A.), History

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Activities and Societies: Social Service League