Deepak Rajput

Development and programme management professional with 10+ years of experience in project coordination, government and institutional partnerships, capacity building, and monitoring & evaluation across Central Government, State Government, PSUs, and national/international development organisations. Holds a Master of Social Work in Urban & Rural Community Development. Currently serves as Technical Support & Training Associate at UNDP, managing the complete State Programme Management Unit (PMU) for Himachal Pradesh under PMFBY, coordinating a multi-stakeholder ecosystem spanning State and Central Government departments, banks, insurance companies, technology partners, and national training institutions.

Career track record spans PMU management, government scheme convergence, women-led SHG and FPO livelihoods promotion, Learning Management System (LMS) architecture and design, MIS/dashboard-based results monitoring, vendor and consultant management, and multi-state field implementation across Bihar, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, with international exposure in Nepal and Cambodia. Skilled in independently coordinating across government and institutional stakeholders toward agreed workplans, timelines, and reporting obligations.

Technical Support & Training Associate - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Himachal Pradesh

(2023-12)

Contributed to climate-resilient risk-transfer mechanisms through PMFBY, including weather-indexed insurance product design that translates real-time climate and yield data into automated farmer claims — strengthening farmer financial resilience against climate variability. Manage the complete State Programme Management Unit (PMU) for Himachal Pradesh, providing technical and training support to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare for PMFBY implementation.

• Coordinate day-to-day implementation tracking, compliance monitoring, reporting and follow-up against structured workplans, timelines, deliverables and review frameworks.
• Monitor the full crop insurance season lifecycle — from farmer enrollment through harvest and claim settlement — covering individual farm losses, post-harvest losses, area-based losses, add-on covers and climate-driven contingencies.
• Led the grievance redressal machinimas KRPH to resolve farmers complaint and trained 500 executives in 9 call centers.
• Coordinate with a multi-stakeholder ecosystem including State and Central Government departments, banks, insurance companies, technology partners, MNCFC, and CSCs, each with distinct implementation roles.
• Facilitate review meetings and stakeholder consultations; document decisions and maintain systematic follow-up on agreed actions and deliverables.
• Consolidate, validate and analyse large programme datasets for performance reviews, results monitoring and evidence-based management reporting; coordinate government database and state MIS integration to improve data accuracy and transparency.
• Design and deliver stakeholder-specific training models based on scheme guidelines, tailored to each stakeholder's role and responsibility.
• Develop SOPs and negotiate MOUs with national training institutions including IRMA, MANAGE, NCDC, NIA Pune and NCCT, managing full contract terms, budgets and field training volumes. And conducted training need assessment with all the stakeholders.
• Led design and technical architecture of a Learning Management System and 3 mobile application (hosted on the NCIP portal), converting stakeholder training modules into digital formats (videos, SCORM files) using multiple software tools including AI-based solutions; mandated course completion across target stakeholder groups to standardize capacity development and reduce seasonal implementation delays.
• Led an Aadhaar-based API verification initiative to eliminate fake insurance enrollment, coordinating with Panchayat, Panchayati Raj, NIC and Agriculture Department stakeholders in Himachal Pradesh to integrate verification with the relevant government portal, safeguarding Central and State Government subsidy outlays.
• Served as a committee member for developing a new horticulture/commercial-crop insurance product with optional add-on covers for State Governments, coordinating with MNCFC, IMD and subject-matter experts to build crop-specific weather-based term sheets for automated claim generation.
• Track fund-linked activities, planned targets, reporting obligations and operational milestones across executing agencies.

Manager – Enterprise Support Services - Development Alternatives - Mirzapur & Bundelkhand Region

(2023-01 - 2023-11)

Coordinated implementation planning, stakeholder engagement, programme tracking and performance monitoring across livelihood and enterprise-development activities; facilitated government scheme convergence and institutional partnerships to strengthen programme outreach. Delivered Enterprise Support Services to micro-entrepreneurs (vegetable sellers, tailors, welders and other small business owners) to grow income and formalize operations.

• Set up and mentored a women-led Urja Mandal (energy collective) to establish decentralised energy storage capacity and facilitate its sale to the local market, building members' technical and business skills to run a self-sustaining, women-owned energy enterprise — in line with Development Alternatives Group's rural clean-energy and women's economic empowerment model.
• Structured a lending partnership with Rang De, a social lending platform, to provide need- and capacity-based loans (up to ₹50,000) to entrepreneurs without formal credit history or with existing NPAs.
• Designed and implemented an entrepreneur capacity-assessment tool to determine safe loan disbursement amounts and repayment capacity, using a staged-disbursement model to build repayment track records before scaling loan size.
• Designed and built "Udyami," a mobile-first Learning Management System, to deliver entrepreneurship training remotely — including modules on technology adoption, marketing, financial linkages, basic entrepreneurship and stock management.
• Developed implementation dashboards, tracking systems and reporting formats for management review and donor reporting; led data compilation, validation and analysis to support programme reviews and strategic decisions.
• Supported livestock-sector entrepreneurship in Andhra Pradesh, providing enterprise-building support to ~50 fishery and poultry farmers, including poultry incubation support and fishery infrastructure (nets, enclosures).
• Delivered vermicompost production training — converting cow dung into organic fertilizer — to support local farmer livelihoods and sustainable input use.

Project Manager - National Skills Foundation of India (NSFI) - Sonipat, Haryana

(2022-08 - 2023-01)

• Conducted a local feasibility study to identify viable entrepreneurship options, resulting in six focus areas: pickle-making, vermicomposting, handicrafts, tailoring, beautician services and poultry.
• Designed six training modules based on study findings and onboarded six subject-matter-expert trainers/consultants; led 50 grassroots awareness campaigns across Sonipat district to identify entrepreneurs with interest, potential and relevant skills.
• Coordinated implementation with NULM, SRLM, Lead Bank and RSETI institutions to support livelihood generation for women-led SHGs; drafted MoUs and managed partnership documentation with institutional partners.
• Delivered technical skill-building training through RSETI and technical experts, and linked graduating entrepreneurs to established local players for ongoing mentoring support.
• Delivered vermicompost production training — converting cow dung into organic fertilizer — for local farmers to strengthen sustainable livelihoods.
• Facilitated stakeholder meetings and implementation reviews; tracked outputs, milestones, partner deliverables and compliance follow-up; prepared analytical programme reports and management review documentation.

Program Officer – Training - Heifer International - Bihar, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan | India, Nepal & Cambodia

(2019-06 - 2022-06)

• Managed relationships with 35 implementing partner organisations, leading onboarding, Theory of Change orientation and capacity building across the full project lifecycle.
• Established 5 large Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) in SHG-active regions across Bihar, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan; supported women-led SHGs on livelihood generation.
• Built SHG capacity through a comprehensive training package covering advanced goat and poultry rearing technologies, fish farming, non-agricultural livelihoods, vermicomposting, mushroom cultivation and floating agriculture.
• Negotiated an MOU with Bihar State Cooperative Bank to secure loan access for SHGs, and facilitated NABARD financing for FPOs.
• Conducted field monitoring, implementation assessments and data

Master of Social Work - Urban & Rural Community Development