Our Team

Governance

Board of Directors

Prof. Vinod Chandra Menon

Chairperson

Ms. Jiji Sebastian

Secretary

Mr. Adolph Furtado

Treasurer

Ms. Prasanna Hulikavi

Trustee

Ms. Payal Randhawa

Trustee

Mr. Nisheeth Kumar

Trustee

Ms. Urvashi Devidayal

Trustee

Ms. Priya Patil

Trustee

Dr. Aravind Chinchure

Trustee

Senior Management Team

Mr. Upmanyu Patil

Director, Programs
Upmanyu Patil has expertise in disaster management and resilient development for the last two decades. Upmanyu is a highly committed and innovative socio-technical development professional with engineering and management background. His work has been committed to designing, developing and strengthening large scale interventions that involve community institutions and PRIs in water and environmental sanitation energy and rural development across climate threatened communities.

Mr. Baby T Varghese

Director, Finance
Baby T Varghese leads the finance team, ensuring Swayam Shikshan Prayog meets its statutory requirements related to accounting, HR & other laws in the prescribed manner, within the prescribed time, at the minimum cost. The systems and procedures for these are constantly monitored and improved in line with the needs of the organization. He also provides strategic direction to the organization on financial issues.

Ms. Jiji Sebastian

Secretary
Jiji Sebastian joined SSP in 1993, bringing her extensive skills in strategy, program implementation, branding, stakeholder communication, HR, and governance. She played a crucial role in SSP’s expansion from community engagement post-earthquake to achieving nationwide influence, empowering more than 350,000 women across various sectors.

Ms. Naseem Shaikh

Associate Director, Programs
Naseem Shaikh is an expert with over two decades of experience in organizing rural grassroots women to build their economic, social and political competencies and move from the margin to the mainstream. After the massive earthquake in 1993, Naseem took up an enormous challenge of bringing out 500 rural women in as many villages to act as interlocutors between the Government and affected communities. After completion of the recovery effort, she persisted and redesigned grassroots women’s roles as leaders and planners in a large UNDP supported project. In the last few years, Naseem is now an active global leader in the GROOTS International and Huairou Commission global network of grassroots women’s organizations of which Swayam Shikshan Prayog is an active member.

Mr. Laxmikant Malvadkar

Associate Director, Skills & Entrepreneurship
Laxmikant is an innovative socio-technical development professional with IT and management experience. He oversees a gamut of basic business, vocational and entrepreneurship training programs for rural women collectives and youth in Latur, and is responsible for developing training material and liaising with government and technical institutions.He has worked with women Self Help Groups and Below Poverty Line families to enable access to livelihood opportunities.

Swayam Shikshan Prayog

The organisation is committed to promote sustainable community development by repositioning women as change makers and fostering collective leadership.

Contact

  • 102 First Floor, Gayatri Building, Orchid School Lane, Balewadi Phata, Baner, Pune-411 045, Maharashtra, India.
  • sspindia1@gmail.com / connect@swayamshikshanprayog.org
  • 91 8605016700 / +91 9323557456

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