Curriculum Vitae: Om Prakash Mukhiya
Curriculum Vitae: Om Prakash Mukhiya
Curriculum Vitae: Om Prakash Mukhiya
PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT
Passionate about nurturing social initiatives in Corporate Social Responsibility, not–for–profit organizations & GO initiative, and advising businesses on
community investments. I am a strategic and results driven manager with over 13 + years of experience across diverse Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
in India and Africa (Malawi, Nigeria, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa). Consistent track record of delivering operational results and people development
in dynamic and challenging environment. Experienced in most elements of general management backed up by strategic thinking, executional excellence and
strong leadership. Skills include managing M&A’s, negotiating JV’s, setting up greenfield operations, new development, stakeholder management. Highly
successful in building relationship with partners, governments and regulatory authorities.
Personal Details
Name Om Prakash Mukhiya
Phone No +265997728122, +917076851563
Nationality Indian
Civil Status Married with two children
Email Id omprakashmukhiya@gmail.com
Present Address City Mall First Floor, Lilongwe, Malawi, Central Africa
Permanent Address Flat No- 1/C Dreams Society, Bhandup West, Mumbai, India
Academics
Degree obtained MBA in Rural Management (Masters Degree)
Institution Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, India
Duration 21st May 2005 to 30th May 2007
Education Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development (PGDRD)
Specialization: Social Entrepreneurship
Degree obtained Bachelor of Commerce (Bachelor Degree)
Institution St. Xavier Collage, Kolkata, India
Date 2001 to 2004
Education Bachelor of Commerce
Citified by Alison Coronavirus - What you need to know.
Tackling the Novel Coronavirus by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Training COVID-19: Operational Planning Guidelines and COVID-19 Partners Platform to support country
preparedness and response by WHO
E – training on Complex Humanitarian Emergencies on building a better response by Humanitarian
Academy at Harvard (March 2019)
Training on CLTS and WASH best practices Unicef (Nigeria May 2016)
Orientation training on RSPO Principals and GRI Universal Standards and Topic-specific Standards with
special focus on Environmental and Social Standard (Nigeria June 2015).
Participated in T.O.T. workshop on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Counseling held under Global Fund Round
– 7 at center for psychological counseling Bangalore University ( India March 2008)
Other Skills
Language English, Portuguese, Hausa, Hindi, Bengali and Nepali
Computer Skills Windows, MS Office (Words, Excel, PowerPoint), & various Internet Applications
Achievements
Award
Excellence Award By Nigerian Top Executives in Public Rated in Top 1 Percent of all Nigerian executives based on the company
Administration 2015 rating. size and international business network strength.
Profile Summary
Over 13 years of experience in Corporate Social Responsibility, INGO, NGOs & GO in India, Malawi, Nigeria,
Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa.
Knowledge of humanitarian communications, Public health communications, Hand Washing, Hygiene
promotion and crisis response techniques considered an asset, particularly related to Ebola response.
Implemented and Coordinated project in Prevention and Control (IPC) measures for outbreak response
and preparedness in Ebola outbreak.
Presenting the effective implementation of CSR projects on direct mediums such as corporate website,
social media, fleet branding, machine engagement with key customer groups, besides expansion into
different branding and participate at industry events and seminars.
Liaison with various Governmental departments for Land Acquisition and Successfully designed the
program for Resettlement & Rehabilitation program for farmers and displaced community/villages.
Introduced in more than 187 communities for the establishment of a sustainable freshwater supply
system through rainwater harvesting and improving the groundwater quality through artificial
groundwater recharge through integration between freshwater and wastewater management.
Spearheaded Community mobilization through community participation in form of IEC, BCC, PRA and
Social Audit and actively engage in programs for small holder and out grower programs.
Successfully designed monitoring and evaluation tools for Water and Sanitation program.
Completed multiple projects under best WASH practices under Ministry of health, UNICEF, DFID and
Ministry of Water Resources Projects in Western Africa and Southeast Africa.
Spearheaded Community mobilization through community participation in form of IEC, BCC, PRA and
Social Audit and Implemented the sanitation program in urban slums provided them with sanitation block
and provision of water.
Expertise in Impact assessment, program management, communication, documentation, liaising with
government departments at all levels across geographies, donor agencies and CSR, NGOs and GO.
Development of IEC, Training modules, SOP for project implementation, press release, newsletters,
presentation for external agency etc.
Partnering with local people, grass root NGO partners and government for effective implementation of
primary health care program under PPP modal.
Worked on model of The Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST), Public-Private
Partnership for Hand washing (PPPHW) Community Led total sanitation (CLTS).
Strong organiser, motivator, team player and a decisive leader with successful track record in directing
from original concept through implementation.
Develop pro-active strategies and implement employee engagement programs regarding sustainability
(i.e. campaigns around Earth Day or Global Human Rights Day) to help achieve broader sustainability
goals, e.g., energy management, waste reduction, social risks, etc.
Driving the completion of customer sustainability surveys and/or requests for sustainability
strategies/plans/progress, and inquiries from other external (community/NGO) stakeholders.
Partner with various department representatives globally to drive secure and environmentally beneficial
reuse and recycling solutions Support Corporate EHS compliance audits, ensuring that all steps in the
recycling chain meet at performance requirements.
Actively involved with customer sustainability initiatives with a practical understanding of RSPO principals
for businesses ability to maximizing returns on recycling programs, etc.
Sealand Investments Ltd. and Satec Ltd. (JV) Malawi, as Consultant (Business development Africa)
Nov 2019 In Closely working with Govt. of Malawi in the Ministry of Lands and Finance on 10,000 security house.
Role: Liaising with the President office, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security,
Ministry of Lands and Ministry of Finance and other Stakeholders.
Brainstorming with the business development team to create new project strategies and Identification of potential
market prospects, initiating communication and final closure of the deal.
Developing new business relations in different countries like Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique and DRC and managing
existing ones.
Initiate business ventures and Negotiation with client and arranging business meetings and one-on-one
conversations with prospective clients with Head office team.
June 2019 Oct 2019: Consultant Khyber Cement, Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir. India.
Role: Stetting up the CSR Initiative, formation of CSR committee, SOP, need assessment, designing of Project &
implementation plan.
Handling work relating to Resettlement & Rehabilitation and assistance in preparation & implementation of R&R Policy as per
mines statuary requirement.
Designing of social development activity, livelihood program to carryout resettlement, training & capacity building and liaising
with various Govt Bodies and Private Agencies.
Formulating the policy for CSR activities as per Schedule VII of company act.
July18 to May19: Manager, The Pravin Agarwal Foundation (TPAF) Sterlite Technologies Limited PAN India Operation
Head.
Role: Registration of foundation, setting up the office, SOP etc. and Expansion of program.
Creating an ecosystem committed to making paediatric liver transplants more accessible and managing the corpus of 100
Crore.
Networking with the Health Department, State government and Private hospital for making liver transplants more accessible
for needy.
Organizing and participating in national and international conferences and seminars and representing TPAF.
Working with the state health department for awareness and early detection of liver disease and developing and Publishing
the press release newsletters.
Managing project work in alignment with the Statement of Work (SOW) obligations and ensure accurate team reporting and
monitoring budget on a periodical basis.
Responsible for ongoing project management and developing relationship with key client stakeholders and client executives.
Dec2016 to Mar 2018 with Rizwan Adatia Foundation as General Manager (Africa Operation based in Mozambique)
Role: Designed and implemented Health, Education and livelihood program in Mozambique and started projects in Swaziland and
Durban area SA.
Oversee the design and implementation of all project activities related to institutional and human capacity building, including
needs assessments; institutional design; training designs; training delivery; and training impact assessment.
Supporting WASH projects/programs Team Leaders/Managers in ensuring compliance of all WASH standards and donor
regulations.
Keeping updated with environmental matters and be aware of the policies and development in areas of operation in Sofala
and Gaza Province.
Created a model for effectively communicating behaviour change in sanitation and hygiene implemented. WASH in
communities, schools and healthcare facilities implemented and aligned with national guidelines in Gaza and Sofala province.
Supported 100 ECD centres by providing nutritional support and trained more than 250 ECD teachers in the vocational training
centre.
Rehabilitated 100 Non-functional Borehole and created models for community-operated and maintained rural water supply
tested and scaled-up in Xai – Xai and Beira.
Focus on building motivated, active, and well managed local organizations ensuring that key functions of institutions and their
personnel are sustainable after Project completion and coordinate with other staff to integrate the capacity building with
other project activities (e.g. CLTS, behaviour change, infrastructure) taking advantage of learning by doing opportunities.
Lead the team of Entheos Audiology Cooperative USA and Provided the Gift of Hearing to 900 people in Mozambique.
Strategically entrenched 150 (APEs) caregivers in the needy community with partnership of MoH under primary health care
program in Gaza province and conducted 9 health camps over 19500 people got benefited from this intervention.
Lead Eye Care program (cataract surgery) in partnership with the Ministry of health under PPP Model and successfully
completed 1280 surgeries.
Menstrual hygiene management program for adolescent girls targeting at upper primary school level and under girl’s pride
project, distributed sanitary pads to 3000 girls, trained 500 teachers and 5000 boys from the primary and secondary level in
Beira.
Handled events and dealing with multiple internal and external stakeholders and coordinating with the team to continually
develop social media as an effective internal communications tool and to ensure it meets the needs of its audience.
Responsible for Project planning, Implementation strategy for 2 countries (Swaziland and South Africa)
Developed the program for unemployed youth and trained over 1690 people with the provision of job placement & self-
employment and establishment of 180 microenterprise women and youth under Employability, Enterprise and Skill
Entrepreneurship (EEE) modal.
Nov’14 to Oct 2016 with Wilmar International, Nigeria as CSR head (Nigeria Operation)
Role: Stated CSR initiative in the company in the field of (Agriculture, Education, Health, livelihood and Water)
Supervising overall management of Nigeria CSR operation for land acquisition & resettlement including government and other
stakeholders in line with FPIC process (Free, Prior and Informed Consent) and as per company policy.
Maintaining updates of complaints & requests of the community and providing them amicable solutions.
Acting as Professional Representative, liaising between the community and various local & national governmental and non-
governmental agencies to build strong networks for environmental security and streamlining the communication process.
Appraising & selecting NGO partners and steering community development program interventions like natural resource
management, watershed development, education, livelihood promotion, community health, women’s empowerment,
transfer of technology.
Working with the activist NGO, GO and CBO and addressing their quarries with amicable solutions.
Construction of School for rural communities with proper planning and landscaping.
Conducting programs geared towards building competencies of target audiences and participants; ensuring quality delivery
of funded projects involving in-depth impact analysis of tasks
Extending support and mentoring team members in executing research and project tasks; liaising with Government Agencies,
NGO’s and Private/ Public Service Providers between donor and community.
Fostering capacity building of individuals, disadvantaged groups through education & training.
Improved the facilities of 100 PHC by introducing telemedicine and development of infrastructure.
Designed intervention smallholder farmers on smallholder agriculture entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on adoption of
improved technologies and new business models.
Awarded Scholarship to students in all landlord communities and provided 88 student scholarships for tertiary education.
Developed 20 school buildings with VIP latrines, toilets for boys & girls, and special attention to menstrual hygiene.
Designed & implemented health, income generation, smallholder scheme and provided water and medical support within
communities.
Led & assisted in the generation of economic development plans, and acted as the project manager for community economic
development, education, health programs, HIV/AIDS, eye care, skill development programs for youth & environmental plans.
Supplied water to 300 families with best WASH practices.
Constructed 150 toilets with water points for boys, girls teaching staff, the formation of hand washing club for 150 schools.
Rehabilitated 5000 sanitation block, 1175 solar & 1122 motorized boreholes in 2 states (cross river state government project)
which covered 835,000 people in semi-urban and slums areas and 75,700 people in rural areas and established the concept
of VLOM.
Mar’11 – Oct’14 with Tulsi Chanrai Foundation, Nigeria as Manager - WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene) Program.
Role: Implementation of Projects and liaisinging with donor agency and Government.
Working Partner: UNICEF Nigeria, DFID, MDG, TY Danjuma Foundation, State government, MoW & Federal Government of Nigeria
Established linkages and collaborated with the National Project Manager, assisted the RUWASA in planning, implementation,
supervision, monitoring and evaluation of all the project activities in the state
Conducted survey on safe drinking water and completed the water-related policy in three states including Katsina, Bauchi &
Jigawa
Interacted with other state departments and provided support if required for the implementation of strategies
Managed & tracked contracts with project partners and flagged any potential risks and suggested mitigation measures
Worked on Stream Protection, Town Water supply in urban slums, hand washing, CLTS, WASH Planning for school with the
government,
Creation of implementation, documentation, and follow up on all training activities of the project using consistent, adult
learning approaches.
Facilitate and supervise the conduct of organizational capacity assessments of local LAMs and the development of capacity at
the local level.
Ensured rainwater harvesting for schools and community infrastructure for better sanitation and WASH in school & improved
health
Conducted regular financial management & reporting as per the organization financial guidelines at field zonal level
Liaised with government & donor agency in the country to provide collaborative support to the Ministry of Water Resources
to scale up safe drinking water in urban & rural areas, Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and hygiene across Nigeria.
Supported the process of development of the WASH components of the Nigeria situation analysis on the status of women &
children
Managed state-based WASH programme in a remote dry land rural area of the northern part of Nigeria home to people of
mixed livelihoods bases in a crisis situation in the northern states of Nigeria.
Developed systems and worked with staff & partners to improve technical quality and social aspects of the programme for
increasing understanding of technologies appropriate to dry land areas
Implemented learning & practical integration of considerations related to gender and working with marginalised communities
in complex dryland areas
Spearheaded state-level community management activities in respect of all functions of the Rural Development Project
Management for building a partnership with support organization, stakeholders & communities
Ensured rehabilitation of over 550 non-functional boreholes across Seven States of Nigeria providing safe drinking water to
over 300,000 population across the country
Launched water sanitation and hygiene committee for each handpump for operations
May’07 – Feb’11 with Sumanahalli Society, Bangalore as Senior Project Manager
Role: Implementation of Projects
Monitored, planned, implemented & evaluated projects in 20 locations across the country across Agriculture, HIV/AIDS,
health, education, and Livelihood, Safe Drinking Water.
Worked in Rural community through PRA in implementing livelihood projects like the formation of SHGs, Farmers Club,
common property resource management, micro planning for project preparation and social audit.
Initiated up-gradation of livelihood skills for unemployed dropout youth and provided them with job placement in urban slums
areas.
Established 230 SHGs and linked them to formal rural finance systems like nationalized banks and empowered them for IGA
like cattle rearing, NTFP (non-timber forest product), fishery, vermicompost and so on.
Conducted research, reporting, documentation & publication of news bulletin, quarterly and annual reports
Monitored & supervised the ongoing project on HIV/AIDS by Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, education of & vocational
training for dropout children funded by FVTRS. Trained around 3450 adults.
A rehabilitation program for flood-affected people in Bellary & Honnali, Karnataka and Oleru & Bhattiproulu, Andhra Pradesh.
Wrote proposals for grants & process of sending reports to funders and PRA training for Bangalore University, Claretian
Missionaries Fathers, and different Grass – root NGOs
Participated in T.O.T. workshop on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Counseling held under Global Fund Round – 7 at a centre for
psychological counselling Bangalore University
Conducted a study to evaluate the knowledge level about the HIV / AIDS and attitude of the villagers towards PLHA among
the villagers. Knowledge about STI, STD and Safe sex practices
Developed a new system of participatory planning at the micro level for the community-based rehabilitation
Mobilized the community to formed a block level club of citizen leaders for advocating the problems of their villages at the
higher level
Launched the Gender and Development Programme & Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Programme
Assisted in the evaluation of gender equity and community development programme in coordination with GOs and NGOs
Voluntary Assignment
‘Survey and Awareness for Leprosy Detection & Treatment and Rehabilitation Programme for the people affected by
Tsunami’ with Sumanahalli Society in May’04 – Apr’05