Mrs. Sibani Chakraborty

Promoter, Founder Director, Managing Director

An expert in the field of Project Management, Human Development Issues, Human Resource
Policy Development & Management, Project Appraisals, Policy Analysis and Development for
NGOs and Funding Organisations, Human Development Project Design & Development,
Feasibility Analysis, Project Structure Plan, Finance-Cost Plan, Formulation of Public Private
Partnership Projects (PPP models), Pre-Funding Appraisal, Social Audits, Project Monitoring And
Evaluation on behalf of Foreign Funding Agencies and Government Departments.

Mrs. Sibani Chakraborty had started her career in Human Development under Indian Institute of
Bio Social Research & Development (IBRAD) for her preference to work for mainstream
development issues than to continue in industries or corporate sector.

Before that she had completed summer project with ICI paints -Rishra Works for Effluent
Treatment Plant Management (ETP) and water pollution parameters under departmental head of
SHE (Safety, Health & Environment) ICI. Then she joined a pollution control laboratory and that
period gave her immense exposure to shop floors of different type of industries and working with
pollution control board in treatment of pollution parameters in industrial waste management. It
was immediately after completion of two years post graduation on Environment Management
from Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISW & BM), Kolkata.

Graduated with Botany from Scottish Church College, Kolkata, Mrs. Chakraborty joined IISW
& BM for higher education in professional definition. Her schooling at Ramakrishna Sarada
Mission Sister Nivedita Girls’ School dictated her to working for a cause and something different
than just earning a good remuneration.

Mrs. Sibani Chakraborty had been a trainer and documentation person for Quality Management
System (QMS) in process of ISO 9000 series certification for private companies as well as
Government wings like Railway workshops on frequent basis.

Mrs. Chakraborty had been known for rendering wide range of training on Participatory Forest
Management in 6 states (West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattishgarh, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh and Gujarat) under socio-ecological process development through Joint Forest
Management Act, along with State Forest Departments and Ministry of Environment and Forest,
GOI in collaboration with Ford Foundation. Under team of IBRAD she worked for Micro-Plan
development and implementation through PRA tools in states of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and
West Bengal rigorously.

In her first job, Mrs. Chakraborty was fortunate enough to learn from people of different states,
different types of forests and tribes of India, complex dimensions of ecology and economy in
forest buffer and fringe areas, Indian laws and policies and access indigenous knowledge,
research papers and finest of trainers and senior persons within own organizations and forest
departments of several states. She initiated and leaded IBRAD team in Karnataka especially
through Bangalore office and also in Madhya Pradesh from 2000-2004. Publication of case
studies and action research theories and results was her responsibility at several projects.

She worked for GOPA Epos Consultants for year in 2007-08 in capacity of PPM Manager under
consortium with Government of West Bengal, GTZ (German Technical Cooperation Agency) and
European Commission for Basic Health Project India in section of Planned Preventive
Maintenance of Government Health facilities in rural West Bengal.

Working years with Indienhilfe e.V. Herrsching, Germany in team of consultants in India at
different positions from 2005 to 2016 (having a gap of one year) makes a defining part of her
profile. She started as Project Officer and then leaded the team in capacity of Chief Country
Officer- Programme & Administration and Lead Consultant, she was responsible for design and
development, monitoring and evaluation, liaison, prefunding appraisal, human resource policy
development as well as appraisal and impact analysis of all Indienhilfe supported initiatives in
India.

Mrs. Chakraborty leaded Indienhilfe Network against Child Labour (IHNACL) along with partner
NGOs and likeminded forums in that tenure. She had designed as well as executed several
programmes through with partner NGOs of Indienhilfe. The emergency fund for natural or social
calamities or individual crisis under support of Indienhilfe was also her area of responsibility.
During her tenure Mrs. Chakraborty was fortunate enough to arrange for several skill
development trainings and workshops for project team, accounts-admin team and stakeholders
of different development projects as supported by Indienhilfe and also interpreted QMS into NGO
functioning on several modules during these Capacity Building trainings.

Mrs. Sibani Chakraborty was Founder Managing Trustee and Settler for a public charitable trust
Kolkata Trust for Human Development (KTfHD) along with persons working for similar causes
from different professions. She leaded the trust since conception, formulation, legal compliance
and project initiation, institutional settlement, team building to promotion in public through
annual programme from 2013-2017 till Mrs. Chakraborty decided to take a break from strenuous
yet enriching responsibilities for sake of family and she resigned from all positions.

But with unstoppable dreams for meaningful Human Development actions, she along with her
husband Mr. Debasish Chakraborty started this section-8 company APARAJEETA ASSOCIATION
OF WOMEN FOR HUMAN with a sea of plans, with very limited own finance resource but with a
capital of skill, knowledge and experience of both of them acquired in nearly two decades of
their career. They also have well wishers and friends as a group of experts in Advisory Board of
the organization and in APARAJEETA ARMY in establishing a new organization and its projects.