Mumbai,  28^th March– Shailesh Nagar, Associate Director, Intellecap  featured in the panel organized by The Better India on ‘Girl Child Education: Gearing For Tomorrow” on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Hosted on March 4th by The Better India in association with Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the webinar was centered around solutions and interventions aimed at bringing girls back to school. Using dialogue, we aim to explore efforts and recovery plan from different stakeholders to bring girls back to school or prevent them from dropping out.

The focus of this discussion was on three focus points:

1. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent closure of schools, on girl child education, and how organisations have tried to remedy it
2. Technology has proven to be a game-changer during the pandemic helping several sectors cope. But has it been the same for girls, especially those from under-resourced backgrounds?
3. It takes a village to raise a child, especially a girl child. So, how do community-led initiatives by various stakeholders contribute to ensuring girls are empowered and enabled to carve their own futures.

Shailesh was joined by a stellar panel comprising of  Shashank Pandey, the Co-founder of ConveGenius, an EdTech social startup with a vision of making quality education accessible to underprivileged children in India, Romonika D. Sharan, the project director for Strategic Partnerships at Central Square Foundation, an NGO working with the school education system to improve the learning capacities and outcomes of children coming from low-income families, Sonal Goel, a corporate professional turned bureaucrat who joined the Indian Administrative Service and has dedicated over a decade to the service of this country. She was selected in the Top 25 Women Transforming India, by the  United Nations, Niti Aayog and MyGov in September 2016 and was felicitated amongst 30 ‘Web Wonder Women’ by Twitter India and Ministry of Women & Child and Swati Jha, the programme director of the Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) at American India Foundation, a prominent non-profit committed to improving the lives of poor Indians with a focus on children, youth and women.

Shailesh is the Associate Director of Intellecap, and throughout his career, has closely worked in projects that involved a community-led transformation in grassroots India. From strengthening Van Panchayats in a remote village, Munsiari, Uttarakhand to leading multidimensional projects on climate change, agriculture, gender, public policy etc.  Shailesh has garnered invaluable experience in the developmental sector. 

To watch the video of The Better India webinar –  Click Here