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Shomita Kundu
Shomita Kundu is a social impact strategy and leadership practitioner-coach with grassroots level experience in integrated livelihoods planning and implementation. Currently looking after the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning function at Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation, Shomita holds experience across India and Norway in facilitating organisational and programme development with large multistakeholder groups. She has worked at organisations such as TISS, GIZ and IIHS, contributing to research, capacity development, programmes and partnership building functions.
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Odisha Millets Mission: An update at the end of IYM 2023
In the sixth and final post of the e-Symposium on ‘Carrying forward the promise of International Year of Millets’, Banerjee and Kundu discuss the extent to which policies implemented as a part of the Odisha Millets Mission improved the production, processing and procurement of the crop. Building on previous work by the Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation, they also look at how the Mission was impacted by Covid-19 and other challenges including poor awareness and public perception. They highlight how Odisha's efforts, preceded the International Year of Millets 2023, and how its success can become a model for other Indian states to follow.
