Dilshad
Alumni of the Year 2022–24Year of Joining the Fellowship - 2022
He is currently a Policy Manager at J-PAL South Asia, and was a P A Sangma Fellow of the first cohort from July 2022 to April 2024. At J-PAL, he manages government partnerships, supporting evidence-to-policy initiatives, and contributing to the scale-up of evidence-based programs within the government systems. In particular, he facilitates system adoption and institutionalization of the Graduation approach (a globally proven poverty alleviation intervention) both at Union and State governments level.
Dilshad plays a central role in strengthening J-PAL South Asia’s engagement with JEEViKA (Bihar SRLM), and other departments of the Government of Bihar, supporting evidence generation, dissemination and knowledge transfer efforts related to Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (Graduation approach model adapted by JEEViKA). He also leads J-PAL South Asia’s collaboration with Government of Meghalaya’s MSRLS for new evidence generation on Samaveshi Ajeevika Yojana (Ministry of Rural Development’s national scale-up of Graduation approach and implemented by MSRLS in Meghalaya).
Previously, Dilshad worked with Invest India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India where he engaged closely with the North Eastern State Government’s sectoral departments and agencies to help them with updating their industrial policy, benchmarking, investment ecosystem strengthening, and capacity building. As a P A Sangma Fellow with the Government of Meghalaya, Dilshad had worked with different departments on several crucial projects. Some of them are; Meghalaya Mental Health and Social Care Policy 2022, Chief Minister Safe Motherhood Scheme, Meghalaya Police Manual, and Meghalaya Law Manual.
Dilshad holds a Master’s in Public Policy from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru and a Bachelor of Technology from People’s University.