Member

Namratha Ramanan

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Slachthuisstraat, 35 C, Gent 9000 Belgium

Belgium

Research Consultant

Associated Partner of C-Lever.org

Namratha Ramanan is finalizing a PhD in Psychology and Educational Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium with an expertise in children’s and human rights. Her research has focused on familial separation in the context of live-in child domestic work in India. She is a highly skilled and creative researcher, specializing in designing and conducting qualitative research, conducting research with vulnerable communities, contextual interviewing, qualitative and quantitative data analysis and project management. She has conducted empirical studies with laborers in slavery and slavery-like situations in coffee plantations in India, child laborers in informal labor sectors like domestic work, elderly and child care provision, street vendors among others and desk-research on child labor in the cocoa sector.
Originally from India, Namratha has been involved with community-based, culturally relevant projects to address child and human rights violations, the most recent of which has been as a member of the working group of ‘Youth and Decent Work’ for Beyond Chocolate where her main contributions were to evaluate the effectiveness of human rights due diligence promises in self-declared sustainability protocols of chocolate manufacturing companies and development of indicators to evaluate further impact of programs aimed at reducing child labor in Ivory Coast and Ghana.
She also holds a MSc. in Forensic Odontology from KU Leuven, Belgium. This diverse educational background lends itself to her conducting projects from a pragmatic yet humanitarian approach.

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  • Belgium
  • India

  • 01.d. Analysis of the ‘governance’-system at organisation and/or sector level
  • 01.e. Development / promotion / implementation of concepts / standards of good governance
  • 03.f. Results based management and Monitoring & Evaluation (Including: client/stakeholder focus, defining / using quality standards and performance indicators, management dashboards, balanced scorecard, …)
  • 03.h. Policy evaluations
  • 07.a. Design / formulation of projects / programs (including intervention strategies, theories of change, outcome mapping, technical / financial program documents, etc.)
  • 07.b. System-based context analysis – base line studies
  • 07.e. Mid-term and final evaluations of projects and programmes
  • 07.f. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
  • 08.a. Gender policy and strategies
  • 09.g. Due Diligence Assessments / Capacity assessment of (existing / potential) partner organisations (e.g. program implementing partners)
  • 09.h. Mid-term reviews and final evaluations of projects and programmes of international development cooperation (Including theory-based evaluation)
  • 09.i. Impact evaluastions
  • 10.a. Qualitative and quantitative surveys
  • 10.f. Academic courses and training
  • 12.d. Fostering and protecting human rights
  • 12.e. Fight against sexual violence
  • 12.i. Reuniting conditions of success, risk management and monitoring with respect to: human rights, peace and social cohesion – Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD)
  • 16.b. Strengthening civil society
  • 16.c. Fostering equal opportunities for and empowerment of minorities, underprivileged interest groups
  • 16.e. Youth policy