Virendra Kumar Singh

Mr. Virendra Kumar Singh is a social and community development professional with extensive experience in programme management, social development, research, monitoring and evaluation, community engagement, social safeguards, gender mainstreaming, resettlement and rehabilitation, training and capacity building, and partnership coordination.

His professional experience spans a broad range of development sectors, including urban infrastructure and services, water supply and sanitation, slum development, elementary education, child rights and child labour, livelihoods, gender and social development, poverty alleviation, Panchayati Raj Institutions, and community development. He has undertaken responsibilities involving programme planning and implementation, social research, monitoring and documentation, evaluation, development of monitoring systems, stakeholder and community consultations, institutional strengthening, training, NGO partnerships, and social safeguards.

He has significant experience in social safeguards and resettlement and rehabilitation, particularly in large urban infrastructure and water and sanitation projects. His work has involved preparing and updating Resettlement Plans and safeguard documentation, developing Gender Action Plans, conducting field assessments, facilitating consultations with affected communities, supporting livelihood restoration activities, and ensuring compliance with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009.

He has also worked extensively on inclusive education, child rights and community development. His work with ASPIRE included supporting the development of an integrated MIS for monitoring project outputs and establishing participatory systems for research, monitoring, documentation and evaluation of programmes promoting inclusive and relevant elementary education among tribal children in Odisha and Jharkhand. Earlier, through CRY, he worked on eliminating child labour through universal quality elementary education and coordinated child-rights networks and advocacy initiatives in Uttar Pradesh.

He has undertaken action research and evaluation assignments for organisations including UN-HABITAT, UNDP, Charity Aid Foundation, Terre des Hommes, Germany, and Tearfund Netherlands. His experience combines field-level community engagement with programme monitoring, evaluation, institutional development, research, and development-sector documentation.

Past Positions: 

• Safeguard & Resettlement Expert - JPS Associates Pvt. Ltd., September 2021–April 2025
• Community Engagement & Social Development Expert -Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE), February 2019–August 2021
• Director, Research & Documentation - ASPIRE (A Society for the Promotion of Inclusive & Relevant Education), September 2016–May 2019
• Project Coordinator - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Patna Centre, September 2015–August 2016
• R&R and Gender Specialist - Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) Pvt. Ltd., September 2014–August 2015
• Social Safeguards & Gender Specialist - Tetra Tech-VISION EIS Consortium, August 2012–July 2015
• Social Development & Training Advisor - GHK Consulting, U.K. & IPE Global India JV, February 2007–February 2009
• Community Development Expert - JPS Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, May 2006–January 2007
• Director, Research & Monitoring - Udayan Care, New Delhi, April 2004–December 2005
• Project Associate & Partnership Coordinator - CARE India, New Delhi, January 2001–March 2004
• State Coordinator, Uttar Pradesh - Child Rights and You (CRY), New Delhi, August 1992–December 2000

Professional Associations: International Water Association, London; Voice of Partners, Uttar Pradesh

Educational Qualifications: M.A. in Sociology - Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1986

Publications / Reports:
United Nations Human Settlements Programme. (2014, December). Evaluation of BASF Stiftung UN-Habitat programme: Contribution towards sustainable development. UN-Habitat. https://unhabitat.org/evaluation-of-basf-stiftung-un-habitat-programme-contribution-towards-sustainable-development-december-2014?utm