Shilpa Adelkar

Shilpa is the Associate Programme Director in the TARA trial under the Prevention of Violence against Women and Children programme in Kurla. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from Nirmala Niketan College, Mumbai and has a Diploma in Counselling from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). She has 16 years of experience in the development field, majorly implementing programmes. She was part of the Linnaeus Palme student exchange programme with the Social Work Department, Stockholm, where she represented the College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan. She has also worked as a visiting faculty for the undergraduate students of Social Work at Nirmala Niketan. She is passionate to work on issues of gender, adolescents, community and HIV/AIDS. She believes in partnership with communities and stakeholders to achieve sustained outcomes. Along with programme implementation, she enjoys imparting training and interacting with various groups.