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His deliverables in HR Systems include Designing / Redesigning the Organization Structure, Roles & Responsibilities Mapping, Developing the Employee Policy Manual, Designing and Implementing the Performance Management System, Doing Competency Mapping. Apart from the HR Systems he also carries the knowledge of Statutory Compliance, US Staffing Industry.

Ms. Archana Joshi is the Director of Deepak Foundation, a registered civil society organization established in 1982.

Her expertise is in the areas of designing projects aimed at achieving sustainable development goals and developing systems for monitoring and evaluation in various development sectors such as public health & nutrition, women’s empowerment, education, skills building & livelihood, disability & special needs and providing disaster relief and rehabilitation. Her major focus is on developing and implementing evidence based intervention research projects. As the Head of the Foundation, she has been instrumental in:

• partnering with various Corporates for implementing their CSR activities since 2012-13
• scaling up the operations of the Foundation to establish Pan-India presence
• designing and implementing large scale public private partnership projects aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since 2005
• establishing systems for conducting evidence based research and evaluation
• replicating successful models across various locations
• promoting women entrepreneurship
• policy advocacy

She is a member of the Ethics Committee Technical Review Committee of various academic institutions. She is a member of Internal Complaints Committee on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) as well as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) in various Companies and Institutes. She is the fellows of Aspire Circle, a not-for-profit forum that promotes social leadership in India through Fellowships and Research with the purpose of building India’s foremost Social Leadership forum (http://aspirecircle.org/fellows/). She was a member of the World Bank – Health, Nutrition and Population Civil Society Consultative Group (WB-HNP CSCG) from 2013-16. Her research papers are published in several international journals and conference proceedings.

• National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), New Delhi




• State Institute of Health and Family Welfare (SIHFW), Gandhinagar, Gujarat




• Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi




• Foundation for Research in Health Systems (FRHS), Bengaluru, Karnataka




• Indian Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat




• Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH – G), Gandhinagar, Gujarat




• Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Baroda Medical College, Gujarat




• Department of Pediatrics, Baroda Medical College, Gujarat




• Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, M. S. University of Baroda, Gujarat




• Parul Group of Institutes, Waghodia, Gujarat

• Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gujarat




• Department of Women & Child Development, Government of Gujarat, Gujarat




• Tribal Development Department (TDD), Government of Gujarat, Gujarat




• Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company (GLPC), Dept. of Rural Development, Gujarat




• Gujarat State AIDS Control Society (GSACS), Ahmedabad, Gujarat




• Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO), Gandhinagar, Gujarat




• School Board, Pune Municipal Corporation, Maharashtra




• National Commission for Women (NCW), Delhi




• Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India




• National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Government of India

• PATH Vaccine Solutions, a non-profit organization and affiliate of Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle, Washington, USA




• Sanford World Clinics, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.




• Serum Institute of India Ltd. (SIIL), Pune, Maharashtra.




• The World Bank, Washington, USA




• Jan Sawsthya Abhiyan- People’s Health Movement (Secretariat), Gujarat




• Sajjata Sangh – a network of NGOs engaged in Participatory Management of Natural Resources, Gujarat

• * Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950- No. E.3122-BARODA dated November 22, 1982
  Registered under Foreign Registration Act (FCRA), 1976- No. 041960088 dated June 17, 2011
• * Our Ethics Committee is registered under Rule 122DD of Drugs and Cosmetics Rules 1945.
• * The Foundation is committed to contributing its share in social development with compliance to the statutory and regulatory requirements, wherever applicable. We are committed to quality, integrity and excellence in all areas of social services. We pledge to monitor our performance as an on-going activity and strive for continual improvement.

The Foundation is committed to contributing its share in social development with compliance to the statutory and regulatory requirements, wherever applicable. We are committed to quality, integrity and excellence in all areas of social services. We pledge to monitor our performance as an on-going activity and strive for continual improvement.

Hailing from Anjar Bhuj, Gujarat, Naki Rabari completed her graduation from GMN Nursing College in Lakhond Bhuj in 2017. She joined the Certificate Course for Community Health run by Deepak Foundation.

Despite being a mother of a10-month-old baby, Naki decided to pursue the course. Her grit and confidence never stopped her from completing the course. She was facing family-related problems when she had to miss a few classes. She gradually covered the course with the help of her batchmates and teaching faculty. On completion of the course, she is posted at the Community Health Office in Anjar taluka. She is the first woman from her village who took the plunge of enrolling in six months course, leaving behind her infant child with her parents.

11-year-old Sameer Rathodiya (name changed), native of Por village, Vadodara district has been addicted to tobacco chewing ever since he was 5-year-old.  A student of class 5, lives Navinanagri slums where major percent of the population are daily wagers. Mahesh started chewing Tobacco when he was 5-year-old. Deepak foundation works in collaboration with Godrej (Cartiny) in this area for women empowerment and child life skill development. The Foundation conducts awareness and counselling sessions for adolescents and young adults for their development, education health, nutrition, hygiene (WASH), environment issues, life-skills and various career options. Through Deepak Foundation’s intervention, counselling of more than 70 childrens.