As the Director of AF Development Care, Sachi works alongside 25+ staff/ consultants/advisors to guide their pan-Asia operations and partnerships with different country governments and government agencies. Sachi works closely with policymakers, civil society partners, and research institutions to promote collaborations to increase the use of evidence in policymaking and scale-ups of successful social programs in India and the South Asian region. As a passionate advocate for the use of evidence and data in decision-making, Sachi advises multilaterals and donors on effective spending on policy interventions that have the potential to bring transformational change in the lives of people living in poverty. 

He has over 19 years of experience in research, monitoring, evaluation, survey, capacity building program in health, gender, informal labour and livelihood projects in 16 countries with; World Bank (Evaluation of Health System Development project), UNFPA (Implementation of Health Management Information System (HMIS) project, Child Fund(partner monitoring and implementation of child-led projects), Global Fund/The International Union Against Tuberculosis and lung Diseases (The Union) (Tuberculosis Project), World Federation of haemophilia (WFH), Montreal, Canada (Regional Asia lead for project implementation). Mr. Satapathy has published 6 research journal papers,4 books and 50 op-ed in lead English newspapers. He is the receipiant of Infosys Young Achiever Award for his contributory work in the field of international development. 

• Geographic Experience; India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Thailand, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, Mongolia, Japan, Philippines, Afghanistan, South Korea, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, Jordan, Canada.
• Skill set conduct feasibility study, program design & implementation, project management, strategic planning, research, communication and advocacy, data collection, community consultations, methodological design, large sample quantitative exercises (2000+ surveys), analysis, report writing, multi-stakeholder partnership, assessment of organizational capacities. 
• Thematic knowledge:  Gender mainstreaming, Social Protection of women in unorganized sector, micro credit, Tuberculosis, Tobacco Control, Non-Communicable disease, public health program management
• Clients worked with: AFDC, FAO, UNFPA, World Bank, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), German Technical Cooperation, World Vision, Japan Quality & Accountability Network (JQAN).

Project Director to Following Monitoring, Evaluation, Capacity Building Projects, while working as Director, AF Development Care, (AFDC), New Delhi, India

• Multi-Country assessment (India, Myanmar) on Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH)
• Evaluation of tobacco control programs in South Asia with a special focus on India
• Feasibility Study of strengthening Sustainable Livelihoods in Kachin State and Northern Shan State in Myanmar (German Technical Co-operation & World Vision)
• Maldives Youth Tobacco Survey (MYTS) and assessment of organizational capacity to implement public health
• Evaluation of Women Beedi (tobacco) Rollers (Informal labour) Situation in India
• The impact of education programmes on learning and school participation in South Asia
• An End-Line Evaluation of Gender Based Violence Project in Nepal
• Reflecting the Past-Shaping the Future: An Assessment of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Implementation in India
• Strengthening Sustainable Livelihoods in Kachin State and Northern Shan State in Myanmar
• Knowledge Gap in Existing Research on India's Women Beedi Rollers & Alternative Livelihood Option

Research Journal Scientific Publications (from Project data)

• Estimation of Women Beedi Workers in India and Their Socio-economic Condition
• Comparison of Pulmonary Function in Females Using Clean Fuel and Biomass Fuel
• IMPACT OF DIABETES MELLITUS ON TREATMENT OUTCOME OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANT PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
• Mandatory TB notification in Mysore city, India: Have we heard the private practitioner’s plea?
• Strategy to End Tuberculosis
• SGSY Program in India Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and Social Disadvantage: Analysis, Case Studies and Policies, 2007
• SGSY Programme in India, in C. Tisdell (ed.) Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and Social Disadvantage: Analysis, Case Studies and Policies, Serials publications, 2007.
• The Functioning of Grama Panchayats in Karnataka, in T M Joseph (ed.) Local Governance in India: Ideas, Challenges and Strategies, Concept Publishing Company, 2007.
• Functions Undertaken by Grama Panchayats in Karnataka, in C Narasimha Rao (ed.) Rural Development in India: A Multi-Disciplinary study

Influential advocate on Global Development (featured news/published op-ed/ project works in mainstream media)

• South Asia leads the world in food insecurity
• No wall now to hide India's extreme poverty
• Little relief for vulnerable Indian cigarette rollers
• Rising tobacco use among rural Indian women demands action
• India urged to ramp up anti-tobacco policies
• Despite claims, India's poverty getting much worse
• Rich-poor gap worsening in India
• Sound the alarm: India is failing the End TB strategy on all counts
• Women in Distress: Employment of Beedi Workers
• Smokeless Tobacco Use In Work And Public Places Must Be Prohibited Akin To Smoking Ban
• Rich are getting richer, more people are going hungry in the global south. Why?
• Skill development focus must be on those engaged in hazardous conditions like women beedi rollers
• New study reveals the state of women beedi rollers in India
• Serious health hazards force women beedi workers in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka to quit profession amid COVID-19
• Low wages, high health costs: Poor, marginalized women beedi rolling workers face acute exploitation
• Despite paltry wages, women beedi rollers have few other job prospects, shows research; gender gap exacerbates matters
• Poor wages and lack of social security hurt women beedi workers
• Women Beedi Workers in India: An Empirical Analysis
• Smoking Tobacco: Teenagers, Adults, Children, Health Risks, Permissible Age, Legal Beedi, Cancer, Fine, COTPA
• Declare home beedi rolling hazardous: Study on TN, Karnataka workers
• Cigarette consumption highest in Karnataka
• Collective effort can make eight billion dreams come true
• TN beedi industry leaves women gasping for breath
• Tobacco consumption on the rise in rural women: Report
• Beedi workers: A tale of exploitation
• South Asia's food crisis is alarming
• What ILO report on forced labor means for India
• Making people quit tobacco faster in India
• Reaching out is the first step
• Sachi Satapathy
• Mongolia’s national TB program receives high praise
• Nutrition deficiency hobbles fight against TB
• Global TB report a wake-up call for India
• Global TB Report 2016: What it means for India
• Why Global TB Programme Needs More Civil Society Involvement
• Project Axshya: Battling Tuberculosis in India
• Locating TB hotspots to tackle a curable disease
• Global Tuberculosis Report: A wake-up call for India
• Strategies to End Tuberculosis
• Targeting elimination of tuberculosis among refugees in South Korea
• Impact of socio-economic factors on tuberculosis prevalence in South Korea
• The problem with govt's poverty line: Sachi Satapathy
• How To Stop 3,500 Tobacco Deaths Every Day In India
• Women Beedi Workers in India: An Empirical Analysis
• Why government must declare home-based beedi rolling as hazardous
• We cannot afford to fail
• Leaving women behind: Why are women not working in
• Diabetes: A serious threat to ending TB
• Locating TB hotspots to tackle a curable disease
• For an equal India: A look at details from the World Social Protection Report
• South Asia's worsening slavery situation
• Which South Asian country is performing on SDGs? Sorry, none
• Failing SDGs: A reflection of policy failure
• Nearly a billion women don't have the same economic rights as men in South Asia
• Why 1.4 billion people in South Asia are unable to afford a healthy meal
• Minimizing out-of-pocket health expenditure for India's poor
• High time we put the last man first
• How nearly 1 million women in India's southern states stopped beedi rolling
• Cigarette, beedi consumption highest in Karnataka: Report

Global Conference Presentations and high level government consultation 

• Maldives Vice President Meets Sachi Satapathy in Male
• WFH Asia head spoke at Plasma Protein Industry Summit, Beijing, China
• Mongolia Health Minister Meets WFH President Alain Weill and Asia Head Sachi Satapathy
• WFH Asia lead Sachi Satapathy spoke at Asia Haemophilia Summit
• WFH Asia lead Sachi Satapathy addresses to delegates at 15th Annual Congress of Asia Association of Transfusion Medicine, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• WFH Asia lead Sachi Satapathy spoke at Asia Haemophilia Summit, Dhaka Bangladesh
• Presented three papers at the 46th World Conference on Lung Health organized by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2 to 6 December 2015. The abstract book is available at this link, and the papers covered the following topics:
• "Are TB-related issues still not an agenda for Indian media? Analysis of TB-related news content in the last year" (Page no 145 of the abstract book).
• "Have I notified a TB patient today? Study of TB notification by private sectors after the introduction of Nikshya in India" (Page no 182 of the abstract book).
• "How to better equip private health service providers to fight tuberculosis in India: a study of the PHSP perspective on the challenges" (Page no 182 of the abstract book).
• Speaker at Plasma Protein Industrial Summit in Beijing, China, on 7th September 2017
• Speaker at the inaugural session of The 15th Annual Congress of Asia Association of Transfusion Medicine held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on 12th September 2019
• Presentation in the 20th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association Economic Policy Studies in Retrospect and Prospect
• Presentation at the 4th Bangladesh HaematoCon 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Books Published (from project reports)

• Women and Distress Employment- The Case of Beedi Workers
• Good Governance and Poverty Alleviation: A Study of SGSY Programmes in India
• Youth Vision 2020: Towards Building an India of Our Choice

Contact- director@afdc.in