Darilyn Syiem

Founder

Founder of Foundation for Social Transformation

Darilyn Syiem is the founding trustee of Foundation for Social Transformation [1], an Indian non-profit working on livelihood, human rights and arts & culture from Guwahati.

Darilyn Syiem is an Indian gender specialist from north-east India and one of the seven founding members of the Foundation for Social Transformation, an indigenous grant-making and philanthropic organisation registered in 2005 and based in Guwahati, Assam, which supports community organisations across the north-eastern states.

Early life and education

Syiem holds a master's degree in English literature.

Career

Syiem has worked for more than a decade on gender issues as a trainer, on gender sensitisation within institutions, and in advocacy for gender mainstreaming in policies and programmes. She has written two international publications on gender.

She is a consultant to the North East Network, a women's rights organisation working across the north-eastern states, and has served on the consortia advisory committee of India's National Agricultural Innovation Project, where she monitored the project's gender component.

She was one of the founding members of the Foundation for Social Transformation, alongside Jayanta Madhab, Joshomayee Devi, A. K. Nongkynrih, Sukhendu Debbarma, Sanamani Yambem and Monisha Behal. The foundation makes grants to and builds the capacity of community-based organisations across all the north-eastern states from its office in Guwahati.[2][3][4]

Foundation for Social Transformation

FST, started in 2005, is a not-for-profit philanthropic organisation conceived and led by people from Northeast India to support progressive grassroots initiatives across Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Tripura.

Foundation for Social Transformation reports the following, on its own site: