Summary

A practical, hardworking, experienced and highly motivated rural development professional with substantial proven experience in a diversified areas including participatory planning, grant management, development, design, effective management and scale up of programs, partnership development, contributing to country strategic plan, fund raising, capacity building of teams, monitoring and evaluation of programs and activities, policy advocacy, writing quality reports and mobilizing resources in India with the state governments, the UN agencies, ICRISAT, USAID and the leading INGOs. Task oriented, well organized, focused, and efficient person, with a practical, thorough, and precise approach to projects, and result oriented professional with good track record of producing excellent results to date. With better time management skills manages timeline effectively with priority to key program and project outputs; maintaining deadlines, delivering outputs as per deadlines and under considerab

Professional Experience

• Independent Consultantnov-2010 - oct-2012

  Independent Consultant

  a. Developing Integrated District Plan Document for Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh This task was assigned by UNICEF MP Office. Outcome of this assignment will be shared with all districts of Madhya Pradesh as base document and this will be treated as model document. It will be published by UNICEF jointly with State Planning Commission. This plan document covers all aspects related to district development. It provides an overview of district in the form of district profile and also defines major issues. With vision statement and defined objectives relating to vision statement given in one chapter. Further this document elaborate on goals and objectives of various department and decentralized planning process based activities. b. Documentation of case studies of ICRISAT SRTTSDTT supported Nutrient Management and Productivity Enhancement Project in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan. This ongoing assignment is for two month from 20th April to 20th May 2011. This assignment is as

• Adviser Natural Resource Managementoct-2012 - sep-2017

  Inspire Network for Environment, New Delhi

  Responsible to lead the capacity building component of an ambitious REDD readiness project funded by USAID. Working as Adviser, Natural Resource Management with Inspire Network for Environment, New Delhi and coordinating training and capacity building component of Forest PLUS Program funded by USAID, India. This is a national level program on climate change with Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Government of India. We are working in four State Forest Departments namely Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim. Was part of team who developed three curriculums on – 1. Basic orientation course on Global Climate Change, 2. Community-based Forest Carbon Measurement and 3. Ecosystem Approach to Forest Management. These three courses were developed mainly for state forest department officers. I have conducted number of capacity building courses using these curriculums in program states.

• Group Coornator- NRM, Senior Program Officer, Program Officeraug-1999 - feb-2005

  Association for Rural Advancement through Voluntary Action and Local Involvement ARAVALI, Jaipur, India

  1. Conducting training and capacity building programmes for partner organizations and government department officials including Forest Department, Watershed Department etc. 2. Mid-term evaluation of watershed development projects in Jaipur district. 3. Documentation of success stories in community development initiatives in the form of two pager known as Pahal Logo Ki in Hindi. 4. Helped various organisations in developing organisational livelihood perspective plans. Programme Officer 081999 – 032002, responsible for coordinating the ARAVALI Rajsamand Project Office and working in a team on a. Specific responsibilities included managing the office activities; liaison with government department at district level; helping project implementing agencies PIAs in developing community based project reports; developing monitoring systems at district level; sensitizing PIAs on community involvement processes; and providing support to partner organization under Management of Environmental Re

• State Coordinatorfeb-2005 - nov-2010

  Madhya Pradesh Society For Rural Livelihoods Promotion, Bhopal

   Contributed in developing remote access server based monitoring system as senior member. Later on managed MPRLP project monitoring task and did regular program monitoring.  Coordinated training on tree based farming approach for the project team members. The concept was introduced in nine districts of Madhya Pradesh and entire teams of these districts were trained on this concept.  Training of field staff on how to do plantation successfully and how to raise nursery in coordination with State Forestry Research Institute and Forest Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh. In addition, follow up of large-scale plantation programme in the field.  Coordinating activities related to Monitoring, Evaluation and learning at State Project Management Unit  Conducting training and capacity building programme and also coordinating the activities related to agriculture, watershed management, local self-governance, Participatory Irrigation Management and livestock management etc.  Develo

• Program Organiseraug-1996 - jul-1999

  Action for Social Advancement, Bhopal

  I was mainly responsible for implementation projects related to natural resource management, microfinance, and issues of decentralization, Panchayati Raj Institutions in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, responsible for coordination of programmes; leading teams in implementation of projects; organising and conducting training programmes; and developing resource materials.

Volunteering Experience

Not Specified

Awards & Certifications

• Special Category - Chief Minister Award for successful implementation of Participatory Irrigation ManagementSeptember-2010

  Naramda Valley Development Authority, Government o

  The award was given by Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India for successful implementation of Participatory Irrigation Management in two irrigation project as project leader on September 15, 2010 on the occasion of Engineers Day.

• Special Category - Chief Minister Award for successful implementation of Participatory Irrigation ManagementSeptember-2010

  Naramda Valley Development Authority, Government o

  The award was given by Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India for successful implementation of Participatory Irrigation Management in two irrigation project as project leader on September 15, 2010 on the occasion of Engineers Day.