About: institutions I have worked with
A career spanning the field, the state, the funder and the fundraiser.
Bilateral and multilateral agencies
GIZ (UPNRM, with NABARD and KfW) · UNDP (Maharashtra and Jharkhand) · World Bank–supported Citizen Data Vault, Uttarakhand · DFID-supported hill livelihoods programme (SPWD)
Foundations and trusts
Tata Trusts and Himmotthan · Azim Premji Foundation · American India Foundation (MANSI maternal and newborn health) · L&T Public Charitable Trust
Government
Government of Uttarakhand: Bamboo & Fibre Development Board, Department of Urban Development and ITDA, Health Department · Government of Rajasthan: Bhamashah financial inclusion programme, with IL&FS
International NGOs
CARE India (health and nutrition programmes in Udaipur and Bhilwara)
Grassroots organisations and fundraising
Ibtada · Aajeevika Bureau · Jan Sahas · Rootbridge Services (for CRY, Oxfam, Breakthrough and others) · Umeed
Education and recognition
- Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), 1997–99
- B.Sc., Meerut University (now CCS University), 1993–96
- Finalist, World Bank Development Marketplace 2008, Washington DC — one of 100 finalists worldwide, with Umeed, for a proposal on internet kiosks and community radio stations in mountain villages
- Led the Government of Uttarakhand delegation at the World Bamboo Congress, New Delhi, 2004, covered in the press