Professional Experience:
I have 21 years cross-sectoral work and research experience in extending Strategic Development Support through Partnership with NGOs / Resource Agencies (Government, Non-government and Corporates), Programme Development & Management, Fund Raising, Grant Making, Technical Guidance, Review, Impact Assessment, Knowledge Management, Documentation, Policy Analysis, Advocacy & Advisory, Capacity Building for Integrated Rural Development (especially through Local Self Governance) with major emphasis on Natural Resource Management (especially through sustainable use and conservation of land and water resources, ecosystem management, enhancing adaptability to climate change, energy & biodiversity conservation, disaster risk reduction) & Livelihood Promotion (especially through adoption of low cost environment-friendly technology, capacity building, financial inclusion, creating para-professionals, promoting livelihood collectives and establishing market linkage in the sector of small holder agriculture, small scale fisheries & aquaculture, animal husbandry and small scale rural & urban industries, with due importance to non-farm sectors through skill building of youths and women) for ensuring food & nutritional security, employment generation, enterprise development and enhancing livelihoods of the poor (especially women), aiming to poverty alleviation and climate resilient development.
I have been actively involved in different Knowledge Building processes including applied researches, baseline survey, term evaluation, thematic reviews & assessments, case study documentation, organizing learning sharing forums (workshop, seminar) on emerging issues relating to natural resource management & livelihood promotion (with special emphasis on Small Scale Rural Aquaculture & Fisheries and Small Holder Agriculture), climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, food and nutritional security and local self governance. With last assignment I have been involved in conducting base line survey and three major studies on Collectives, Agriculture & Value Chain Analysis of major agriculture, livestock & NTFPs (in relation with livelihood promotion of small scale SC-ST women farmers) in Kandhamal District, Odisha. At present, I am involved in valuation of different ecosystem goods (especially forest, agriculture & wetlands) and identification of bio-resources of economic value, capacity building of different stakeholders for institutionalising the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) mechanism of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, Government of India.
I have credential of publishing 1 Edited Book, 1 Electronic Book, 4 Book chapters, 3 Abstracts, 3 Case studies, 1 paper (in Bengali). I have presented my research findings in a number of seminars in India and abroad. I have also presented more than 20 invited lectures in different seminars across the country.