Naresh Nain is working as a Program Director in Manjari Foundation and is based at Udaipur Rajasthan. He has over 16 years of rural development experience working with Professional Assistance for Development Action and Manjari Foundation in villages of red corridors of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. He has completed a master in English literature and Master in business administration (MBA) from Kurukshetra University. He has been awarded a Netherlands Fellowship and completed development courses from Wageningen Netherland. He studied in South Africa and Indonesia as well. He has formulated, designed, implemented and supervised livelihood-based projects funded by corporate, philanthropic, government and CSR as well. His expertise areas are community mobilization, building their institutions like Self-Help Groups, federations, and producer companies for promoting sustainable livelihoods. He is the instrumental to replicating SHG model in West Africa Mali and Senegal. He is also empanelled as a National Resource Person by NIRDPR Hyderabad and supporting state SRLMs for implementation of National Rural Livelihood Mission project. He is also appointed Certified Sustainability Assessor by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He has been working committee member in the sub-group on Women Empowerment and Security formed by NITI Ayog. He is also part of member in the livestock development committee formed by government of Rajasthan.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar is the founder Executive Director of Manjari Foundation based at Dholpur Rajasthan for last two decades having intense engagement and experience rural development experience. He started his career with Professional Assistance for Development Action (www.pradan.net) Dholpur and still continuing work across Rajasthan, Bundelkhand, central India and West Africa. He holds a B.Tech in Agricultural Engineering from Punjab Agriculture University Ludhiana, Punjab, India and Masters in Sustainable International Development majored in Development Economics from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Waltham, Boston, MA, USA. He was awarded a prestigious International Ford Foundation Fellowship for the period of 2006-08 given his commitment to the cause of social justice, poverty eradication, and women empowerment. Over the years he has been instrumental in shaping favourable and socially inclusive policies at the state and centre level with a mission of poverty eradication and women empowerment. He has been working committee member in various groups with rural development department, livestock and dairy departments, cooperative departments of the government of Rajasthan. Sanjay has professional experience and expertise in formulating, designing, implementing, monitoring and supervision of development projects, which include social mobilization, institution building, pro-poor livelihood value chain development, organizational development and advocacy and public policy formulation in rural development sector. He has founded and mentoring several women institutions and women enterprises in order to improve the economic freedom to the women farmers across the hinterlands of Rajasthan and Bundelkhand. ( www.katori.co.in, www.upaya.co.in ). He also has vast experience of working with international development organization and oversees which included Cambodia, Kenya, Mali and Senegal.

Harendra Kumar, who is having a background of “Development studies and Human rights” and also having more than 23 years of experience in the core area of poverty alleviation programs, health, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, education, livelihood and advocacy and livelihood enhancement through institution buildings. He worked with well-known organisations like SRLMs, Gandhi Ashram, Ekta parishad, TAAL, SRIJAN, SIDS in the states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Currently, he is based at Chittorgarh (Rajasthan) and working as a team leader with our dedicated team at grassroots among rural community to enhance the livelihood opportunities and try to have lived a decent quality of life with dignity.

Prabhu has been associated with Manjari Foundation since 2016. He is anchoring Women Institution Program and SHG MIS Software (Safal Saral Software) in the organization. He holds a degree in MSW from J.R.N. Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth University, Udaipur. He has worked with leading organisations such as Rajeevika, Seva Mandir, CAPART and Tarun Bharat Sangh. His core areas of expertise include strengthen women institutions through capacity building and financial management. He has total working experience of 15 years in Women Institutions and their Capacity Building. He is based at State Resource Cell, Udaipur and implementing “Sakhi” Project, the flagship project of Hindustan Zinc at 7 locations of Rajasthan and Uttrakhand State.  

Rampal has been associated with Manjari Foundation since 2019. He holds a degree in MSW from IGNOU. He is having more than 16 years of experience in strengthening women institutions through capacity building, livelihood generation, sustainable agriculture with Zero Budget Farming, cadre development. He worked with Rajeev Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana (up) and Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative Limited under DPIP Project. Currently Mr. Rampal is based at Location Zawar, Udaipur (Rajasthan) and implementing “Sakhi” Project, the special initiative of Hindustan Zinc.    

Anmol is currently posted at Seondha block of Datia district as a Team Leader and he is working on child development & rights protection through Community Institution Building in the rural areas of Bundelkhand with our partner Kindernothilfe, Germany. He is post graduated from NIRD, Hyderabad. Post that, he incepted his career from Directorate of Rural Development, Haryana as a YP under National Rurban Mission, where he got wide experience of working with various government department under multiple schemes while reporting the same to Ministry of Rural Development. He is also having a good experience working in LetzDream Foundation, where his key deliverables were to strengthening the Community Institutions and provide them different types of trainings.    

Vinod is currently engaged as a Team leader for enterprises development at our Dholpur (Rajasthan) location. He holds a master’s degree in Social Work from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya (MP) and a Graduate degree from Dr. BR Ambedkar University Agra (UP). He is having total of 8 years of experience in women's social enterprises development, Women Institution Building, Capacity Building programs, Livelihood promotion.    

Ajay is a senior grassroots development professional with more than 18 years of experience. He has gained deep expertise working with the underprivileged communities, women institution building, livelihoods, integrated natural resource management and mobilizing rural communities. He received a degree in agriculture engineering from MPUAT-Udaipur and MBA in Rural Management from JNU - Jaipur. He was also engaged with PRADAN, Ambuja Cement Foundation, Gramin Vikas Trust, CECOEDECON and CTAE (MPUAT- Udaipur) in the leading position. Currently, he is leading and managing the operations in the Bundelkhand region, which is one of the most backward regions in the country. He is based at Tikamgarh in MP. He is incharge of donor relations, project management and team management in that region as a program officer. He is extending his support to the Manjari Foundation for the formulation of new proposals, budgets and process designing. He also extends his technical support to Bundelkhand Development Consortium (BDC), which is network of 10 NGOs in the Bundelkhand region.

He has associated as a Project Manager in Manjari foundation, SAMUDAY Project under HCL Foundation at Hardoi District (U.P). He has 5 years’ experience in development Sector. Ha has support of Poverty reduction and sustainable Livelihood program though Community Institution. He has completed MBA-RD from Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute Allahabad. He has worked with leading organisations such as Samaj Pragati Shayog, SRIJAN, UPSRLM, and Satin Credit Care. His Core area of expertise is Women Community Institution Building & Capacity Building, Livelihood Promotion, and Data Management.

Mr. Amaresh Tyagi is the Team leader for enterprises development at Manjari Foundation and based at Chittorgarh. He holds a master’s degree in Master of Social Work from Shobhit University, Meerut and B.Sc. from Jaipur University (Raj.). He has 9 years of experience in women social enterprises development domain. He is expert in Women Institution Building, Capacity Building, Livelihood promotion, and formulating, designed and promoting enterprises at grass root.