Biswanath Sinha
- January 15, 2022
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In the development sector, in a career spanning about twenty-five years, worked at grassroots implementation; intermediary support role; capacity building and grant-making at the national level in the best of Indian organizations. The organisations served are Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD), Sa-Dhan, and Tata Trusts.
An omnivert still realising some dreams in autodidactive way. Perennial researcher. The occasional player when not stuck in traffic, self-proclaimed football pundit.
- Associate Director, Tata Trusts
- Total Duration: 16 yrs 3 mos
- Dates Employed: Apr 2014 – Present
- Employment Duration: 7 yrs 10 mos
- Location: Mumbai
- Senior Program Officer
- Dates Employed: Nov 2008 – Mar 2014
- Employment Duration: 5 yrs 5 mos
Location: Mumbai
It is India’s largest private donor today. I have handled more than 150 different projects there. A major achievement has been launching three big pan India programs on the system of rice intensification (SRI)- www.sdtt-sri.org; diversion-based irrigation (DBI) –www.livolink.org, and water supply and sanitation.Among other things, I have been involved also in Program and Institutional building. Some of the major initiatives on this are setting up Centre for Microfinance and Livelihood at Guwahati (please check www.cmlnortheast.com for more information) and Livolink foundation at Bhubaneswar.The area of expertise gained during this tenure is in the field of crop production enhancement, livestock, market-led livelihoods, employment and new economic jobs creation, water supply and sanitation and solar energy
- Program Officer
- Dates Employed: Nov 2005 – Oct 2008
- Employment Duration: 3 yrs
- Location: Mumbai
Oversaw the works on natural resources management and rural livelihoods.
- Senior executives, Sa-Dhan
- Dates EmployedFeb 2005 – Oct 2005
- Employment Duration9 mos
- LocationNew Delhi Area, India
Sa-Dhan is the Association of Community Development Finance Institutions in India with a membership based of 240 where most of the microfinance institutions (MFIs), Self help group promoting institutions (SHPIs) are members.
I have worked on capacity building of Sa-Dhan members and non-members in the field of microfinance. I initiated capacity building training program in underserved regions
- Program Officer, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD)
- Dates Employed: Aug 2000 – Feb 2005
- Employment Duration:4 yrs 7 mos
- Location: Dehradun
Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (www.spwdindia.org), New Delhi but was based at Dehradun.I have worked on the implementation of technologies appropriate for the Himalayan region in close collaboration with about two dozen NGOs in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Capacity building of the local NGOs in the field of natural resource management was a major component of my task.
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