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.    

Debuja has more than 18 years of experience in the area of Women Institution Building & Capacity Building, HIV/AIDS, Livelihood Promotion and Social Research. He is a Post Graduate in Sociology from Sambalpur University, Odisha. His experience in development sector that includes District Manager with RAJEEVIKA, UNV with UNDP, Research Specialist with Govt. of Odisha and with various well-known NGOs in Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar & New Delhi. At present he is engaged as Team Leader at Dariba Location in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan.  

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.    

Alim has more than 15 years of experience in the development sector that includes Subject Matter Specialist (Agriculture), Project Manager MKSP with PRADAN. He holds a Graduate degree in Agriculture Sciences from B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra (UP). His area of expertise is Livelihood promotion, Women Institution Building & Capacity Building. At present he is engaged as a Team Leader at Kayad Location in Ajmer district of Rajasthan.  

Bhawani is working as a Team Leader–HRD. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Symbiosis University and BA from College of Vocational Studies at Delhi University. She Joined Manjari in March, 2021 and brings with her an extensive experience of HR Management for almost a decade of working in development sector and other corporate sectors. She is based in our Delhi office and is responsible for major functions of HR including recruitment through campus and off-campus process and executing the pre-joining and joining process of our new recruits. She manages online recruitment through job portals like DevNetjobs, TimesJobs and Naukri. She also manages staff capacity building programs and handles offer letters, transfers, leave records, HR policies and separation.  

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.