Mr. Prasant Mohanty
Executive Director
Prasant is the founding member of NIRMAN and is currently serving as Secretary-cum-Executive Director.
Prasant is a founding member of NIRMAN and is currently serving as Secretary-cum-Executive Director. He has more than 26 years’ experience in rural development, safe food system and natural resources governance. Apart from his expertise, he had a dynamic role in influencing rights-based concerns in areas of community forestry and ecological farming and small-scale fishery. Institutional issues in community forestry and forest governance always attracted his attention leading him to contribute significantly in these areas
His interests include tenure security, ecological farming, natural resource management and governance, sustainable energy solutions, improving market access, technologies for social development. The academic portfolio includes MA in Development Planning & Administration. He is responsible for the Programme Management, resources mobilisation, strategic planning and organisation development within the Organization and is also associated with various networks within India and abroad.
