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Namrata Jaitili

Head of Programmes

Dr. Namrata Jaitli is Head , Programmes at Charities Aid Foundation, India since April 2014 . Prior to that she was Deputy Director in Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), an international Centre for Learning and Promotion of participation and democratic governance. She has a strong academic background and multi-functional experience of 20+ years in empowering marginalized communities, strengthening capacity building and knowledge generation initiatives. She has progressive knowledge on citizen participation, participatory development, and institutional development and is academically proficient with PhD in Social Work, MA in Social Work and BA in Psychology (Hons), coupled with numerous international & national workshops attained throughout the career span. Her core competencies include capacity building /training, monitoring and evaluation, research, networking , programme management and knowledge management, and has acquired multi-cultural and diverse exposure to different countries like Afghanistan, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Tanzania, Nepal, China, Canada, UK, USA, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. She has executed projects on women empowerment and decentralized water management; providing capacity building and educational support to development professionals and institutions on participatory methodologies; monitoring, evaluations and conducting research on development and governance issues; convening multi-stakeholder policy dialogues; networking with different stakeholders like community, NGOs , Government, Academia and Donors; and building and implementing institutional project management and knowledge management systems.

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