SOIL Report 2008 - ACCESS Development Services

microfinance, microenterprise, education, vocational training, development of local people’s institutionsand participatory research in different aspects of development. She is an independent consultant to severalnational and international organizations. She is engaged in policy advice and advocacy for issues ofwomen’s empowerment, social protection, social inclusion, bonded labour issues, microfinance, impactassessments and knowledge sharing for development practice. She has an MA in Economics, an MBAfrom the Indian Institute of Management, a PhD from the University of Durham, UK, and researchlinks with the University of Berne, Switzerland.Sourindra BhatttacharjeeSourindra Bhatttacharjee, M Sc (Ag), Fellow Program in Management, Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad has over 12 years of experience in consulting in the field of rural development witha focus on rural finance and livelihoods. He has managed more than 40 projects for a wide range ofclients. These include bilateral and multilateral donor organizations, corporates and reputed nationaland international NGOs.V. PrameelaV. Prameela has been a micro enterprise and livelihood specialist for 15 years and has conducted variousimpact and evaluation studies. She has worked as a livelihood and micro enterprise consultant fornational and international clients. She works as a trainer and counselor in enterprise development andhas conducted several enterprise development training programs for both front line staff and directlyfor women at the grassroots level. She is working with Sampark, an NGO based in Bangalore andcoordinates projects on rural livelihoods, child care cum non-formal education centres and communitybased mental health. She is involved in fund raising and proposal writing.Vijay MahajanVijay Mahajan, Chairman of BASIX, was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, theIndian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and at the Woodrow Wilson school of Public and InternationalAffairs, Princeton University, USA. He co-founded PRADAN in 1983, Sa-Dhan in 1998 andAPMAS in 2000. He has co-authored a book “The Forgotten Sector” on the rural non-farm sector andwritten over 50 articles on rural livelihoods, development and microfinance. He is a member of theCommittee on Financial inclusion, the Microfinance Equity and Development Fund and is also on theBoard of CGAP, the global microfinance apex. He was selected “Outstanding Social Entrepreneur” bythe Schwab Foundation of the World Economic Forum, Davos, 2003.216