Amit Kumar Singh Email & Phone Number

Delhi, India

South East Asia

impact investment,Biodiversity, Climate Change, Carbon market

India

Lucknow Area, India

The Sunhara Walmart project implemented by ASI and funded by the Walmart Foundation.This project targeted 2500 small, marginal Women Farmers and landless with focus on building rural, commercial systems for providing quality inputs, services and information to improve production practices, facilitate streamlined and profitable relationships with buyers, and address gender inequality following the two-prong approach of social and economic empowerment. You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajxE4OAeZNc News Paper: http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-some-farmers-are-relieved-to-be-dealing-with-walmart-145706.htm (First Post)News: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/far-from-fdi-cry-hapur-farmers-adore-walmart/209662-3.html

Partnership for Innovation and Knowledge in Agriculture (PIKA) project a $243,616 USAID project- Under this project, ACDI/VOCA developed market linkage opportunities for 10000 farmers using its signature value chain approach and the ICT application.

The Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (MPRLP) was operational in nine predominantly tribal districts (covering 3000 villages) of the state of Madhya Pradesh. The project aimed at protecting and augmenting livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable tribal populations and specially women. The project focused on strengthening of Gram Sabha as local self governance institution so as to strengthen the capacity of to plan and manage resources, to ensure equitable distribution of funds, and to protect and promote the interests of the poor and vulnerable, paying particular attention to access to resources, information and services.Project enhanced poor people’s livelihoods through a two-track strategy.First, strengthened the resource base. This means improving management of land, water and forest resources on which poor people depend through integrated watershed management and community forest management. Then, stimulated micro-enterprises based on these resources that provided employment and incomes for the rural poor.

Bhubaneswar

UNIDO started a cluster development programme in the state of Orissa as part of the DFID (Department of International Development of the UK) funded programme “Enabling Pro-Poor Economic Growth in Orissa”. This helped generate commitment among policy makers to the cluster development approach having a significant impact on poverty reduction.The objective of the UNIDO intervention was to support cluster development in a sector where the incidence of poverty is among the highest in the state, identify good practices for cluster development, and transfer them to relevant institutions for replication in other NTFP clusters. The project focused on revitalizing SHGs of primary collectors and processors andbuilding their capacities to undertake collective activities.www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_media/UNIDO.../Q_iii_2008.pdf

Bhopal Area, India

Established in 1993, MART is a pioneer in the rural domain and over the years has also developed as the Leading Consultancy and Knowledge based organization on Emerging Markets. MART enjoys a unique position as an end-to-end solutions facilitator for both the corporate and development sectors. Organisation successfully handled major assignments for both corporate and development sectors in Indian and abroad

Summer School, Women Entrepreneurship In Developing Countries

Entrepreneurship And Small Business Management In The Rural Sector, Small Enterprise Development

Msc. D.Economics, Agricultural Economics

Activities and Societies: Dissertation titled “Economic Analysis of Technological Change In Milk Production”, 2001. Published in Journal.

Bsc. Agriculture, Agricultural Sceinces

Activities and Societies: Agricultural SciencesSummer Internship in Tea management

Participatory Research And Pra Tools, Participatory Rural Appraisal And Social Research