A Development Professional,Red Ink Award winner, former Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow with more than eight years of experience in the development sector specifically in government, private as well as non-governmental organizations leveraging
strategic partnerships, launching high-impact programs and building resourceful organizational systems |
 Contact SURESH GHATTAMANENI
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural, Urban
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Director, CEO, COP, President
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Government/Governance, Reforms, Corruption
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research
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Professional Experience: |
SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY(SEEDS)
SEEDS is an employee driven Not for Profit of IL&FS Education and Technology Services working on delivering sustainable solutions in Education, Skill Development and Agriculture. With presence in 12 states, major work areas has been in implementing CSR projects of various Corporates, Local area education and economic development solutions with focus on Rural Entrepreneurship
Responsibilities/Achievements as Chief Executive Officer & General Secretary include:
Policy and Board relations: Pursued diversified partnerships with policymakers, multilaterals, corporations,foundations and individuals to raise Organization’s visibility; Successfully designed new organizational systems for increased efficiency and effectiveness; Established a plan for transformation of SEEDS into a hub for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods and Entrepreneurship; Liaised with the Governing Body to develop policies and programmes
Project Management: Provided operational, fiscal and strategic leadership to improve results. Successfully directed complex, mission-driven projects from concept to fully operational status; Administered and Supervised more than 30 Skill Development, Education and Agri-solutions projects ranging in value from $20,000 to $45,000,000 impacting lives of more than 12000 youth, farmers and women; coordinated with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure timely and accurate delivery of project deliverables
Communications and Strategy: Led development and implementation of first organization-wide Strategy and Communications policy
YUGANTAR
Responsible for proposal writing, project implementation, monitoring and coordinating various projects at Yugantar.
Monitoring and evaluation of a skill development initiative for the urban unemployed youth in the city of Hyderabad, in partnership with Tech Mahindra Foundation. Over the past twelve months, the “Tech SMART” team successfully trained more than 800 unemployed youth and providing employment for them
Played a key role in the formation of a non political civil society platform “Hyderabad Zindabad”, working on the issues of governance, infrastructure, heritage, civic engagement and budgeting in the city of Hyderabad.
Coordinated training programs for citizen activists and Residential Welfare Associations in the city on aspects of governance, infrastructure, health and education.
Played a key role in ideation, proposal writing and implementation of short and long-term development projects such as the Ministry of Rural Development’s Integrated Watershed Management Program etc., Funders include the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Action Aid India, IDRC and others.
Partnered with ThinkSoft Consultants on ‘Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas’ (PURA) – a Public Private Partnership (PPP) project for the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
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Education: |
Masters in Mass Communication and Journalism, Osmania University: I've chosen this course to get wider exposure on varied range of topics across the development spectrum. I have been freelancing for various digital magazines such as firstpost.com, scroll.in and yahoo originals apart from contributing to the news tabloid published by the university. A paper on advocacy by the media for dalit cause co-authored by me was published in the college journal.An article on urban development- the new capital region of residual AP co-authored by me and published in Yahoo Originals has won the prestigious Mumbai Press Club's Red Ink Award for Excellence in Journalism Award,2016.
2009, Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, JNTU-H; Graduated in the stream of mechanical engineering with a distinction (79%). Served as the president for a technical club in the college and it's prestigious national level symposium. Excelled in academics as well as other co-curricular activities right from my schooling.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
GENERAL
Is Capital Fever Making Vijayawada ill? – a RED INK Award winning long, deeply-researched piece for Yahoo Originals examining residual Andhra Pradesh’s proposed capital
ARTS COLLEGE- More than an educational Hub – a short piece in the Osmania Courier, the official journal of the Osmania University Department of Mass Communication
Privatisation of Forests - an opinion piece for scroll.in, an independent news portal
Politics of Discontent and Affirmative Action – a social commentary in firstpost.com, a digital magazine
Hyderabad Polls: Participative Governance – an op-ed on Governance in Hyderabad in firstpost.com
ACADEMIC
From the Bottom Up: A Journey of PMRDFs – a book on projects taken up by PMRDFs of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in their respective geographical areas.
Advocacy and the role of Media – co-authored a paper in ‘Interface’ a half yearly research journal (ISSN:2231-0274) on the role played by media supplementing the efforts of Centre for Dalit Studies(CDS), Hyderabad in the passage of SC-ST Sub Plan Act 2013
• Social Media Dialogue: A case of selective exposure through Cognitive Dissonance- co-authored and presented a paper which was published in Social Science Congress
AWARDS & HONORS
Awarded for the service done in flood relief operations in 2012 coordinating between district administration and stranded villagers in Bhadrachalam and surrounding areas.
Served as the student president of “The Robotics Club”, which had more than 150 members and it’s annual festival “Roboveda” attended by more than 2000 students from all over the country in 2008.
Rajya Puraskar Awardee at the age of fifteen, as a member of Bharat SCOUTS and GUIDES (appreciation by the Governor for the service done to the society)
Played a key role in the formation of Hyderabad Zindabad, a civil society platform working on various issues in hyderabad.
Fluent in English, Telugu and Hindi
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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