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45 years in natural/forest resource management,carbon storage, watershed/ participatory development, agro/community forestry.Former head of forest service Punjab, ranked among top five officers of India state.Demonstrated ability to prepare and manage development projects, communicate effectively.Master's degrees in Forest Management ANU Australia,and in Economics from India. B.Tech IIT Delhi. |
 Contact Anand Dogra
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural, Urban
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Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research
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Private Sector, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Professional Experience: |
As head of the Forest and Wildlife Department in Punjab State, guided forest and wildlife conservation efforts in the State. In 2002, I steered tranche I of the JBIC (now JICA) forestry project (1998-2002) with an outlay of about US$ 55 million to its successful completion. The main activities were reforestation including ANR/enrichment planting, silvi-pasture, and afforestation of problematic sites such as degraded, alkaline and waterlogged lands, soil and water conservation, entry point activities to elicit people’s participation, joint forest management and monitoring and evaluation. Other important activities were estimating the tree growing stock, carbon storage, REDD+, climate change and
Immediately thereafter, I conceived and successfully concluded negotiations with the JBIC (now JICA) for a new forestry project (tranche II) with an outlay of more than US$ 50 million for a five- year period. Tranche II was a far more comprehensive project. Project activities include afforestation/reforestation, agro forestry, forest research, monitoring and evaluation of impact of intervention on forests/environment, capacity building including urban forestry/horticulture, people's participation and Joint Forest Management, wildlife & biodiversity conservation soil and water management on watershed basis, infrastructure development, benefit sharing among stakeholders and their contribution toward project implementation, operation and maintenance. Understanding people's need is considered vital and active participation of women and measures to reduce poverty through alternate livelihood strategies were important components of the project. Awareness generation and capacity building of stakeholders was another important component of the project.Other important activities were growing stock estimation, carbon storage, REDD+, Climate change/sustainable development.
As Director of a watershed development project, guided a multidisciplinary team drawn from six organizations in Punjab in the implementation and successful completion of a World Bank assisted multi-state integrated watershed development project from 1991 to 1992 and again from 1996 to 2002. The main development objective was to arrest and reverse environmental degradation in the shivalik hills/watersheds, which even though largely community and private forests have, to a fair extent, ‘open access’.
This was followed in 1999 by phase-II of the project with even greater stress on multi-stakeholder participation, conflict mitigation and institution building including formation of self help groups, poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods for women and other disadvantaged groups, cost sharing and ‘bottom up’ planning for sustainable and inclusive development. Project interventions were in the areas of forest conservation and development including ANR/enrichment planting, community & agroforestry, soil and water management including check dams, water harvesting, dry land agriculture, horti
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Education: |
B.Tech (Civil Engg.) IIT Delhi 1967
Associate of Indian Forest College FRI Dehradun(equivalent to Masters degree) 1972
M.A (Economics) Punjab University Chandigarh 1978
M.Sc. in Forest Management (Forest Economics) A.N.U Canberra, Australia 1981
16-week course in micro-computers Chandigarh 1991- 1992
15-week course on Agricultural Project Planning with microcomputers UK 1992
10-day course on Financial Management and Disbursement of World Bank Financed Projects.
Turin, Italy 2000
Conducted research on Forest planning and development at Oxford Forestry Institute, Oxford for eight weeks in 1992; also attended the Oxford Tropical Forestry conference there.
• Participated in a workshop on agroforestry at Bangor, Wales for ten days.
• Attended a three- week summer school on conservation breeding of endangered species at Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust at Jersey in the Channel Islands of UK in 1995.
ONLINE Courses completed after retirement
• Six-week course on Introduction to Ecosystems from Open University, U.K., 2014.
• 14-week multi-disciplinary course: The Age of Sustainable Development, Prof. Jeff D Sachs, Columbia University, USA, 2014.
• Six-week course on Forests and Livelihoods in Developing Countries, UBC, Canada. Feb 2015.
• Four-week course on Forests and Humans: From Midwest to Madagascar, University of Wisconsin, USA, 2015.
• Four-week course on Climate Change Policy and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, USA, 2015.
• Five-week course on Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia. Lund University. Sweden. 2016
• Six-week course on Environmental Law and Policy,2017. Univ of North Carolina, USA
• Five-week course on Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development, University of Geneva
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Ex-Chairman, State Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Punjab
• Ex- Member Forest Advisory Committee, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India
• Ex-Member, National Zoo Design Committee, CZA, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India
• Ex-Member Advisory Management Committee, R.C. Solan, National Afforestation & Eco-development Board, MoEF
• Fellow, Academy of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Dehradun.
• Member Global Society of Online Foresters
• Winner of Brandis Prize for best research papers in Silviculture 2005
• Ex-Referee/Judge for selection of articles for Indian Forester, FRI, Dehra Dun.
• Have contributed more than 40 technical articles for journals, international seminars and conferences. Some of the papers were written after retirement.
• Have studied forest development and nature conservation in Australia, UK, South Africa, Brazil, Italy and China during study trips.
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Hindi, Punjabi, A bit of French |
Nationality:
Indian
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