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Director

Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) and PRIA International Academy (PIA)

Delhi

India

Summary biography: 

Dr Kaustuv Bandyopadhyay works as the Director of Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) and PRIA International Academy (PIA). PRIA, a pioneer civil society organisation, based in New Delhi (India), works on citizen participation, democratic governance and civil society development since 1982. He has more than twenty -five years of professional experience with university, research institution and civil society. In these years, he has led and managed a number of domestic and international research and action learning projects on citizen participation, social accountability, civil society development and democratic governance in urban and rural contexts. He has extensively worked on capacity building projects with particular emphasis on participatory learning, monitoring and evaluation, organisation development, strategic planning, and participatory training methodology. Currently, he serves on the Steering Committee of Asia Democracy Research Network (ADRN) and Asia Democracy Network (ADN). Based on his practical experiences, he has authored and published several articles, manuals, books and other publications mostly in the Asian context. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology for his work with the Parhaiya tribes of Chotanagpur (Jharkhand) in India.