Raghunathan Narayanan

Background

About Raghunathan Narayanan

My passion is to facilitate solutions at a scale that eliminate inequities marginalisation hunger and poverty. I strongly believe that an integrated and people-centric ecosystem is a must which synergises strengths of various partners. The DNA for sustainable change and transformation is to have an eco-system that integrates four elements – Capacities of the Communities Efficiency of the Market Reach and Vision of the Facilitators and the Power of the State. Towards this I strive to design models and approaches test them nurture partnerships to reach scale and engage with policy to create enabling space. Expertise and Demonstrated Experience: Over two decades of experience in social development working across sectors geographies various profiles of target groups and geographies. Founding Director of Catalysts Group of Institutions (20 year old social investment group) which houses Catalyst Management Services (http://www.cms.org.in) Vrutti Livelihood Resource Centre (http://www.vrutti.org) and Swasti Health Resource Centre (http://www.swasti.org). The group has a combined strength of working across the levels supporting through both management and domain expertise and a large resource base Specific the areas of expertise - development project management impact and program evaluations program support and research market-based models of development; in agriculture livelihoods health education and governance domains. Has led and been a member of a number of impact and project evaluations reviews baseline studies organizational appraisals for various bilateral multilateral government civil society organizations and faith-based organisations.