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S Ajai Kumar is a New Delhi based Development Communication Specialist. Currently engaged as a Communication and Advocacy Officer in United Nations Development Programme, he is placed in the Ministry of Rural Development, under the  Governance and Accelerated Livelihood Security Programme, where he looks after the IEC component of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA. .

As a Communication Specialist, Ajai has an experience of more than sixteen years in development communication with reputed International and National organizations. He has hands-on experience in sectors like education, women rights, water and sanitation, health (HIV, AIDS), gender, and rural development.

Ajai has worked with International Organisations like UNICEF, Naz Foundation International, National Organisations like National AIDS Control Organisation, and State level organizations like Kerala Women’s Commission, World Bank aided Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (jalanidhi) and Kerala State AIDS Control Society, where he was actively involved in development and implementation of the IEC and BCC strategies. He has also worked with donors like the World Bank, GFATM and UNICEF through their donor driven projects.

A post graduate in Communication and Journalism, from the Dept of Communication and Journalism, University of Kerala, S Ajai Kumar is trained in reputed institutes like IRMA (on ICT, digital divide), MICA (on HIV Communications Management), UNAIDS, IIMC (on HIV Communications), CSE (on development communication and reporting) and TSF SA (on Health Systems Strengthening). He has more than 20 published works to his credit.

Ajai has written and directed 23 video documentaries, and seven radio documentaries.

He is a basket ball referee. Photography and Chess his  hobbies.