User:Manish Sacchidanand Jha/sandbox

Manish K Jha is a social scientist by training from Delhi School of Social Work (2007-09); He has been actively engaged with issues related to Social Development, Livelihood, Human Rights, Gender, and Advocacy for over 10 years. He began his journey of empowerment for the rural poor in 2000-2007 at Orissa with a voluntary organization, from 2009 to 2011, he worked with Labour-Net a Bengaluru based voluntary organization MAYA and Labour Department Haryana. His work with Labour-Net was focused on supporting innovative Labour welfare initiatives for development and empowerment of migrated marginalized people, especially women, in Gurgaon and Faridabad who came to Delhi and NCR as a dreamer and landed at Construction sites or being used as Domestic Help. Manish K Jha works entailed organizing training and workshops and facilitating networking between NGOs, Real Estate companies and Construction Companies.

From March 2011 to August 2013 Manish worked with www.apneaap.org (Apne Aap Women World Wide India Trust) as State Coordinator, Bihar and later at New Delhi Country Office as Senior Program Associate (An organization which vision is the day when no girl or woman can be bought or sold for sex; when the purchase of sex is considered unethical, illegal and prostitution is considered a priority public issue of violence against girls and women in each family, community and the state. One of world’s leading grassroots Anti Trafficking organization dedicated to organize communities especially women and girls in India to battle against human trafficking. It worked with women and girls who are victims and survivors of prostitution, at risk of trafficking and are vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Apne Aap advocated self-help, self-organizing and self-empowerment to dismantle the system of sex-trafficking. It collectivized victims to rescue and serve each other and ask for access to education, safe housing, legal protection and dignified sustainable livelihoods as basic rights. It organizes victims to speak out against the severe injustice of their own situation and the demand for purchased sex. Apne Aap works in collaboration with J/TIP, NOVO Foundation, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNODC, ASSET India Foundation, NOMI Network, Heifer Foundation, Rural Shores, Husk Power Ltd and many other leading funding organizations and partners with many leading organizations worldwide.)

Currently, Manish K Jha is working with Himmotthan-Sir Ratan TATA Trust at Uttarakhand as Program Manager-Education

Along with this Manish K Jha is also associated with SOCIAL, Orissa as a Consultant; and with LAKSHYA, Jaipur as an Adviser. Manish K Jha is also in the Board of USHA a Society for Empowerment.

Being deeply engaged with issues related to Education, Gender, Development, Livelihood, Migration, Human Rights and Advocacy, Manish K Jha has explored, and continue to articulate, connections between different issues, and to promote synergies between different developmental perspectives.

Over the years, he has been conducting participatory, experiential, capacity building workshops for women and men, focused on gender, sustainable development and human rights. These workshops have been held at the local and national levels.

Networking and partnership building with Govt department, INGO, Civil society groups for broad based program support and effectiveness is his biggest asset. Promotion of appropriate Livelihood, learning and health security through empowering technical skills to vulnerable grass root population through skill enhancement are some of the sections where Manish K Jha has shown his excellence in the past and currently at Sir Ratan TATA Trust in UK.

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