Liby T Johnson has led large scale, impactful, poverty eradication efforts in his nearly three decades of social development work, with non-profits and governments in India, in diverse sectors as community institutions and local governance, migration, livelihoods, water, and disaster management. Liby set up the National Resource Organisation of Government of Kerala under the National Rural Livelihood Mission of the Government of India. During his time with the United Nations Development Programme, he contributed to setting up capacity building mechanisms to support women entrepreneurs and women producers’ collectives across India. As the chief functionary of Gram Vikas, he is responsible for leading the organisation’s work in its fifth decade aiming to influence the life of nearly five million persons by enabling water and livelihoods security.He contributes regularly to policy discussions at the State and National levels on water, sanitation, livelihoods and disaster resilience.
