Dinesh Reddy

Biography

I am associated with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), India since 1989. I have more than three decades of experience of working with rural communities in their endeavors of local self-governance and restoring and securing rights over Commons. Of the thirty years, I have directly worked with rural communities on natural resource management and governance aspects in Andhra Pradesh for the first eight years. For the last 22 years, I am involved in project management issues at organizational level and has developed good insights into project planning, management systems for implementation and reporting. I am interested on issues of Commons, community rights, restoration of degraded ecosystems, small holder farming systems, socio-ecological systems, new participatory tools to elicit collective action, rural youth as local stewards, community level federations and multi-actor platforms.