Amitabh Behar - Global Call to Action against Poverty

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Amitabh Behar - Global Call to Action against Poverty
Amitabh Behar
Executive Director of the Pune-based National Centre for Advocacy Studies and the
National Convener of the Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, Amitabh, is also the co-convener
of the National Social Watch Coalition. Mr. Behar is a political scientist by training.
His research interests span governance and civil society, especially decentralized
rural self-governance and social movements in central India. He has earlier worked
with the Ford Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
He is also the Asia convener of the ‘Global Call to Action Against Poverty’ (GCAP).