Sanjay

Madnani

Design Consultant

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Sanjay Madnani is a Communication Strategist and Designer by profession, an Animation Film Designer, an illustrator, a cartoonist, a satirist, and a storyteller by passion.

From a cartoonist in Hindi newspapers, to a design student, to a commercial sector professional, to an educator, to a Development Communication professional, his journey has had dramatic turns. None, however, felt alien to him.

Being a development sector insider for twenty odd years, Sanjay weighs heavily on the fact that development and governance still has a enormous void to be filled by design, design thinking and design process. Focused on Communication for Development (C4D), Social and Behavioral Change Communication (SBCC), Indigenous media and new media, he has multiple crosscutting projects across the globe to his credit.

Sanjay resides in Nepal, calls India his home, then again, he travels around a lot for work.

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Training Mechanisms and Delivery Tools Palm Replantation

Abler Nordic is the new name of Nordic Microfinance Initiative, originally established in Oslo in 2008 as a public-private partnership. The organization invests in companies across Africa and Asia that support low-income households by providing essential financial services.

Over the past 15 years, as the financial inclusion landscape has evolved, Abler Nordic has adapted alongside it. What began as a focus on traditional microfinance has expanded into a more comprehensive approach—one that integrates low-income households into the financial system through a diverse range of services aimed at enhancing financial well-being and building long-term resilience.

In Indonesia, it became evident that two key challenges needed to be addressed: first, training farmers in best agricultural practices without demonstrating the financial benefits of sustainable farming yielded limited impact; and second, promoting improved farming methods without providing financial support further constrained the effectiveness of such initiatives.

To address these challenges, Abler Nordic invited Sanjay to consolidate knowledge on existing best practices in farm management and explore how financial institutions and cooperatives could provide necessary support. As a result, an updated training module on best practices for oil palm cultivation was developed, incorporating advanced techniques for both farm management and replanting strategies.

 

ABLER NORDIC

Jakarta, Indonesia

2023