Dhananjay Kakade, Coordinator
dhananjay.kakade@sathicehat.org
Dhananjay Kakade has 18 years of professional experience at the global and the national level in the development sector. He has worked as a trainer, researcher, campaigner, organiser, manager and grant-maker, focusing on social accountability, governance, and human rights.
Dhananjay has worked with civil society organisations and funding agencies to safeguard human rights and promote people’s participation in health decision-making. From 2004 to 2012, Dhananjay worked with SATHI- CEHAT- Pune as a Senior Program Officer and Associate Coordinator, and worked with Oxfam India as a Health Coordinator from 2013 to 2014. He has worked in the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations, New York, from 2015 to 2018. Before joining Open Society Foundations, he served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Advocacy Studies in India from 2014 to 2015. In his last assignment, he has worked with the Asia Pacific Regional Office (South Asia) of Open Society Foundations and was based in London.
