Manish Dubey is Chief – Practice Programme at IIHS. Manish provides strategic direction and guidance to consolidate and grow the programme portfolio and team in line with the overall mission and strategic vision of IIHS.
Manish is a governance and institutional development expert with over 25 years of consulting experience with national and state governments, multilateral and bilateral development partners, industry, international NGOs, and philanthropies. His experience spans the rural and urban water supply and sanitation (WSS), urban development, natural resource management, and rural livelihood sectors across 20 Indian states. Among his clients have been the World Bank, UNICEF, Asian Development Bank, Australian Agency for International Development, Department for International Development (DFID), Global Sanitation Fund and Swedish International Development Agency.
Key areas of Manish’s work include institutional design and strengthening, programme design and strategy, reform management support, strategic stakeholder communication, and sector, portfolio and programme level result management. His professional engagement has been geared towards realising improved services and substantive roles in planning and implementation processes for communities and local governments and enabling sector reform initiatives.
Manish’s engagement with public issues through media commentary has translated to the publishing of over a hundred opinion pieces and articles on politics, society and cricket in digital and print. He has also authored two books of crime fiction and has spoken on literary matters and his personal creative journey on several fora.
2021, Infrastructure and Services, Faculty member, Public policy, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
2023, Infrastructure and Services, Faculty member, Public policy, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
2023, Law, Governance and Policy, Faculty member, Governance, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
National Jal Jeevan Mission, 2021, Water and sanitation
