Shivnarayan Prajapati
A field-research and rural-development professional with more than twelve years of experience across multi-state surveys, field supervision, state coordination and development-sector assignments.
Shivnarayan brings extensive on-ground experience developed across household research, financial inclusion, public health, disability, skills and rural-development assignments. His work combines practical field understanding with experience of managing teams, coordinating across locations and working with institutions required for successful field implementation.
← Back to Our TeamField experience built across development programmes and multiple geographies.
His professional background combines field research, rural-development exposure, institutional coordination and the management of distributed survey teams.
Practical field experience across research and development-sector assignments.
Shivnarayan’s professional career has been built largely through field and coordination roles with the Academy of Management Studies, alongside assignments involving other development-sector organisations.
His work has covered financial inclusion, financial literacy, public health, disability, skill development and rural development, with responsibilities ranging from field supervision and team leadership to state-level coordination.
This combination of sector exposure and operational experience gives him a practical understanding of how research and development assignments function at community level, particularly where implementation depends on respondent access, local coordination and disciplined field execution.
Field Research
Household and institution-facing fieldwork across varied research environments.
Team Leadership
Supervision and coordination of investigators working across distributed locations.
Development Programmes
Professional exposure across rural development and other social-sector assignments.
Institutional Coordination
Working with government officials and institutions in support of field implementation.
Ground-level understanding supported by large-scale field experience.
Shivnarayan’s strength lies in connecting programme and research requirements with the practical conditions in which fieldwork is actually delivered.
Rural Field Research
Experience supporting research and survey activity involving rural households and communities.
Community-Level Implementation
Practical exposure to assignments requiring local engagement, field access and structured implementation.
Large Field-Team Management
Experience coordinating large field structures, including a team of more than 140 personnel on a major assignment.
Multi-State Fieldwork
Professional field exposure across more than twelve states and varied operating environments.
Government & Institutional Liaison
Experience coordinating with officials and institutions in connection with field access and implementation.
Survey Supervision
Supervision of investigators, field progress and day-to-day execution across structured survey assignments.
Experience across national and state-level research assignments.
Selected assignments below illustrate the scale and range of Shivnarayan’s earlier professional field experience.
State-wide Door-to-Door Survey for Persons with Disabilities
A large-scale household exercise undertaken across Chhattisgarh for identification and collection of information relating to Persons with Disabilities.
- Led a field team of more than 140 personnel.
- Coordinated field deployment and daily execution.
- Supported implementation within a large state-wide survey structure.
NABARD All-India Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS 2.0)
State-level coordination responsibility within a major financial-inclusion survey across two hill-state environments.
- Coordinated field operations across Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
- Supported field teams operating across multiple districts.
- Maintained coordination between field structures and project management.
Centre for Financial Literacy Project
A financial-literacy focused field assignment involving household awareness monitoring and field-level supervision.
- Supervised household-level fieldwork.
- Coordinated team activity and survey progress.
Bihar Skill Development Mission
Skill-development research involving survey activity relating to youth aspirations, skills and employment.
- Supervised field-level execution.
- Coordinated investigator activity and reporting requirements.
National Family Health Survey (NFHS)
Field-supervision experience within a structured national household-survey environment.
- Supervised field teams and day-to-day survey planning.
- Supported data-quality checks and field-progress reporting.
Experience across rural and social-development research environments.
Rural Development & Field Research Specialist
At MFRS, Shivnarayan contributes specialist field and rural-development experience to assignments where community-level implementation, field research and practical operating knowledge are important.
Specialist support grounded in field experience.
His role supports project teams in understanding field conditions, organising practical implementation approaches and connecting research requirements with the realities encountered across rural and community-based assignments.
- Rural field inputs. Contributing practical field perspectives to rural and community-based assignments.
- Field implementation support. Supporting workable approaches to deployment, supervision and field execution.
- Community-level research. Applying experience of household and respondent-facing research environments.
- Operational guidance. Supporting project teams where field scale, geography or access requires experienced operational input.
- Institutional coordination. Contributing experience of working with government and institutional stakeholders during field implementation.
Education
Field experience that strengthens research in real operating environments.
Shivnarayan brings more than twelve years of practical field experience across research, development programmes and multi-state operations. At MFRS, that experience supports assignments requiring grounded field understanding, community-level implementation and disciplined research execution.