Akash Mandade is a Project Officer at the center for policy design. He is an economics graduate from Fergusson College pune and holds Master of Arts in Development from Azim Premji University, Passionate about the community governance over the common natural resources and it’s significance for the long term sustainanace .He has worked with the Agro pastoralist communities in Rural Rajasthan to restore the land and water commons.Currently,he looks after the documentation and reporting work for the ongoing Savannah grassland Restoration projects in the Maharashtra.