Narendranath Damodaran has been a part of PRADAN, a premier voluntary organisation in India, for the last 34 years. As a field professional in PRADAN in Jharkhand and Rajasthan, Narendranath organised rural women in SHGs and implemented livelihood programmes. As the Programme Director in the Resource and Research Centre in PRADAN, he was involved in a number of national and international research and documentation efforts to build knowledge from practice and make it available in the public domain.