Sandeep Nayak

Selected work · 02 · CAT · 2025 – now

Landscape investment planning

One method and one budget standard for eleven seven-year landscape plans, each written by its anchor organisation.

The plans on the Transformation Hub ↗

A seasonal crop calendar drawn in chalk on a floor, marked with coloured cards and stones
Seasonal calendar, chalk and cardsPatratu, Jharkhand · 24 Sep 2025 · Photo: Sandeep Nayak

Context

  • Eleven anchor organisations each write a seven-year plan for agroecological transition in their landscape, usually an administrative block. Funders need to compare and fund them; communities need them to be theirs.
  • Ten plans are published on the CAT Transformation Hub; Pangi's is in preparation.

Sandeep's part

  • Leads the method behind the plans.
  • Set the common budget structure and phase-adjusted costing so plans can be compared and funded across landscapes.
  • Reviews anchor organisations' drafts and decides when they meet the standard.
  • Designed the three-track implementation approach that turns plans into field activity.

What changed

  • Ten of the eleven plans met the standard and are published on the Transformation Hub.
  • On 7 June 2026, the anchor organisations and CAT signed a shared memorandum of understanding to work together on landscape-based agroecological transformation.
NextOutcomes framework and MEL →

10 · Contact

Working on a landscape, a fund or a food system?

hello@sandeepnayak.dev
© 2026 Sandeep Nayak · Bhubaneswar, Odisha