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Serajud Dahar Khan is an innovative practitioner in the participatory training-learning-facilitation domain. He is a specialist in education, advocacy, rights-based approach and inclusive development paradigm. As a development specialist, he has been learning from and contributing to the development arena for about forty years. He has contributed to UN bodies, and National and International Development Organizations through training, IEC/SBCC materials development, designing innovative development programmes, evaluation and research. At present, he is the Chief Executive of INTERACTION, a training, research and IEC/SBCC materials development institution. Dahar is the innovator and orchestrator of Mind Management Approach-MMA (a new stream in the participatory training-learning process), Active Learning Process (ALP- an interactive approach to train teachers and students of formal institutions), ‘Shonglap’ for the empowerment of adolescents, and ‘Lahanti Akhra’, an approach to the empowerment of Adivashi adolescents and adults. Hundreds of development practitioners and participatory training facilitators, in and abroad, have been nurtured and developed through his exceptional training and co-working with him. He has developed more than 30 pieces of development of literature, out of which 20 have been published. He was an activist in Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir, a leftist cultural front. He is a theatre activist and reviewer, and a littérateur as well. He is a literary composer of poetry and non-fictional stories. His book, `Khanshaheber Khondojibon’, published in 2020, is a partial portrait of his life. He studied Bengali Language and Literature at Rajshahi University. He was born in Pabna, Bangladesh on 9 July 1957. He is the elder son of late Serajun Nessa Khanom and Late Dr. Abdul Kader Khan.