CARE Nepal

Mona Sherpa is a development and feminist activist. Currently she is working as Country Director in CARE Nepal and is responsible for providing strategic, management and technical support to all the programme quality team in CARE Nepal. She is a core member of SANGAT (South Asian Feminist Network) and has been part of women’s movement in Nepal and globally. She brings 20+ years of professional experience in diverse capacities across various countries in South Asia as well as countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Switzerland. She has worked with other organisations like ActionAid, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Room to Read, in a role of management and programme leader contributing in the field of women’s rights, governance, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and in the overall management of development interventions ensuring the feminist and human rights angle in all of her work. She has been part of four major multi-country research efforts on the issue of unpaid care work, safe cities for women and local infrastructure for gender transformation. She also possesses expertise in tactfully working with various government agencies and donors. She has worked with people’s organisations being part of social movement mainly on the issue of women’s rights, freed Kamaiya and land rights. She leads SuPWR research initiative in Nepal.

Anjam Singh is a research consultant with CARE Nepal working on the SuPWR project. Her research interests include issues of gender and development. Anjam has previously worked on research projects related to women’s economic empowerment, unpaid care work, domestic violence, natural resource governance, feminist leadership, to name a few.

Arunima has been working at CARE Nepal since November 2022 as a Communications Officer. She began her journey with SuPWR as a focal person for Communications for the research project in Nepal. Arunima is responsible for looking after the communications and media/Audio Visual outputs for SuPWR. Being a part of SuPWR has given me a deeper insight into the women’s social movements in Nepal and neighbouring countries, and how the struggles of women across the region are similar even in different country contexts.

Rubina has been working at CARE Nepal since January 2022 as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer – Database Management. She began her journey in SuPWR as a qualitative data coder using Nvivo but has since learned so much more - being a part of the research has given  Rubina a deeper understanding of women’s social movements, especially in the context of Nepal. Rubina's role in CARE Nepal mostly involves working with quantitative data but the unique methodology of the SuPWR reflective workshops have shown her the importance of being conscious of the people behind the data that we collect.

Sujeena Shakya works as a Knowledge Management Specialist with CARE Nepal, and is responsible for creating and supporting knowledge management process, systems and products of CARE Nepal programs/projects, providing support to programmatic learning in order to enhance the quality and impact of work. As a core team member of SuPWR, Sujeena will be responsible for GPEA analysis, data collection and analysis.