Bijita Dev Sharma

Bijita has over 15 years of experience in development, working on Child Rights, Education, Gender, and WASH. She has led evaluation studies for various organizations and most recently served as MEL (Monitoring Evaluation & Learning) Specialist for RiseUp! Leadership Initiative Asia-Pacific at World YWCA, managing MEL across 8 countries with a gender-transformative approach. Bijita holds a Masters and M.Phil. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics and is a Board member of CoE-SA and a core member of GENSA. Outside of work, she enjoys baking, Indian folk art, and watercolor painting.