Team - Phase-III

Dr. Anamika is an Ecological Economist; she has a Master’s degree in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics and a Ph.D in Ecological Economics from the University Of Leeds, UK. Dr Anamika has been working as an Associate Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati and at present she is on 2 years leave from IIT Guwahati. Her research is interdisciplinary and she uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences to understand environmental change and livelihood dynamics. Her core research to date has focused on assessing social vulnerability to climate change, its impact on water resources and the related livelihood dynamics in the Eastern Himalayan Region of India. She has published peer-reviewed articles in several leading international journals, as well as book chapters, working papers, newspaper articles and policy reports on environmental issues. She has collaborative projects with the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Leeds, UK which are funded by international organizations like the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She has also conducted studies for national and international organizations like the European Statistical Office (EUROSTAT), The International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN), and Wild life Trust of India (WTI) on issues related to environment and livelihood.

Poulomi holds a PhD on watershed management from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior joining to SaciWATERS she was working as a researcher in water resource and policy division (WRPM) of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She has been working in the field of water supply and sanitation, natural resource management, climate change, agriculture, governance and policy issues for the past seven years. She has proficiency in handling both research and implementation related projects and associated with various national forums and societies.

Dr. Aditya Bastola has a Ph.D in Women’s Studies from University of Pune. His research interests are on issues of gender, water, governance, climate change, health and migration. He has strong field experiences across rural communities in South Asia. Prior to joining SaciWATERs he was working with Women in Environment, Nepal. His proficiencies are in implementing and coordinating regional level studies, gender analysis and development of analytical model. He is also associated with several community-based organizations focused on gender rights.

Safa Fanaian holds a master’s degree in Water Management from UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands and a MSc. in Ecology and Environmental Science from Pondicherry University. In the field of water management,she has worked extensively on issues such as transparency, accountability and participation within the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector, ecosystem based economic assessments of water systems, participatory irrigation management, and watershed monitoring and assessment.

She also has experience in coordinating networks and bringing together organizations in research and consultation on issues such as governance, gender equality, rethinking economics and science, religion and development. Throughout, she has lead multidisciplinary and multicultural teams in research, assisted in developing methodologies, data analysis, and conducted trainings, communications and capacity building.