Research Fellow
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.
She is currently coordinating the Arsenic Knowledge and Action Network project at SaciWATERs.
Email: safa@saciwaters.org