Diya Dutta

Brief Biography:

Diya holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Diya has 19 years of research experience and 15 years of professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, policy & advocacy, knowledge management, programme management, research management and networking including working with the United Nations (World Bank, UN Women and UNDP).Diya is currently Independent Consultant—Social Development Research and Evaluation. She attended Oxford University on a Commonwealth scholarship for her MPhil degree in Development Studies and specialized in gender, political economy of South Asia, and ageing. She has worked in programme, research and policy advocacy roles with various national and international organizations. She has domain expertise in gender: SRHR, gender transformative care policies and social protection, women’s political empowerment, gender-based violence, chronic poverty, inequality, unpaid care work, labour and employment, decentralized governance, social transformations, ageing, demography, trade & investment, regional cooperation, ESG issues and accountability and transparency issues of multilateral banks. Diya has worked extensively in South Asia, and India especially. She also has experience of MENA and West Africa region. In addition Diya also undertakes MEL work and qualitative evaluations.

Diya was Co-editor and Project Manager of the prestigious Gender and Development journal issue on Feminist Protests and Politics. She has technical competency in Policy Advocacy; Research, Knowledge Management; Project Management; Monitoring and Evaluation; Partnership Building & Training; Coordination; Communications for Development; Field-based studies and surveys; Data collection and analysis; Editing; Report writing.

Areas of Expertise:

She work in research and MEL and specialize in women's rights issues and feminist MEAL processes.

Contact Info:

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/diyadutta
Email: diyadutta@gmail.com