Ms. Kanchan Lama, Master in Political Science, having certain special courses on gender analysis and forestry development, organizational change processes, programme development management has been a well-recognized consultant for conducting organizational and programmatic gender assessment, review and evaluations in the South and Central Asia Region. She has a combination of ground level experience based on practical work on promoting women’s human rights in the resourceful sectors and providing technical assistance to the public sector policies on mainstreaming gender and inclusion issues.

She has long work experience of more than 29 years in INGOs, e.g., Action Aid, Lutheran World Federation, bilateral agencies, e.g., GIZ, SNV, CIDA, FINIDA, including serving as consultant for UN agencies; e.g., FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, and UNWomen in various positions. She has been well recognized expert in gender and food security, poverty alleviation, women’s rights to natural resources through involvement in forums such as, global food security and nutrition forum, FAO, small holder farmers rights forum (facilitated by IFAD), women major group participating advocacy forums in various global policy making forums, such as, UNFF, CSD, CBD, UNFCCC, etc. and actively participated in the long debate sessions on SDG processes at the UN ECOSOC and ESCAP forums.

Her work with UNIFEM (2007-2009) in Timor Leste for Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forest (MAFF), with UNICEF-Afghanistan and UNICEF-India for reviewing organizational and programmatic gender impacts and staff capacity building on gender mainstreaming, developing Gender Action Plans for the next programme cycles, with Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MoFSC), Nepal for assessment of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) strategy, training of trainers and advising on ways out for GESI integration in the 20 years Forestry Master Plan (2014-2034), with the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resource management of Nepal for designing the longer term GESI strategy for enhanced gender impacts of water resource management services (ADB), with UNWomen for