Dr. Manjeshwori Singh

General Secretary

Dr. Manjeshwari Singh is a Senior Research Specialist at Nepal Development Research Institute (NDRI). She completed her Doctoral Degree and Master's Degree in Rural and Regional Studies from Hiroshima University, Japan, and a Master's Degree in Statistics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. She has over 16 years of work experience conducting various socio-economic research on various themes – Livelihoods, DRR, Renewable Energy, Water Supply and Sanitation (WASH), Public Health, Peace Building, Agricultural Value Chain, Flood Risk Assessment, Community Flood Early Warning, Gender-based Violence (GBV), and Food Security using both qualitative and quantitative techniques/methods. Moreover, she has experience working as a statistician on various projects. Her professional career includes; working as a Research Consultant for the HiPeC project supported by Hiroshima University, as a Program Director at NDRI, and doing consulting work with various institutions in Nepal, India, and Japan. Her specific areas of expertise include; Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, Research Methodology-survey designing and planning, Sampling and sample distribution and statistical tools and techniques (qualitative/quantitative), statistical data analysis and conducting socio-economic database research; baseline, mid-line, end-line, perception surveys, impact assessment, and evaluation studies. 

She is currently serving as a GESI and Livelihood Specialist at NDRI. Her current contribution as GESI Expert to the current NDRI project- “Understanding the gender, equality, social inclusion and distributional implications of the economics of climate change, the costs of adaptation, and bankable adaptation projects (ECONOGENESIS)” supported by FCDO-IDRC. As a Statistician in the project- Data Must Speak, supported by UNICEF.