Measurement and Evaluation

Sunayana Walia is a senior specialist at the International Center for Research on Women’s (ICRW) Asia Regional Office. In this capacity, Walia coordinates intervention research projects on adolescent reproductive health and women’s empowerment. She also assists partner institutions to design evaluations and monitor programs.

Walia has extensive experience evaluating life skills programs for adolescent girls and measuring women’s empowerment. She has coordinated several impact evaluations on reproductive and sexual health in India and examined the links between workplace interventions and women’s empowerment. Before joining ICRW in 2001, Walia worked for six years with the Self-Employed Women’s Association in Ahmedabad on a longitudinal research study. She also worked as a research associate with the Indian Institute of Management, where she coordinated an evaluation study on a national residential school program.

Sophie Namy is a gender and development specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In this role, Namy helps international development organizations evaluate programs through a gender lens and conducts empirical research related to violence against women, engaging men and boys and women’s property rights.

Namy brings more than six years of experience in development research, with a particular focus on evaluating community-based interventions, training and capacity building. Prior to joining ICRW, Namy served as an American India Foundation Clinton Fellow with the Kumaon Agriculture & Greenery Advancement Society. Her work focused on designing and conducting research related to HIV, sex work and women’s economic empowerment in rural India. Namy also consulted for USAID and Futures Group International on a qualitative evaluation of a maternal health intervention designed to improve women's knowledge and their access to services at the village level.

Anurag Mishra is a senior technical specialist at the International Center for Research on Women's (ICRW) Asia Regional Office. In this capacity, he prepares data collection instrument, project reports and monitoring tools and helps evaluate data.

Mishra has more than 12 years of experience monitoring and evaluating programs in India and providing technical assistance to partner institutions that want to expand their efforts. Prior to joining ICRW, he worked for eight years as a program officer at Population Council in New Delhi, where he provided technical assistance and evaluation expertise for a variety of government programs. He also provided monitoring and evaluation support as a consultant for the Constella Group. As a doctoral candidate, Mishra coordinated survey work between the International Institute for Population Sciences and the government.

Anjala Kanesathasan is a senior public health specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In this role, Kanesathasan provides technical and management direction for a range of projects related to health, gender, adolescents and women’s empowerment.  

Kanesathasan brings more than 15 years of experience developing, managing and evaluating health and development projects. She has led multiple efforts at ICRW, including assessing options for increasing women’s agricultural engagement in West Africa and evaluating a program to decrease violence among young men in the Balkans. Prior to joining ICRW in 2007, Kanesathasan directed the behavior change communications component of a large reproductive and child health program in Kenya with PATH. Kanesathasan also has directed communications programs for a social marketing project to promote family planning and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in Uganda.  

In addition to her 10 years based in East Africa, Kanesathasan’s field experience includes southern Africa, South and Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.

Anne Marie Golla is senior economist and evaluation specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In this role, Golla leads impact evaluations of projects aimed at economically empowering women and provides technical assistance on economic and evaluation issues.  

Golla has more than 15 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation and in research of women and work, food security, and poverty. Prior to joining ICRW in 2007, Golla conducted research on food security issues in the United States for the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Earlier, she oversaw the design and monitoring of economic and rural development projects for CARE International.

Golla has worked on projects in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, and has extensive experience in Russia, Central Asia and the Transcaucasus region. Golla has held teaching positions at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland at College Park.