Sunayana Walia

Sunayana Walia is a senior youth reproductive health 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.