Deepa
Joshi
Gender,
Youth
and
Inclusion
Lead
in
the
CGIAR
Research
Program
on
Water,
Land
and
Ecosystems,
International
Water
Management
Institute
(IWMI),
Colombo,
Sri
Lanka
Dr. Deepa Joshi is Gender and Social Inclusion Lead at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). She is a feminist political ecologist by training, and her work analyses shifts in environmental policies and how these restructure contextually complex intersections of gender, poverty, class, ethnicity and identity. She has worked primarily in South Asia as well as in South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Her published findings present ethnographic analyses of how the complexity of inequity is reiterated across institutions in the rules and processes of policy-making; in policies per se and in implementing institutions at scale. Dr. Joshi’s interests lie in translating research outputs into capacity building initiatives for policy impact. She has been leading these activities on several bilateral projects in South and South-East Asia and Africa.