Rupsha R Banerjee, PhD Science Technology and Cognition, with over 10 years’ experience working in Asia and Africa, has skills in evidence-based research to stimulate innovation for development, recognize institutional needs and designs for emerging markets and assess their influence in policy, agricultural transformation and decision making in households and livelihoods. She works on evaluating delivery and business models for scaling technology including gender dimensions for innovation. She has assessed institutional and community needs for drought risk financing solution assessments in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Somalia. She currently leads an agenda for scaling-out drought index-insurance for livestock and other drought risk financing approaches, including use of digital information for service delivery in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa.
My Projects
My Publications
Scaling Livestock Insurance under rapidly evolving social, economic and environmental context in the drylands: Perspectives from Kenya and Ethiopia
Bundled solutions for climate adaptation: A multi-method participatory approach to address socially differentiated needs and preferences for complementing livestock insurance with other services among pastoral communities in northern Kenya
Breaking down silos: Towards effective integration of resilience and humanitarian aid in the Horn of Africa
Disseminating KAZNET crowdsourced dryland information: A report of the baseline survey in northern Kenya
