About Sushila Thing
Country: Nepal
Pronouns: she/her
Sushila Thing specializes in forestry, gender, social inclusion, climate and disaster resilience. Sushila has a master's degrees in sociology and philosophy (M.Phil.) in sociology from the Tribhuwan University of Nepal.
She works as part of the core team of The Partner's Nepal, which works to conserve the high mountain ecosystems and cultures of Nepal. She has more than 10 years of work experience in different fields including forest management, non-aromatic plant cultivation and community-based natural resource conservation and management. She worked in different international non-governmental organizations as well as national non-governmental organizations. She has experience in research particularly the climate change adaptation strategies of the indigenous community of Nepal, climate change policy analysis through the gender perspective, forest resource management and disaster risk reduction.
As a year-long Humphrey fellow, she will research how to integrate and mainstream gender-equal climate and disaster resilience plans and policies into the national plan and policy of Nepal, and analyze the climatic disaster risk using GIS model. After the fellowship, she will contribute to making Nepal a resilient country.
Available to speak on the following topics:
- Nepal’s achievement both in policy and program of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
- Women empowerment and gender equality in Nepal focusing on the theme of climate change and disaster risk reduction
- Non-timber forest products such as medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) cultivation practices in Nepal
- Strengthening livelihoods resilience of mountain community
- Nepal’s unique culture and diversity
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