Shilpa Vasavada is a gender and community institutions specialist with around three decades of experience in the livelihoods sector. Her experience spans across the areas of strategy formulation, capacity building, mentoring support, and evaluation studies for gender mainstreaming in natural resource-based livelihood projects. Shilpa has worked with civil society organisations, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), government agencies, and CSR projects across different states of the country. She is a graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.