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Anasuya Sengupta

Senior Associate

Anasuya’s expertise lies in gender equality and social inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment. She has 15 years of experience in research and advisory experience in East Africa, the MENA and the Asia-Pacific. Despite her fun job, she dreams about writing storybooks.

Anasuya Sengupta's Work

Situation Analysis of Children and Adolescents in Egypt 2021: Summary report

In 2021, together with UNICEF Egypt, we carried out a situation analysis (SitAn) of children, adolescents, and young people in Egypt. The SitAn, using rights-based and gender-focused approaches, is expected...

Conducting a situation analysis of children and adolescents for the State of Palestine

Development Pathways is supporting UNICEF by conducting a situation analysis of children and adolescents in the State of Palestine.

Gender analysis to inform Indonesia’s COVID-19 response

In collaboration with UNICEF Indonesia, we are conducting a comprehensive mixed-method gender study. The study will identify bottlenecks and barriers that reproduce gender inequalities.

Key takeaways: Are governments investing in caring and just economies?

This 8-page advocacy brief summarises an assessment of COVID-19 fiscal stimulus response and policy measures in nine countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Challenging misassumptions behind policymaking: “Women’s participation in social safety net programmes increases their agency and influence”

Anasuya Sengupta, Senior Social Policy Specialist and Holly Seglah, Social Policy Officer at Development Pathways, further debunk the notion that women’s participation in social safety net programmes increases their agency and influence.

Are governments investing in caring and just economies?

This report for UN Women is based on an assessment of COVID-19 fiscal stimulus response and policy measures in nine countries in Asia and the Pacific (Cambodia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam).

South Sudan, Gender Situational Analysis to inform safety nets and resilience programming

In partnership with Forcier Consulting, Development Pathways has recently supported the World Food Programme (WFP) South Sudan Country Office in their first major gender research project, leading to lessons learned and recommendations for gender-responsive programming strategy.

The Situational Analysis aims to identify issues to be tackled to improve child and adolescent wellbeing

Uncovering adolescent challenges to address: A Situational Analysis of Children in Mongolia

Adolescence is a crucial developmental period in the life of a person, which marks the transition from childhood towards adulthood. Investing in adolescents is therefore vital to creating a healthy...

Bringing the voice of older persons centre-stage: situational analysis of older persons in Uganda

The world’s population is ageing, and Uganda is no exception. A lack of infrastructure, however, has meant that many of the country’s older citizens have been unable to grow older...

Disability and homelessness in Addis Ababa

Reaching those in Addis Ababa who development must not leave behind

Ethiopia has been working to reduce poverty and foster social development, including through the Productive Safety Net Programme in rural areas. The Urban Productive Safety Net – one of the...

New dates announced for Development Pathways’ Online Course on Inclusive Social Protection

Due to popular demand, Development Pathways is releasing new dates for the Online Course on Inclusive Social Protection: Making the Case which will take place from 3 May to 9 July 2021 with only 20 spaces available. 

The situation of children and young people in the Lebanese Crisis

This report on the progress and inequities in the realisation of rights of children and young people in Lebanon presents a gender-sensitive and equity-focused evidence base on the predicament of...

Pinpointing refugees’ vulnerability in Uganda and recommending food assistance improvements

Uganda has a long history of hosting refugees from neighbouring countries. Our assignment for WFP involved research to improve the evidence on refugee vulnerability.

Improving food, nutrition and income security in Karamoja

Karamoja, a northeastern region in Uganda, has been perceived as ‘lagging behind’ and has been treated by external parties, both the Government and development partners, as an exception to the...

The myth of a resilient Lebanon: isn’t it time to end the global paradigm of gender inequality?

Our Senior Social Policy Specialist, Anasuya Sengupta, takes a critical look at the Lebanese crisis not as an exception but a reflection of the unequal world we live in.

Harnessing their Potential – The State of Disability in Uganda: Summary Report

This summary report provides an overview of the key findings of the final Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development report. It examines the vulnerabilities and risks that persons with disabilities, and their caregivers, face across their lifecycle and includes an overview of the additional costs of living with a disability in Uganda, as captured by both quantitive and qualitative data.

Situational Analysis of Persons with Disabilities in Uganda

This report provides an overview of the vulnerabilities and risks that persons with disabilities, and their caregivers, face across their lifecycle in Uganda.

The State of Older Persons in Uganda – Situational analysis report

The report, as part of the Expanding Social Protection (ESP) programme, highlights old-age poverty and the transformational potential of the Senior Citizens’ Grant.

Women's Day, we question so-called 'gender-mainstreaming'?

All work and no pay: The invisibilisation of women’s labour in public works programmes

Anasuya Sengupta On International Women’s Day, I want to bring attention to a silent scandal on the use of women’s labour within public works programmes, which are increasingly referred to as productive safety net programmes in many low-income countries. These are, as many of you know, good old-fashioned workfare schemes...

The curious case of women leaving the labour market in India

Anasuya Sengupta Recently, in the midst of participating in a launch event for an ODI/HelpAge International study on older women’s work, I thought back on the lives of the women in my family, from India. In the early 1940s – really, not that long ago – my grandmother was married off...

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