Dr Sabita Thapa

Dr. Sabita Thapa is the Climate Change and Natural Resources Adviser at Nepal-based DFID. Sabita is a specialist in community-based natural resource management in the Asia-Pacific Region. Currently her interest and work focus on climate change adaptation, conservation, development planning and gender mainstreaming. Sabita was previously a Research Fellow at the SEI Asia Centre until 2011. She was involved in the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Platform Project and Sustainable Mekong Research Network (Sumernet) Programme. She brings with her more than 10 years work experience in community based natural resource management in teh Asia-Pacific Region. Prior to joining SEI, Sabita worked with the UNDP Solomon Islands, World Wildlife Fund (WWF Nepal), UNDP Kathmandu SURF and Kathmandu University. She has primarily worked in community forestry, protected areas management and integrated water management. She specializes in programme development, planning, monitoring and outcome evaluation. 

Sabita holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds (UK), a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from Pune University (India) and a BSc in Microbiology from Tribhuvan University (Nepal).