Charla Britt

Charla Britt is DevTech's Senior Gender Advisor, and has worked on targeted assignments for DevTech since 2005. Dr. Britt was trained as a social development specialist, with concentrations in rural development and environmental sociology. She has 20 years of experience working with USAID community-based groups, national and international NGOs, networks, and federations on natural resources management, gender equality and social inclusion, decentralization and governance, food security and nutrition, climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, education and vocational training, and health. She was an Investing in Women in Development (IWID) Fellow (2002–2004) for USAID/Nepal, and a visiting scholar at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University (1998–2000) where she worked with Nobel Laureate in Economics, Dr. Elinor Ostrom. Her expertise encompasses gender analysis and budgeting, social inclusion (gender, caste, and ethnicity) in post-conflict and transitional situations, land and common property/pool resources (CPR) tenure regimes, participatory research methods and tools, institutional analysis and policy formulation, and social mobilization and collective action. She holds a PhD and MS from Cornell University, in Development Sociology, and a BA from University of California, Berkeley, in Political Economy. She is fluent in Nepali, and speaks functional Hindi and Spanish.