Rai Sengupta

India

MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Trinity College

Funding: Oxford-Hoffmann

Rai Sengupta is an evaluation consultant at UNICEF, where she conducts evaluations of UNICEF’s global programming in three key areas: child health and nutrition, child protection, and climate change and WASH. Prior to this she worked as a consultant in international development based in London: her work included evaluating a gender-based violence programme in Zimbabwe, researching an adolescent health intervention in Ghana, and developing a parenting support strategy in Tanzania.

Rai holds a degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi. She has previously worked at Invest India– India’s premier investment promotion agency – on strategic research for the Ministry of Women and Child Development. She has also worked at the international development consultancy IPE Global. She has conducted pan-country evaluations of 6 national programmes implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development in India - including the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the world’s largest public works programme. Rai has also evaluated a cash transfer programme in Myanmar for UNICEF and analysed the UK Government’s (FCDO) portfolio of development programmes in Zimbabwe. She has led workshops on human rights at schools and colleges in partnership with Amnesty International India, reaching over 7000 students across her country. During college, Rai volunteered with the international non-profit Enactus and helped build sustainable livelihoods for low-income puppeteers and women dairy farmers in India.