Aapta Garg Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Build capacity of master’s candidates to understand gender concepts and integrate gender, intersectionality and inclusive development into program design and tools
• Provide technical guidance to students on best practices for conducting and integrating GESI analyses into programming and activities
• Develop course curriculum to provide scope and depth of tools dedicated to understanding, designing, evaluating and advancing gender in U.S. government agencies
• Lead weekly classes on gender tools and processes as part of the core requirement for Georgetown’s Women, Peace, and Security Certificate program

• Designed and developed integration tools to support gender mainstreaming and integration within USAID
• Provided technical support and management to USAID Missions, Bureaus, and Operating Units including capacity building integrating gender and social inclusion into projects
• Provided strategic insight and expertise to USAID to strengthen policies, guidance, and mechanisms for the advancement of gender integration and inclusive development throughout the project cycle
• Designed and coordinated online capacity building sessions for USAID staff
• Supported Banyan Global’s work to coordinate to the USAID Women’s Economic Empowerment Community of Practice
• Managed staff and a team consultants including conducting annual performance evaluations and supervisory support.

• Advocated with Members of Congress and their staff, key policymakers in USAID, the Dept. of State, MCC, and DFC on global gender priorities
• Led U.S. civil society efforts to influence and impact key USG policies including the U.S. Global Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally, the U.S. Global Women’s Economic Security Strategy.
• Led the U.S. Government Relations team on all matters related to gender equality and justice in U.S. Foreign Assistance and humanitarian support
• Led coalitions on gender-based violence, women’s economic empowerment, and gender equality to coordinate understanding on best practices and coordinate influence on U.S. government around gender equality

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Oversee and supervise a remote team in Latin America to conduct quantitative and qualitative research and evaluate interventions to address gender-based violence and masculinities
• Manage large and small multi-year grants from both private and government donors including grants for the Centers of Disease Control, the Swedish International Development Agency, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Global lead for the MenCare Campaign, an international campaign on engaging men as caregivers to redistribute unpaid care work and distribution of labor within the household

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed, implemented, and evaluated training workshops on the use of gender-transformative methodologies and approaches
• Wrote and publish peer-reviewed journal articles on evidenced-based programming related to engaging youth in gender equality
• Lead technical assistance on projects in Latin America in the area of gender equality, violence prevention and promoting men’s participation in women’s economic empowerment and redistributing unpaid care work

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Authored curricula to address violence prevention and women’s economic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health rights, and youth
• Developed, managed, and lead a consortium to conduct a randomized control trial to evaluate programming to engage you men in sexual and reproductive health
• Facilitated and lead trainings with local organizations in the area of gender equality, violence prevention and promoting men’s participation in women’s economic empowerment and redistributing unpaid care work

Washington D.C.

• Developed curriculum, recruit participants, facilitate trainings, and coordinate the strategic development global training programs for service providers for victims of violence and for members of the criminal justice.
• Managed key programs, create and update budget forecasts, and tracked program spending
• Developed and drafted successfully funded proposals that include content for development, budgets, monitoring and evaluation plan and communications strategy

Brasilia, Brazil

• Conducted an impact evaluation of cash transfer program in Yemen with a focus on maternal health, childhood vulnerability and household productivity
• Drafted descriptive analysis of Social Welfare Fund in Yemen for internal report
• Developed indicators for Propensity Score Matching to test the effects of public benefits on poverty reduction in Yemen
• Constructed indicators and data to implement Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivations Analysis (MODA) for UNICEF

Washington, DC

• Developed an online community forum on gender equality, women’s empowerment and economic opportunities
• Developed themes and organized workshops for conference on gender equality and labor rights in Brazil
• Researched trends in labor demographics and in the informal economy and accumulated sources for strategic research on labor and human rights

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Drafted advocacy materials on U.S. Foreign Assistance, gender based violence and economic opportunities
• Researched and analyzed the level of gender integration within USAID’s Haiti projects and partners
• Updated statistics database regarding global prevalence of violence against women and girls around
• Responsible for managing membership database and regularly updating website content
• Organized International Women’s Day Breakfast to launch campaign on quality education for girls

• Researched and documented U.S. economic and military assistance to Colombia and Afghanistan, including insurgency background, patterns and strength of case studies’ military
• Synthesized and summarized data to create tables to track information trends and variances
• Reviewed primary sources to examine attempts by the Colombian government to curb corruption and collusion

Washington, D.C

New York, United States

• Managed a caseload of 30-40 cases across three practice areas including housing and public benefits law
• Developed and conducted 2-3 trainings per month for low-income tenants on housing rights and public benefits in both English and Spanish
• Organized tenants and local elected officials to create coalitions that built the foundation for successful new legislation and protections
• Provided technical assistance on the creation of working groups and tenants associations
• Represented tenants in administrative agency hearings to obtain and preserve benefits

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Development

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science