Monalicha Sarma Climate Resilience and Policy Assessment Specialist

Monalicha Sarma Climate Resilience and Policy Assessment Specialist

Monalicha Sarma is a climate resilience and policy assessment specialist with over five years of experience spanning climate policy, sustainability, research, project delivery and environmental governance. Her work focuses on drought resilience, comparative policy analysis, indicator and assessment frameworks, climate policy and just transition.

Her research on global drought preparedness and resilience developed into a first-author peer-reviewed publication in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. The research draws on comparative analysis of drought and water-management policies across 16 countries and proposes a SMART-aligned framework of 12 targets, 45 sub-targets and 129 indicators for assessing and strengthening drought resilience. Her work has been recognised and featured by UNEP, UNDRR, UNCCD and the Global Water Partnership.

Monalicha has also worked with the UN Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), contributing to work related to NDCs, long-term strategies, the Mitigation Work Programme, Just Transition Work Programme and the Global Stocktake. She holds an M.Sc. in Sustainable Resource Management from the Technical University of Munich and has a background in civil engineering.