Bhawna Ahuja

Manager - Climate Resilience Practice

Bio

Bhawna is a Manager with the Climate Resilience Practice Program at the World Resources Institute India. She is an economist with research experience in conducting vulnerability and risk assessments, strategies for building climate resilience, and mainstreaming climate adaptation into development policies.

In her current position, she is engaged in the development of tools and frameworks for the assessment of climate impacts and vulnerabilities faced by Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India, promotes adoption of localized resilience strategies and works towards the alignment of climate adaptation efforts with policy priorities through strategic research, stakeholder engagement, and capacity building initiatives.

Prior to WRI, Bhawna worked with Development Monitoring & Evaluation Office of NITI Aayog, Delhi. There she contributed to design and implementation of evaluation for flagship schemes of Government of India. Bhawna has also worked as a Researcher with ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP), New Delhi under the comprehensive project of NICRA. Her research at ICAR-NIAP focused on building resilience of Indian agriculture to climate change and emphasized the importance of developing region-specific adaptation strategies for climate-smart agriculture and bridging the gap between local needs and national policies to build long-term climate resilience.

Bhawna holds a master’s in economics from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, and a bachelor’s in economics (with honors) from University of Delhi.

She currently resides in Mumbai with her husband and enjoys cooking, painting, and nature walks.

Blogs

Breaking Barriers for Women-led Green Enterprises in India
by Bhawna Ahuja, Ananya Chakraborty, Harpreet Bhullar e Anjana Rajagopalan - November 20, 2024
In August 2024, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India appreciated the efforts made by econsciousTM – a waste recycling start-up based out of New Delhi – in his ‘Mann ki Baat’ address. Co-founded by Sonal Shukla during the Covid-19 pandemic, econscious turns plastic waste into furniture and is a prime example of a green enterprise that produces eco-friendly products. Less known are the efforts of Mamta Devi and her venture, Didi ke Papad. Together with her group of 11 JEEViKA didis (Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society self-help group members), they use a solar-powered machine to make papad – a traditional Indian snack – and sell them in the largely rural Begusarai district of Bihar.
Indian MSMEs Need to Embrace Climate Adaptation for Survival
by Bhawna Ahuja, Ananya Chakraborty, Anjana Rajagopalan e Vivek Venkataramani - July 01, 2024
Industries around the world are increasingly undertaking climate change mitigation by reducing the carbon footprint of their operations and supply chains. However, many climate change impacts are inevitable and add to the vulnerability of industries, especially Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). MSMEs contribute

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Breaking Barriers for Women-led Green Enterprises in India

Indian MSMEs Need to Embrace Climate Adaptation for Survival

Building an Ecosystem for Gender-Responsive and Climate-Resilient MSMEs in India

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