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Saba Mebrahtu

Rural Timor Leste (Credit: Dr Kathryn Anne Cornwall)

Women’s empowerment and microfinance: key challenges, lessons and a way forward

November 8, 2017

by Saba Mebrahtu, Sara Niner

Saba Mebrahtu

Dr. Saba Mebrahtu, over the past 25 years, has led the design and implementation of research on nutrition security, gender and social inequity for some 20 countries in Asia and Africa, with a focus on the most marginalized and vulnerable people. She helped build capacities of communities, governments, civil society, academic and research institutes, and development agencies on evidence-based multi-sector nutrition policies and programs, with quality and equity. She has 20 years of development work experience with UNICEF and is currently the interim Head of Research and Knowledge Translation at Oxfam Australia.

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