Namrata Ginoya

Program Manager – Energy and Resilience

Bio

Namrata is a Program Manager with the energy access team at WRI India which aims to extend affordable, reliable and clean energy to all. Her responsibilities include strategic partnership building, project coordination, policy research and knowledge management. She worked with WRI’s Climate Resilience Practice (CRP) team for five years. Her most recent research looks at the relationship between climate change, gender and nutritional security. She has published reports, blogs and case studies, and helped develop a tracking tool for adaptation projects for the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change.

Prior to joining WRI, Namrata conducted research and advised on building low-carbon climate resilient water and sanitation infrastructure in India and Bangladesh. She holds a B.Tech in Civil Engineering and M.Tech in Climate Change and Sustainable Development from the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad. At CEPT, her research covered livelihood vulnerability assessments for coastal villages in Gujarat, India, a city-wide assessment of vulnerability to climate change for Ahmedabad, India, and strategies for low-carbon development in the city of Bangkok, Thailand.

Namrata has co-authored these publications: From Planning to Action: Mainstreaming Adaptation into Development; Mainstreaming Adaptation in Action: Examples from two states in India; Mainstreaming Adaptation in Kenya: Lessons from Makueni and Wajir Counties; and Scaling Success: Lessons from Adaptation Pilots in the Rainfed Regions of India.

Namrata is a painter and an avid reader. Her other passions include traveling and household terrace farming.

Blogs

Buried waters: Clean Energy Solutions for Water Access in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
by Namrata Ginoya - September 14, 2020
Every drop of water is precious in western Rajasthan. This sun-baked swathe of arid land is dotted with ‘dhanis’, or small settlements comprising of 50-100 people and a few thousand of their domesticated animals. Remote villages such as Kisangarh and Girduwala, located close to the India-Pakistan border are a part of the Thar desert ecosystem, characterized by sandy plain and dune landscape
Ephemeral Islands: Access to energy in the char regions of Assam
by Namrata Ginoya and Amala Devi - July 29, 2020
It is the monthly immunization day, and Salma Khatun is waiting for the boat to come take her across the Brahmaputra to Ramhari Char. She holds in one hand an ice box, filled with vaccines she will be administering later that day, and on the other, an umbrella, to protect herself from the fierce summer sun. Salma is a nurse at the only health center in Ramhari Char, an unelectrified island
As India Revises State Climate Plans, Who Should Have a Voice?
by Namrata Ginoya, Uttara Narayan and Jesse Worker - July 25, 2019
This blog post originally appeared in WRI Insights.

After the largest election in history, India's government faces important decisions on how to respond to climate change, including preparing for its increasing impacts on the lives and livelihoods of millions of Indians.
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in India
by Ayesha Dinshaw, Namrata Ginoya, Parvathi Preethan and Arivudai Nambi Appadurai - April 04, 2019
Climate change is strongly impacting India. In 2016, southern states faced crippling droughts, which extended to almost half the country in 2017. And last year, Kerala and parts of Karnataka experienced terrible flooding. These trends highlight the need for adaptation to occur more rapidly, and at scale.

One way to achieve this is to integrate adaptation into the everyday functioning
Lessons from Kenya for India's Adaptation Initiatives
by Namrata Ginoya - January 31, 2018
Locals around Aberdare National Park say that the Kenyan Defence Forces hold a gun in one hand to protect the country from external threats and a seedling in another to protect an internal enemy - hazards of deforestation. Green Belt Movement (GBM), since its inception in 1977 by Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Mathai, has worked with locals and
Participatory Scenario Development: A Tool for Effective Planning
by Namrata Ginoya - June 23, 2017
Karnataka is facing a water crisis. The adverse effects of climate variations experienced through fluctuations in temperature and precipitation have a significant bearing on the growth of the state economy. Farmers, in many parts of the state have faced loss of crops due to drought-like conditions owing to scarce rainfall and severe depletion of ground water.

Devendrappa, a farmer from
When it Comes to Adaptation, We Need to Think Bigger
by Ayesha Dinshaw, Arivudai Nambi Appadurai and Namrata Ginoya - August 19, 2015
This post originally appeared on Insights

Climate change threatens virtually every community on Earth. Increasingly frequent and severe droughts, floods and heat waves will impact agriculture, food security, infrastructure, GDP, and lives and livelihoods. The World Bank

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Namrata Ginoya

Buried waters: Clean Energy Solutions for Water Access in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

Ephemeral Islands: Access to energy in the char regions of Assam

As India Revises State Climate Plans, Who Should Have a Voice?

Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in India

Lessons from Kenya for India's Adaptation Initiatives

Participatory Scenario Development: A Tool for Effective Planning

When it Comes to Adaptation, We Need to Think Bigger

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