Prachi Acharya, Ph.D.

Urban resilience & recovery preparedness specialist | UNDP Sahel Resilience Project

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • UNDP (4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Urban resilience and recovery preparedness specialist
      Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Technical, strategic and policy advisory on local, regional and continental-level urban resilience initiatives through the Sahel Resilience Project, including: (i) with African Union Commission (AUC), developing the continental Africa Urban Resilience Programme (AURP) (ii) with ECOWAS Commission, adapting the AURP to West Africa (iii) with UN-Habitat, national governments developing the Spatial Development Strategy for the Sahel (iv) with local governments, UN-Habitat, developing local urban resilience frameworks for action in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal

    • CRNA Report Editor
      Oct 2021 - Oct 2021 · 1 mo

  • PHD Candidate at University of Cambridge
    Oct 2015 - Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • UNDP (6 mos)
    • Consultant/Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium/Hazard, Vulnerability, Risk Assessment E-library
      Aug 2015 - Oct 2015 · 3 mos

      Independently analysed and synthesised 300 risk assessment sources for Nepal's Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment e-library including on urban resilience.

    • Consultant for Affordable and Disaster Resilient Social Housing (Odisha)
      May 2015 - Jul 2015 · 3 mos

      Proposed region specific low-carbon and disaster resilient house-types through effective participatory design discussions with communities across five districts in Odisha, India, as part of Government of India’s Governance and Accelerated Livelihoods Support initiative for Green Strategies.

  • Consultant Architect/Refurbishing British High Commission, Colombo at European External Action Service
    Feb 2015 - Sep 2015 · 8 mos

    Led planning and monitoring for new offices for the EU within the British High Commission premises and advised the European External Action Service in Brussels on negotiations for ongoing construction.

  • National Coordinator (Consultant) at Owner-led Development and Reconstruction Collaborative (ODRC)
    Oct 2014 - Aug 2015 · 11 mos

    Coordinated the ‘Enhancing Urban Disaster Resilience’ project in mountainous Uttarakhand, India for enhancing urban risk management capacity and developing participatory urban building bylaws that mainstream climate and disaster risk.