Mona Sherpa joined CARE Nepal in August 2018 and is responsible for providing strategic, management and technical support to all the program teams of CARE Nepal. She brings with her close to 19 years of professional experience in diverse capacities across various countries in South Asia as well as countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland. She has largely contributed in the field of Women’s Rights, Governance, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management and in the overall management of development interventions ensuring the feminist and human rights angle in all of her work. She also possesses expertise in tactfully working with various Government agencies and donors.

Shivani Dixit Adhikari joined CARE Nepal in September 2015. At CARE Nepal Shivani leads and manages departments like finance, procurement, logistics and warehouse, IT, administration and safety and security. She has more than 15 years of experience in the development and private sector and has handled multi-currency, multi-donor projects successfully. In the past she has worked with several big organizations like International Rescue Committee (IRC), Action Aid International and Population Services International (PSI).

Sauraj Shrestha is working in CARE Nepal since May 2018. Sauraj leads the Grants and Sub grant department at CARE Nepal and supports the Finance Department at both strategic and management level. He has more than 12 years of  working experience in field of accounting, auditing, compliance  and financial management including eight years of working experience of Financial Management in development sector. Before CARE Nepal, he worked in iDE Nepal for more than five years.

Bindu Pokhrel Gautam joined CARE Nepal in September 2016 and currently is responsible to spearhead strategic leadership and technical guidance on gender equality and social inclusion and governance across all CARE program components. She leads in design and implementation of CARE’s core program approaches, manages Program Approaches and Resources Team. She brings more than two decades of experience working in different organizations and in different capacity such as Plan International, ActionAid, Save the Children and some assignments with multilateral organizations. Her greater amount of work touches upon designing, implementation, research and evaluation of women rights, child rights, gender equality and social inclusion programs, strategies, advocacy and policy inputs from human right principles.

Rachel joined CARE Nepal in July 2020. She brings 17 years of global development and emergency response experience to the role, along with a passion to empower marginalized woman and girls. An entrepreneurial leader, Rachel has previously managed a $60 million refugee response, led an $80 million consortium of seven NGOs and a dozen donors, and served as global safeguarding director for a large INGO. Rachel holds an MBA from the Wharton School, and a Bachelor’s of Science from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. She is a native speaker of Japanese, and has lived and worked in Japan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Somalia, Kenya, southern Africa, and now Nepal.