Sasmita is the Gender Advisor for the Water and Energy for Food (WE4F), South and Southeast Asia Regional Hub. The program, supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands, Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) aims to scale innovations in the water-energy-food nexus through grant, technical assistance, and investment facilitation. Sasmita is responsible for integration of a gender lens across key aspects of the program. In the past, her work has focused on integration of gender and social equity in policy research and entrepreneurship in the energy access sector.
