Author
bhavana@microsave.net
Bhavana is a financial services consultant with over 18 years of experience of which 16 years have been in microfinance, SME lending, and project management. Her core expertise lies in due diligence and assessment of MFIs, SME banks and other FIs; and design and implementation of large-scale financial sector programmes that seek to enhance access to finance for low-income households and the bottom of pyramid markets; and project management. The current focus of her work is in managing large-scale access to finance projects in several countries. Bhavana has managed and evaluated projects financed by the World Bank, IFC, DFID, IFAD, ADB, AfD, and FMO in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and Vietnam. She has also designed a number of financial inclusion programmes funded by international agencies and was a core team member for implementation, monitoring & supervision of microfinance programme of the apex wholesale microfinance lender in India.