Dr. Carmeliza Rosario is a post-doctoral researcher at the Christian Michelsen Institute, Norway, and a Social and Development Anthropologist. Her research spans gender, poverty, and vulnerability to social development. For the past 20 years, she has carried out longitudinal studies focusing on poverty, including on feminization of poverty, with particular focus on the female manifestation of poverty and coping mechanisms. Among her contributions to social policies are a co-authored report (2007) on urban poverty, entitled “Xiculungo” Social Relations of Urban Poverty in Maputo, Mozambique. In Angola, Rosario has disseminated methodologies for gender-sensitive research on urban poverty, based on her previous experience in Mozambique. In 2018, she also helped develop the Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Implementation Plans for the Okavango and Zambezi River Basins, which address existing inequities at the institutional, as well as social and community levels. [email protected]
