Sohini Paul is a Senior Program Officer at the Population Council in New Delhi. Her primary research interests include gender, health, food security and political economy. As a member of the Evidence Consortium on Women’s Groups, she is working on costing and cost- effectiveness analyses of women’s groups with a special focus on the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India. She also co-leads another project to generate evidence on the implementation of school-based interventions to improve labour force participation, and ultimately economic empowerment, amongst young girls in Bihar. Prior to joining Population Council, Sohini worked as a fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), one of the oldest think tanks in India, where she has led evaluations of different government welfare schemes including food security programs.