Anjil is a specialist in disaster risk management and water supply and sanitation. He has more than 10 years of professional engineering experience, including 7 years of work as a lecturer in an engineering college, and more than 8 years of working experience in WASH and disaster risk reduction.
Anjil’s experience is expansive and he has held a variety of positions, including: thematic head for a 4 million GBP per annum WASH portfolio in Nepal, lead writer/concept creator spearheading business development to secure funding worth 3.6 million GBP, CEO for aprivate company, leading two multi-organisation consortiums, lecturing, and being a young thought leader in the water sector. Anjil has also led two national level research projects, published 3 research papers on WASH and is an active member of Oxfam’s global research network.
His experience includes working for humanitarian crisis and response during the Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, different scales of floods and landslides, and post emergency planning and long-term development. He has spent the past 5 years focusing on innovation at the ground level and identifying areas of innovation in system design of water supply, micro-hydro, and linking WASH with markets for sustainability. He also has experience of using different hydraulic and hydrological modelling software like GIS, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, and basic professional knowledge in remote sensing. He has capacity to perform sensitivity analysis for WASH activities, to advise action for sustainability. Anjil also has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts, including major engineering projects, flood mitigation projects, disaster risk management, water resource management, water supply, sanitation and also support for the WASH sector in institutional reforms through innovative business models.
Anjil received his Master’s degree from Tribhuvan University for his thesis on a Monitoring Tool for User Friendliness of Emergency Pit Latrine: A Case Study of Tudikhel Camp after 2015 Gorkha Earthquake. His thesis is a result of his engagement in the camp after the Nepal earthquake as an Oxfam staff member.