Bijal Brahmbhatt

Biography

Ms. Bijal Brahmbhatt is the Director of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT). A civil engineer by training, she is an expert in habitat improvement, community development, housing finance and urban climate change resilience. She oversees the MHT’s operations at the national level.
She represents MHT on several Government committees, under her leadership MHT has won awards including the “Global Resilience Partnership” in 2015, United Awards A2R award 2018, MHT declared 'WINNER' of Innovation Challenge hosted by Urban Labs Innovation Challenge, announced by the University of Chicago Urban Lab and Delhi Government. (October 2016). She is a fellow of Womanity Foundation and Social Innovation Fellowship Rockefeller.
Bijal’s Publications Include :
1. Securing Services And Tenure To Support Urban Work: The Approach of Mahila Housing Trust, India.
2. Upgrading Women In The Construction Industry, with Renana Jhabvala, 2000.
3. Good Governance Through Partnership: Ahmedabad- Parivartan Programme, Shelter HUDCO, Vol. IV, No. 2, December, 2001.
4. Improving Urban Slums, Improving Health, Health Exchange, Summer, 2009
5. Mobilising Women for Change – Case study of Sanjaynagar, Ahmedabad, with Pooja Shah, Working Paper 7, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, April, 2010.
6. Ahmedabad – More but Different Government For Slum Free And Livable Cities, with Patricia Clarke Annez, Alain Bertaud, Marie-Agnes Bertaud, Chirayu Bhatt, Bimal Patel & Vidyadhar Phatak, Policy Research Working Paper 6267, World Bank, November, 2012
7. What Getting Land Title Really Means: An ‘Anti-Commons’ in Ahmedabad, India? With Patricia Clarke Annez & Bimal Patel, Working Paper 9, World Bank, May, 2014
8. Emulating Mortgages For The Benefit Of The Poor: Financial Innovations by Mahila Housing SEWA Trust, with Matthais Nohn, WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Organizing and Globalising, November, 2014