Aanchal Kapur has been working in the field of social development and human rights, for the past 28 years. Aanchal’s core expertise lies in training and facilitation, process documentation, communication and designing, programme planning, organisational development and event management. She works on the themes of gender and development, violence against women, labour, health, education, disability, child rights, social justice, peace, environment and livelihood. Aanchal facilitates learning and action among non-profits on diverse issues and strategies with a creative lens, using principles of communication, networking and advocacy for social change.

Aanchal has worked across grassroots India, South Asia and internationally with development workers, activists and community members (especially women); students, NGO management; trade union members; government functionaries; staff of bilateral and UN agencies, etc. Among the organisations she has closely worked with include, PRIA, ActionAid, Oxfam, UN Women, UNFPA, ICRW, Breakthrough, Sama, Jagori, WISCOMP and others. Aanchal founded a non-profit organisation called ‘KRITI: a development praxis and communication team’, in 1999, which offers a creative and critical space for thinking and action on important rights issues.

She has written extensively for magazines, journals and organisations in her career. Among her recent published works are: ‘Female Bodies: Domains of Control and Exclusion Responding to Ground Realities’ in a book titled Fluid Gender, Fluid Love, 2019; ‘Engendering Micro-Finance: A Capacity Building Toolkit for Micro Finance Institutions’, SIDBI-DFID, March 2018; ‘Gendernama: A Curriculum for Sensitization of Boys and Men on Violence against Women’, Oxfam India, 2017; Right to Sanitation: A Gender Perspective, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, 2016; Our Work, Our Identities, Our Lives: Young Women’s Life Choices and Livelihoods in Poor Urban Areas, ActionAid International, 2015; A Rights-Based Approach to Realizing the Economic and Social Rights of Poor and Marginalized Women, A Synthesis of Lessons Learned, ICRW, 2006; From Thought to Action: Building Strategies on Violence against Women, Oxfam/ Kriti team, India, 2004; Women Workers Rights: Issues and Strategies, ILO, Geneva/ India, 1999.

Aanchal has a MSc. in Development Studies (Gender, Social Policy and Planning), from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Masters in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University.