Sumina Karki

Sumina Karki is the Director of the Subnational Governance Program for The Asia Foundation in Nepal. She provides strategic leadership and guidance to the program and is responsible for overall program management. Since joining TAF in 2014, her portfolio has encompassed strategic peacebuilding and dialogue, women’s political leadership, disability and social inclusion, governance and policy reform, media, and cross-office, cross-program leadership development. She is a core member of the Senior Leadership Team and the office’s Impact Pillar.

Since joining TAF, she has effectively designed, implemented, and managed multiple programs and has led research on context analysis and political economy. In 2022, she led a team that won the TAF Presidential Award. She has led the drive to strengthen the flagship subnational governance program and the Nepal office’s organizational governance. For the governance portfolio, she has provided strategic guidance to design robust systems and processes that help integrate and design projects targeted to strengthen government-citizen engagement, which was recognized by an independent evaluator as having outstanding design. Sumina leads innovative programs that integrate political economy analysis and problem and issue-based approaches. She is a certified trainer in dialogue and peacebuilding and has conducted several interactive, reflective workshops and training sessions on these topics. She has played a key role in mentoring local partner organizations and accompanying them to facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue among different levels of government.