Ms. Nalini Singh
Executive Director, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (MGoS)
Nalini Singh, from Fiji, is a feminist and a social development specialist with over 17 years’ experience in design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of women’s rights and development programmes in Asia Pacific. Her particular interests are in the issues of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), decent work and organisational capacity strengthening.
Nalini is presently the Executive Director of the Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM- www.org.fj). Prior to joining FWRM over two years ago, Nalini worked as the Programme Manager- Advocacy and Capacity Building for the Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW- www.arrow.org.my) based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 7 years. And before this she was a Programme Officer at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD- www.apwld.org) based in Chaing Mai, Thailand for 5 years. Nalini is a graduate of the University of the South Pacific with a Bachelor of Arts.
In other roles, Nalini is also a Steering Committee member and current Chair of the Fiji Women’s Fund (www.fijiwomensfund.org); the National Gender Adviser, Asian Development Bank Technical Assistance Project 9348-REG: Strengthening Women’s Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risk in Fiji; Regional Council member of Asia Pacific Forum for Women, Law and Development; Board member of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (www.iwraw-ap.org) ; and the International Advisor- Women’s Rights to LOOM Nepal (a Nepali young women’s NGO).
With her work on women’s rights, Nalini has been involved in monitoring the MDGs and advocating for the advancement of gender equality through the various goals. As the focus shifted to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Nalini followed closely the processes through the over year –long Open Working Group processes. She participated in online meetings, selection processes for speakers for the formal dialogues and attended many meetings in Asia Pacific and internationally advocating for the inclusion of meaningful targets and indicators; meaningful engagement of governments and greater focus on accountability to the people. Nalini also has participated in the High Level Political Forum and in the 2017 session she was invited to be a discussant at the High Level Panel on Gender Equality. Back at home in Fiji, Nalini is monitoring how her government is delivering on the SDGs with a particular focus on how the national development agenda is delivering for women and young women and leaving no one behind.