Smita is an independent consultant working in development and has over fourteen years of post qualification experience. She has had significant consulting success working with public sector, donor agencies, private foundations and non-governmental organisations. She has contributed to the progress and achievements of programmes and organisations in a variety of sectors including governance, health, human rights, urban development, gender, land, community development and arts and culture.
Smita is currently involved in facilitating the design and operation of a programme for civil society organisations in urban development. She successfully facilitated several workshops from which she developed the programme framework including funding modalities, mainstreaming, logical framework, monitoring & evaluation system and programme structure.  Smita has provided capacity building services to Association of Ethiopians Living with HIV/AIDS which successfully culminated in a training workshop. In addition, she provided recommendations in harmonising activities between programme management, financial management and monitoring & evaluation where applicable.
As a Delta consultant Smita was part of a team performing an evaluation of a Government Training Centre in Southern Sudan. In particular, the review included analysis of students and targeting, curriculum, training approaches, management effectiveness and strategy. She has been part of a large multi disciplinary team providing institutional strengthening services to improve accountability and efficiency of semi- autonomous government agencies and statutory bodies in Guyana. Key tasks included facilitating workshops on best practice and assisting the agencies in the development of their Performance Improvement Plans.