Clara Delavallade is a Senior Economist at the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab. She has worked on gender and human capital formation over the past 15 years, both with implementing NGOs and research institutions. She is currently based in Dakar (Senegal) and leads the Gender Innovation Lab’s research agenda on socio-emotional skills, occupational segregation and women’s economic empowerment. Her research also delves into risk management and technology adoption among poor farmers, as well as performance-based incentives and monitoring as tools for improving service delivery.