Elita Thokozani Chayala is a gender and social development expert with 18 years of experience. She works as a Gender Based Violence (GBV) Consultant with the Malawi World Bank Country office. Her main areas of technical expertise include gender analysis of laws, policies and strategies in the field of social development. In the course of her work, she provides technical advice on issues of gender & social inclusion, GBV prevention & response programming in infrastructure development projects, livelihood projects and gender equality & women empowerment projects.