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        Kuntum Melati

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      Kuntum Melati is a Research Fellow with SEI Asia. She joined SEI in March 2020. She is part of the Policy Cluster and focuses her work on building partnership and collaboration in achieving SDGs, especially on the topic of Sustainable Food Systems,  Circular Economy, and Natural Resource Management. Kuntum has published various policy briefs such as “Circular Bio-Economy and Innovative Urban Food System Management to Promote Food Security and Climate Resilience”, “Sustainable Value Chains Food System and Agriculture”, and “Barriers and Drivers for Enterprises to transition to Circular Economy”.

      She brings 10 years of experience in development in Southeast Asia and internationally, having taken on various roles from research, facilitation and program management. She has been working with donor and partners to strengthen the agency of smallholders and SMEs through various projects such as Climate Entrepreneurship in South East Asia , Green Recovery framework, Just and Inclusive Food Systems, and various projects on accelerating circular economy through actionable and impactful research. 

      Kuntum holds an MA in Gender and Peace Building from the UN University for Peace and an MSc in Environment and Development from the University of Edinburgh.

      Publications by Kuntum Melati

      • Food waste minimization and circularity for optimizing urban food system resilience
      • Accelerating the transition to a circular economy through impactful and actionable research
      • Barriers and drivers for enterprises to transition to circular economy
      • SDG localization baseline: How local-level actors are driving change and advancing the achievement of the 2030 Agenda
      • Línea base de localización de los ODS: cómo los actores locales están impulsando el cambio y avanzando en la consecución de la Agenda 2030
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      Perspectives by Kuntum Melati

      • How to make climate entrepreneurship work for climate action in Southeast Asia?
      • Let's get the SDGs back on track

      Featured stories with Kuntum Melati

      • SEI Asia podcast: Minimizing urban food waste through a food delivery app
      • Recuperando el rumbo de los ODS: perspectivas de América Latina y Asia

      Projects and tools with Kuntum Melati

      • Community climate resilience in critical mineral supply chains
      • Centre for Finance for Sustainability Bangkok
      • Inclusive Climate Finance for Communities in the Asia Pacific (ICCAP)
      • Accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level
      • Agroecology and Safe Food System Transitions in Southeast Asia
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