Sulekha has worked extensively with UN groups on improving data quality for social indicators and, for improving the quality and availability of gender statistics and indicators. As team leader of the Socio-Demographic team in the World Bank’s Development Data Group, she also has experience working directly with countries to integrate gender into national statistical and monitoring and evaluation systems. With counterparts from the UN Statistics Division and the Bank’s Gender and Development Department, she co-founded the Global Forum on Gender Statistics, and its two Inter-Agency and Expert Groups on Gender Statistics and Capacity Building.