About Umbu Reku Raya
Umbu Reku Raya is a development economist studying inequalities in opportunities and development outcomes, both between and within groups, in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. His experience includes more than a decade of community surveys and quantitative impact evaluation.
Since 2020, he has trained and mentored groups on Sumba Island in adopting agrosilvopasture technologies and addressing slavery as part of efforts to reduce extreme poverty.
His methodological expertise includes household-survey design, econometrics, and PAM; livelihoods and resilience assessment in rural and agricultural settings; contribution analysis and value-pathway modelling for donor reporting; and the integration of gender, disability, and social-inclusion perspectives into livelihoods and wellbeing studies.