Dr. Jafa has been specializing in Arts in Development Programs.

1. She has taught at the HellerSchool, in the Sustainable Development Program, BrandeisUniversity a paper titled: "Culture, Development and Performance"
2. She is a guest faculty at the school of Mass Communication at the JamiaUniversityNew Delhi where she teaches Performing Arts in Development Communications.
3. She has given talks on Arts and Development Communication which includes one at United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
4. Participated in UN-GIFT - Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking - New Delhi, 2007 : Round table discussion on the Role of Arts, Media and Popular Culture in Fighting Human Trafficking.

Her Articles and Monograph ON Arts in Development Programs includes:-
Monograph:-

1. Flow & Integration: Performing Arts- Tools of Development Communication.
2. Journal of Mass Communication published by the Indian School of Mass Communication

Articles:-

1. Innovations in Governance: Participatory Democracy: Women in Rural India: Using Performing Arts in Development Programs.
2. Performing Arts in Development Communication
3. Ongoing Research in Arts in Development :
4. Creating Ethnography of Performance for Development Communication:

Women in Rural India:-
Case Studies:-

1. Education of elected illiterate women in local government, through ballads on community radio (region – Kutch)
2. Education of women in traditional under-developed communities, using folk songs and story-telling on community radio (Jharkhand)
3. Rehabilitation of Women affected by Tsunami, using puppetry (Pondicherry)
4. Reclaiming Organic Farming and issues of food security by underprivileged caste women, through folk songs and theatre (Andhra Pradesh)

Foundation for Arts:-
The non profit non governmental organization has the following major projects:

1. Sustainable Development through Crafts: www.foundationforarts.com
2. Artist Fund: Promotion of young artists, financial assistance through Fund raising programs for ailing artists, art scholars Activity Tourism in Craft villages
3. Creating projects to enjoin urban individual artists and community artisans
4. Conceptualizing Events for Fund Raising
5. Cultural Innovation:  International Conference on Science & Technology for Sustainability: Global Eco Systems: Kyoto 2006.

Paper presented: Sustainable development: Innovations in the Crafts Sectors in India:-
Innovation has become the focus of attention both for the private sector, where it has become a critical source of sustainable competitive advantage in the globally integrated economies, and for the public sector, whose pressing challenge is balancing economic development with building a sustainable society.