Natural Resource Management & Conservation Specialist
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Work experience in Cameroon

Work experience in Cameroon

Workshop Facilitator for the negotiation of legal partnership agreements between the FAO Bushmeat Project, IUCN, CIFOR and CIRAD. The project seeks to develop community-based management of wildlife for the sustainable production and marketing of bushmeat and the project staff had not succeeded in negotiating the partnership agreements — 2013.

Program Evaluation Team Leader for a $130 million slice of the Central African Program for the Environment operating in nine Congo Basin countries. Found the “landscape approach” and land use planning of to be the two greatest strengths of $140 million CARPE Program. Documented good progress on PA management and industrial-scale natural forest management. Found community-based natural resource management to be the weakest aspect of CARPE. Found that nearly all of CARPE’s landscape interventions have secondary positive effects on climate change mitigation. Met with project implementing partners in Yaounde — 2010 & 11.

Environmental and Social Assessment Interpreted and applied World Bank Safeguard Policies to six pilot project sites in five Lake Chad Basin countries for a World Bank/GEF international waters project. The very significant risk identified in Cameroon was of potential catastrophic dam failure of a 20km long earthen dam with periodic “piping” that could easily lead to failure if not quickly detected and rectified. Our assessment activated this safeguard and corrective actions were ostensibly taken. The mission was plagued with multiple security concerns — 2001.