Natural Resource Management & Conservation Specialist
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Work experience in Chad

Work experience in Chad

Environmental and Social Assessment I was team leader for an assessment of the environmental and social impacts of a GEF/World Bank international waters project for the Lake Chad Basin. Interpreted and applied World Bank Safeguard Policies to six pilot project sites in five Lake Chad Basin countries. Identified key concerns to be, a) risks of inequities associated with negotiated changes in natural resource access for all pilots, and, b) significant risks of dam failure for the Cameroon site. Frequently revised plans and itinerary due to multiple security concerns (The work was done just after the 9/11 attacks in the US). Employed by World Bank in 2001.

National biodiversity strategy and action plan (NBSAP) development. I drafted a guidebook for the development of national biodiversity strategies and action plans based on my work assisting national planning teams. Guidebook was distributed at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in May 98. Assisted national strategy development on 11 missions nine countries between 1997 and 2001 including a mission to Chad. Stakeholder meetings for NBSAP preparation were broadcast over the radio and served dramatically to raise national awareness about land use issues.

Agroforestry design as a component of a program to resettle displaced pastoralists who had lost all of their livestock in wadi bottoms north and northeast of Lake Chad. The displaced pastoralists were being trained to do irrigated gardening using shadoofs to raise water from the shallow wells. Design included wind breaks, live fences, alley cropping and intercropping with fruit/multi purpose trees. A colleague who visited the site a year later said that the agroforestry system developed in the resettled wadis looked just like the sketch I had done in my design document.