Natural Resource Management & Conservation Specialist
Translation
 تحرير الترجمة
Work experience in Seychelles

Work experience in Seychelles

Sustainable land management project design Provided short focused training missions for UNDP Country Offices in setting up work-plans and outlines for Sustainable Land Management GEF PDF proposals. Supported the development of a project to develop capacities for fire management and control of invasive alien species. 2006

GEF Biodiversity Mainstreaming Project Design Led the development of a large biodiversity mainstreaming project to integrate biodiversity into economic productive sectors. The project targeted the tourism, industrial fisheries and artisanal fisheries sectors. 2005

Project Design Led the development of a GEF project brief for a national self-assessment of capacities needed to meet Seychelles’ obligations under the international conventions on biodiversity, climate change and desertification. Identified country specific needs for systems-level capacity assessment, for capacities for implicating civil society and for assessing the applicability of the Convention to Combat Desertification to the Seychelles. 2002&3.

Project Development/Supervision Coordinator Biodiversity/Indian Ocean Under a 1999-2003 UNOPS retainer contract for the provision of technical and administrative supervision/backstopping fore UNDP-funded biodiversity initiatives in the western Indian Ocean islands, I authored a concept paper for a joint UNDP/World Bank biodiversity project in Seychelles that was approved by GEF.