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The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has launched an International Fellowship scheme. The scheme seeks to strengthen further the ways in which IIED works as an international organisation. The award of an International Fellowship is an opportunity to recognise publicly the contribution made by a small number of key people around the world with whom we have been working, or with whom we plan to work. This award is by invitation only. We hope that this award of a fellowship will also offer an opportunity to International Fellows for a more sustained and systematic relationship with the Institute and our five research groups in future. We would hope to host Fellows at IIED for short periods, to enable greater contact between them and staff members. The aim is to create the conditions for new ideas and activities to flourish, within a framework of mutual learning, and respect. Please see below the list of our current International Fellows, including a short biography. Mozaharul Alam (Climate Change Group) Mozaharul Alam (Climate Change Group) Mozaharul is a Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS). His specialisation is on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability assessment to climate change, integrated environment assessment and natural resource management. He has applied spatial tools and models such as GIS, RS, GCM and COMAP in the fields of climate change, environment and natural resource management. Mozaharul obtained an MSc in Geography from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. Mozaharul has worked as National Project Coordinator of the Formulation of National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) of Bangladesh. He has participated in a number of studies including; "Bangladesh Climate Change Country Study under the US Climate Change Studies Programme", "Assessment of Vulnerability of Coastal Areas to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise; A Pilot Study in Bangladesh" and "Asia Least-Cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement Strategy (ALGAS) study, Bangladesh". Mozaharul was a member of the technical working committee that prepared the "Initial National Communication of Bangladesh". Mozaharul has attended several international conferences, seminars and workshops including the Conference of the Parties (COPs) and Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) Meeting to the UNFCCC. He has contributed to a number of books and published papers in international journals.
Kojo Amanor (Natural Resources Group) Kojo Amanor is Associate Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He joined the Institute in 1993. From 1988 to 1990 he was Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute, London – Pastoral Development Network and Research and Extension Network. In 1989 Kojo was awarded a PhD from the Department of Anthropology, University College London, London University and gained a BA Hons at the School of Oriental & African Studies in 1979 in African History and Social Anthropology. His main research interest has been on land, natural resource management, long term perspectives in environmental change, environmental information systems, farming systems and plant genetic resources, including domesticated food crops such as yams and new forest plants, including Allanblackia. He is author of the New Frontier: Farmers perspectives on land degradation: A west African case study, Global Restructuring and Land Rights in Ghana: Forest food chains, Timber and Rural Livelihoods, and an editor of Cultivating Knowledge: Genetic diversity, Farmer Experimentation and crop research. He is co-editor (with Sam Moyo) of Sustainable Development and Land in Africa, which will be published later this year.
Hernán Blanco Palma (Governance Group) Hernán is Executive Director and Founding Partner of RIDES research center, Chile. RIDES is an internationally well-recognised institution, particularly in issues such as trade and environment, access to environmental information, public participation, conflict management and climate change related issues. RIDES is a member of a number of networks including the Ring (regional international networking group), TKN (trade knowledge network), Partnership for Principle 10, the Nairobi Work Programme on Climate Change, and the Access Initiative. Prior to RIDES, Hernán worked for the CIPMA research center for five years as an Associate Researcher. He also worked for the EULA Centre, at the University of Concepción, for six years as a full-time researcher, lecturer and consultant. Hernán’s general interests include the analysis of sustainable development and the improvement of public policy, particularly the design and setting up of multi-actor dialogue processes for participatory research projects on issues related to sustainable development. Hernán has recently been focused on: Chilean assessment process to determine the state of compliance of UN multilateral environmental agreements; Trade and environment capacity building in Central America; Sustainability Impact Assessment methods for trade policies; Public participation and conflict management; Mining and social & environmental responsibility in South America; and Trade and international conflicts in the South.
Celine d'Cruz (Human Settlements Group) Celine was one of the founding members of the Indian NGO Society for the Promotion of Area Resources (SPARC) in1984. She is currently one of the global coordinators of Slum/Shack Dwellers International, an umbrella organization formed by fifteen national slum/shack/homeless people's federations to support each other and new emerging federations and has assisted the development of federations of the poor in several countries including Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Kenya, Uganda, Namibia and Zimbabwe. As coordinator of SDI, Celine has been involved in planning and launching the United Nations Campaign for Secure Tenure in India, Philippines, South Africa and Namibia. These international processes and events have involved interaction with a wide range of stakeholders like poor communities, city agencies, government authorities, UN bodies and bilateral groups. Celine has also worked with SPARC’s partners the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan (a federation of women's slum and pavement dweller savings groups) on a large grassroots-managed programme of house construction and upgrading. During 2003-04, she was a World Fellow at Yale University, and spent six months working in IIED's office in London as a visiting fellow. She has written extensively about grassroots-led development particularly in the urban sector. Celine holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from Mumbai University.
Jiri holds a Degree in Water Resource Engineering from the Czech Technical University and has 15 years experience of environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA). He specialises in the integration of SEA into regional development planning, land-use planning and socio-economic planning. Jiri managed the Sofia EIA Initiative - a large regional programme launched by the third Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" to facilitate SEA reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2001-2003, Jiri headed the Czech delegation for the negotiations on the UNECE SEA Protocol to the Espoo Convention. He is a lead author of a SEA Handbook for the European Union’s Cohesion Policy in 2007-2013 and was a core team member for the UNEP Integrated Assessment and Planning for Sustainable Development Initiative. More recently Jiri has worked on an international study on SEA in Japan (2002), and on SEA training programs in Thailand (2003) and China (2004, 2006). At present, he is the EIA/SEA Advisor to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam through the SEMLA programme on environment and land administration. Jiri served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Impact Assessment (2003-2006) and co-chaired the first global IAIA conference on SEA (International experience and perspectives in SEA) in Prague, 2005.
Taghi Farvar (Natural Resources Group) Taghi Farvar from Iran is Chair of IUCN/CEESP and Co-chair of its Theme on Sustainable Livelihoods. He is an action leader with deep commitment to helping rural communities in their own defined paths towards sustainable development and conservation of natural resources. In recent years Taghi has been on the Governing Board of the Global IPM Facility (Rome) besides working as independent consultant for local communities, UN agencies and conservation and development organisations in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Colombia, Iran, Jamaica, Sudan, Yemen, Zaire, Madagascar and many other countries. He was part of the Team that developed the Durban Accord and Action Plan at the 5th World Parks Congress in Durban (South Africa, 2003) and is highly engaged as Chairperson of the Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA) - one of the most active conservation NGOs in Iran, which he co-founded in 1979. Taghi is fluent in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Turkish and Persian.
Marie Monimart (Natural Resources Group) Marie Monimart has worked for 25 years in Sub Saharan Africa - especially in the West African Sahel countries, in Madagascar and in Central Africa, plus a short experience in Haïti and Cambodia. Her work is focused on gender issues, more specifically related to equitable natural resources management, household livelihood security, and pastoralism. Following a four year assignment (2002-2006) in Niger as a coordinator for the CARE Denmark programme , she is now involved in research on gender, land tenure and decentralisation issues in Sub Saharan Africa with IIED. She is also adapting facilitation training and basic tools to reinforce field partners and agents' skills in their day-to-day job within their communities, enabling the marginalized to express their voice. She keeps a special interest on strengthening pastoral civil society - especially in terms of sustainable access to water and pasture and a better understanding of the crucial diversity of their mobile livelihoods in SSA. One main challenge ahead is how to promote - and advocate for - a more effective and sustainable integration of gender issues, integrating local societies' concept and visions, into poverty reduction, since little progress has been made so far to answer Esther Boserup's questions in 1970.
Lwandle Mqadi (Climate Change Group) Lwandle earned her BSc in Agriculture (Rural Development) from the University of Zululand, her Bsc Honours Agricultural Economics (Rural and Agricultural Finance) from the Standard Bank School of Rural and Agricultural Finance at the University of Pretoria and an MSc in Agricultural Economics (Environmental Economics) from the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the University of Pretoria. In 2002 Lwandle joined the SouthSouthNorth Group (SSN) as Technical Team Member assisting with the design of small-scale Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects and was appointed as a baseline reviewer by the UNFCCC’s Executive Board. In 2004, she joined the SSN Adaptation Programme as a Regional Co-ordinator for the Southern Africa Team. In October 2006, she moved on to join EcoSecurities Sub-Sahara Team as a Project Manager (Origination) in South Africa focusing on the development and identification of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) within this region. She has contributed to various journals and presented on various platforms focusing on climate change impacts, energy and climate change mitigation as they relate to the Southern African Region. Her focus and interests are on establishing linkages between sustainable markets (business and sustainable development) and climate change teams. Linked to this, is her interest on new developments in the voluntary markets in which "value" on sustainable developmental activities implemented to adapt and to mitigate climate change are prioritised.
Diego holds a Masters degree in Environmental Management and Planning from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Ambientales (FLACAM). He worked as rural development advisor at DFID, and was in charge of DFID’s rural development agenda in Bolivia until June 2007. Diego also has managed a programme on participatory research that was part of the Bolivian System of Agricultural Technology Innovation (a publication about this experience will be published shortly). Diego was a member of the PROCADE co-ordination team, a national NGO network that worked with Production, Environment and Technology transfer issues. He has also worked as an advisor for small peasant milk producers', and was part of the team that developed a proposal for the National Strategy for Rural Development (ENDAR) that was implemented as a public policy between 2002 and 2006. Diego has carried out project evaluations and consultancies for private and public institutions on: environmental management issues, natural resources management and evaluations on the impact of rural development programmes on peasant communities. He has also taught courses on small farmers' agriculture at different Bolivian universities. Diego has published two books with IIED: “Public policies and processes in the Bolivian Andes” Colección: “Policies that work” and “Small farmers economic organisations and public policies a comparative study”. He has also recently published a book called: "Facilitando el acceso de pequeñosproductores a mejores mercados: Una experiencia de políticas en Bolivia" (Facilitating the access of small producers to better markets: An experience of public policies in Bolivia).
Isilda Nhantumbo (Natural Resources Group) Isilda has a PhD in Forest Economics/ Natural Resource Management from the University of Edinburgh (1993-97) and a BSc in Forestry from Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. She is currently an independent consultant on Natural Resources Management and Policy Analysis. Isilda worked for 5 and half years with IUCN, first as the country programme coordinator in Mozambique and later as Coordinator for the Regional Forestry Programme. Before joining IUCN she worked for 10 years at Eduardo Mondlane University as a lecturer and researcher. Isilda has also worked as a researcher in the southern African region for projects run by the Institute for Development Studies, UK (IDS) and the Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia (CIFOR). Isilda has chaired the National Forum on Community Based Natural Resource Management and has worked with IIED on forest policy and land tenure issues. She has co-organized and facilitated two National CBNRM conferences and has contributed significantly to NRM policy analysis, testing models for implementation of participatory natural resources management, coordinated the design of NBSAP, SEA for the Agricultural Sector Programme among others. She is currently working on land and forest tenure issues - looking at who owns and controls what forest resources and how the policy and legal framework provides ground for equitable ownership, access and control of resources. Isilda is also looking at how the devolution of resources tenure to local communities contributes to changing livelihoods and to the achievement of the MDGs in Africa.
Victor works for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) as Research Officer within the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) Programme. He is based at the IDRC Eastern and Southern Africa Office in Nairobi. Before joining IDRC in September 2006, he worked as Research Fellow for the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) (2003-2006). He Joined ACTS from Kenyatta University where he lectured for one year in the Department of Environmental Science. Victor holds a Master of Environmental Science (2002) and Bachelor of Environmental Science (1998) Degrees from Kenyatta University. He was the CLACC Regional Fellow for East Africa between 2004 and 2006. He has researched and published widely on climate change adaptation.
Coral Pasisi (Governance Group) Coral is the Environment and Resources Officer in the Sustainable Development Programme of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat based in Suva, Fiji. She is a citizen of Niue (a Pacific island country). She has also worked as Sustainable Development Officer and Associate Programme Officer at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) based in Apia, Samoa, where she assisted the work on developing the Pacific regional type II partnerships. Coral has been a member of the UNDP funded initiative by the University of the West Indies to study SIDS vulnerability and resilience, and played a major role in the preparations by the Alliance of Small Island States for the Mauritius International Meeting. She is the author of the 1998 Capacity Building for Environmental Management in the Pacific Country Report for Niue. It has been said that "she is without a doubt one of the best golfers in the Pacific Islands."
Jesper is Associate Professor in economics at Göteborg University, Sweden. His research (most of which has been in developing countries) is oriented towards agricultural issues and towards nature tourism. Jesper has an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Copenhagen and a Ph.D. in Economics from Umeå University.
Lyuba is Associate Professor in the International Environmental Policy Program of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Lyuba is an internationally recognized scholar and policy analyst in the field of globalisation, sustainable development, and market governance. In the 1990s, she co-founded and co-directed the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, based in Berkeley, California. She designed and directed agenda-setting research projects on trade, investment, and environment, human rights and the environment, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable development cooperation in Asia Pacific. She has consulted with a wide range of international organizations, including the OECD, Asian Development Bank, and UN Development Program, as well as the Government of Australia. Lyuba's current work focuses on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations in promoting--or undermining--prospects for sustainable development. In 2005, Earthscan Press published her edited book, International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards, the product of an international collaboration exploring sustainable and ethical investment rules. Lyuba's most recent book, Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley, examines the rise and fall of Mexico's post-NAFTA hopes for a dynamic FDI-driven high tech industry. Co-authored with Kevin Gallagher, the book will be published by MIT Press in September 2007. Copyright © 2005 International Institute for Environment and Development. |
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