Ced Hesse

Ced Hesse was a senior fellow and team leader, climate resilience, productivity and equity in the drylands, in IIED's Climate Change research group until September 2024

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Languages: English, French

Ced Hesse is an expert on the livelihoods of dryland areas, particularly pastoralism. His work focusses on delivering devolved financial mechanisms to access and manage climate finance, enabling community prioritisation of funds, resilience planning, and developing M&E systems for tracking the impacts of adaptation. 

He is also interested in the design and delivery of policy-oriented training based on experiential learning, and is working on mainstreaming knowledge of dryland livelihoods into university curriculums in Ethiopia and Kenya. 

Expertise

Policy analysis on dryland livehoods systems, particularly pastoralism; design and delivery of policy-oriented training based on experiential learning; and policy-oriented communications and advocacy.

Before IIED

Director of the Arid Lands Information Network, Dakar, Senegal.