Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
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David Pertaub
Researcher, Climate Change
Telephone: +44 (0)20 3463 7399
Languages:
English,
Italian (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), French (basic)
David has a background in anthropology with a research focus on pastoralism and the drylands (East Africa), water governance, the impacts of large scale development projects (dams), and indigenous conceptions of prosperity and poverty.
Expertise
East African pastoralism; water governance.
Before IIED
David previously worked as a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at University College London on an ESCR-DFID funded project called SIDERA – ‘Shifting (In)equality Dynamics from Research to Application’ (2018-2019). He explored recent social and environmental change in a remote part of southwest Ethiopia – the lower Omo valley – with a particular focus on the downstream impact of a mega-dam (the Gibe III) on vulnerable and marginalised agro-pastoralist communities living along the river Omo.
He has spent considerable time living and working among the pastoralist Nyangatom people on the border between South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Education
He holds a Masters in Anthropology, Development and the Environment from University College London (2016)
Current work
Devolved climate finance, adaptation and resilience in the drylands; gender and climate change; water governance.
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