People

Stuart Worsley

Senior associate (locally-led action – development and strategy advisor)

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Languages: English, Bahasa Indonesia (fluent), French (good working knowledge)

With 35 years’ international development facilitation and operational management in in Africa, Asia and Europe, Stuart specialises in action-based participation, learning and networks, connecting local social demand with evolving global policy for just transition.

Expertise

  • Design and delivery of bottom-up change processes in response to climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality
  • Convening dialogues, connecting and bridging across levels, between civil society, policymakers and academia; connecting people to policy, and science to practice; 
  • Helping governments and international agencies to engage local voice and action to accelerate the just transition to a green economy
  • Designing, managing and monitoring programmes for impact, with a focus on participation and inclusion in change (policy recommendations through dialogues and platforms)
  • Facilitating multistakeholder processes
  • Participatory analysis through systemic action research, and
  • Technical expertise in sustainable small-scale agriculture, natural resources, green enterprise development, and water and sanitation systems.

Before IIED

  • Country director, Ethiopia, Mercy Corps (2015-17)
  • Head of development partnerships, ILRI (2012-15)
  • Regional director – Balkans, SNV (2010-12)
  • Director – Kenya and Sudan, SNV (2004-10)
  • Programme director, Kenya, CARE (2003-04)
  • Executive director, Project HOPE UK (2001-03)
  • Country/programme director, Afghanistan, CARE (1996-2001)
  • Project manager FarmLink, Egypt, CARE (1992-95)
  • Project officer, Afghanistan, Afghanaid (1991-92)
  • Lecturer, Indonesia, University of West Papua (1986-89)

Education

  • MSc, tropical agricultural development (economics and planning), University of Reading
  • BSc, agriculture, Wye College, University of London

Current work

  • Green Economy Coalition (GEC): oversight of national hubs in eight countries (Uganda, South Africa, India, Peru, Caribbean, Brazil, Mongolia, Senegal) 
  • With IIED-Europe, supporting GEC hubs and partners to secure local agency and influence over European Union policy instruments with respect to critical raw minerals and the circular economy, and
  • With IIED, supporting the reseating of the GEC network into a new host.