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David Pertaub

Researcher, Climate Change

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.
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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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Email: 
david.pertaub@iied.org
Languages: English, Italian (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), French (basic)

David Pertaub's projects

Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)

Project, Jul 2018

Latest publications

MGNREGS: Integrated watershed management and climate resilience

Muongozo / zana ya sauti ya pamoja katika kuimarisha ustahimilivu wa mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa na tabia nchi

Understanding local climate priorities: applying a gender and generation focused planning tool in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar

Pamoja voices climate-resilience planning toolkit. To support inclusive climate-resilient planning for rural communities

Every voice counts in a changing climate

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