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Phil Franks

Principal researcher (biodiversity), Natural Resources

Phil Franks is an expert on the social dimension of natural resource management and conservation, with a particular focus on better understanding and applying social equity principles in this context.
Full biography

He is currently working on the development of low-cost methods for assessing the social impacts of protected areas and protected area governance, conservation-development linkages, and social and environmental safeguards for REDD+, the international effort to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. He has extensive experience in Africa, Nepal, Southeast Asia and South America.

Expertise
  • Conservation and human-wellbeing/poverty, natural resource governance, REDD+, climate-smart agriculture
  • Particular experience in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, DRC, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ghana, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru
Before IIED
  • Global coordinator, Poverty, Environmental and Climate Change Network, CARE International
  • Project coordinator, BirdLife International
  • Project manager, Development through Conservation, CARE Uganda.
  • MA Natural Sciences, Cambridge University.  MSc Resource Management, Edinburgh University

Current work

  • Assessment of the social impacts of protected areas
  • Integrated conservation and development
  • Equity in conservation and REDD+
  • Social and environmental safeguards for REDD+

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Telephone: 
+ 44 (0)7867 319 907
Email: 
phil.franks@iied.org
Languages: English, French

Latest publications

SAPA, SAGE ou GAPA ? Outils d'évaluation des impacts sociaux, de la gouvernance et de l'équité de la conservation

SAPA, SAGE or GAPA? Tools for assessing the social impacts, governance, and equity of conservation

Food and forests: understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Ethiopia

Food and Forests: Understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Zambia

Food and forests: understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Ghana

Agriculture, nature conservation or both? Managing trade-offs and synergies in sub-Saharan Africa

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Phil Franks's blog posts

Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya is home to four of the seven northern white rhino left in the world. The park is using SAPA as part of its community programme (Photo: Guy Lemal)

Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections

Blog, Sep 2014
A giraffe takes stock at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Social Assessment of Protective Area fieldwork starts next week (Photo: www.kicheche.com  via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas

Blog, Mar 2014
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