Participants
The workshop held from 3-5 October, 2012, included a wide range of gender practitioners and researchers from various development sectors.
Augustin Kimonyo is a senior consultant, working with different actors promoting gender equality both nationally and internationally. Most recently he has been working for PROMUNDO, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, known as one of the world leading organisations championing the involvement of men in addressing gender inequalities through the famous MenEngage approach. Kimonyo served as a National Expert in the first-of-its-kind study on Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence in Rwanda (2010). The study used the PROMUNDO’ s tool known under the name of International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), to come up with recommendations for a more active involvement of men in tackling gender inequalities in the country with a special emphasis on gender-based violence (GBV) of which women and children are the majority among the victims.
Augustin is also a professional researcher and trainer for PROMUNDO and partners in the region. He is one of the team of consultants conducting a study on involvement of men in addressing gender inequalities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) under the coordination of PROMUNDO and Sonke Gender Justice South Africa. He has just contributed in the planning workshop of a similar study about to start in Malawi.
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Andrea Rodericks is the Executive Director for Program Quality and Learning at CARE India. Prior to this she was CARE USA’s senior technical advisor for women and agriculture. She has spent most of her career in south Asia and southern Africa and her areas of expertise are program design and development, with a particular focus on programming to facilitate the empowerment of women, pro-poor governance and sustainable rural livelihoods. |
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Anne Maree Schwartz is AAS programme leader for Solomon Islands. Prior to this was Country Manager of the Solomon Islands WorldFish Office. An aquatic ecologist by training her work is currently focused on community level governance and management of small scale fisheries. Anna will lead the roll out of the program in the Solomons. |
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Anne Marie Golla is an economist and evaluation specialist with the Economic Development Team of the International Center for Research on Women. Her work focuses on measuring women’s economic empowerment through rigorous evaluation methods and on women’s jobs and enterprise. Anne has extensive experience with impact evaluation, research on women in the workplace and in the household, and project monitoring and evaluation. At ICRW, Anne is currently leading the evaluation of a social communications program in the Dominican Republic aimed at improving women’s savings behaviors, among other programs. She also provides technical assistance in evaluation and economic analysis to other ICRW programs. |
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Beth Timmers is a Program Associate with the CGIAR research program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems and WorldFish. She completed a Research Assistantship with the Policy, Economics and Social Science Division of WorldFish last year, following an internship with the Canadian International Development Agency in Uganda, working with agricultural cooperatives in post-conflict regions. She received her MA in Global Development Studies from Queen’s University, and her BA (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Winnipeg. |
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Boru Douthwaite is a technology policy analyst and evaluator. His research is aimed at understanding how research output and process can be used to catalyze and bolster rural innovation processes, in particular, how the practice of doing research for development can be improved. To this end Boru has pioneered the use of theory of change in the CGIAR as a framework for communications, monitoring, evaluation, reflection, learning and impact assessment. Boru previously worked for the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) as the Innovation and Impact Director where he led the design and implementation of CPWF activities relating to generating and evaluating outcomes and impacts. Boru will lead the Knowledge Sharing and Learning theme for CRP AAS. |
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Brigitte Schnegg is Historian by training and actually Professor for Gender Studies at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG) at the University of Berne, Switzerland, of which she is also the director. She is as well Guest Professor at the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland). Brigitte Schnegg is also member of the Board of the Swiss Centre of Competence in Human Rights. Research interests of Brigitte Schnegg include the social history of gender relations, gender history of poverty, welfare and social work, care, women’s rights as human rights and feminism. |
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Caren Grown is Senior Gender Advisor in the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning, where she leads USAID’s efforts to integrate gender equality and female empowerment throughout the agency’s policies and programs. Dr. Grown is on leave as Economist-In-Residence at American University, where she also co-directed the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics. Formerly, she was Senior Scholar and Co-Director of the Gender Equality and Economy Program at The Levy Economics Institute at Bard College and Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance team at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). She is the author of several books on gender issues in trade, public finance, and development, and her articles have appeared in World Development, Journal of International Development, Feminist Economics, Health Policy and Planning, and The Lancet. |
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Charles Crissman is Division Director for the Policy, Economics and Social Science group in WorldFish. His research focus is on impact assessment. He was previously at the International Potato Center where he was posted in Lima, Quito and Nairobi where he led research on seed systems and integrated assessment of pesticide impacts and held various research management posts. Charlie will lead the Markets theme for CRP AAS and chair the roll out working group of the Program Leadership Team. |
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Christine Okali is a sociologist with research, policy-practice and teaching experience in rural development, and especially agricultural development. Main policy and research concerns include the persistence of narratives that constrain innovative approaches to the analysis of social relations including gender relations in various institutional settings, and of social and cultural change more broadly. Argues that the analytical approaches long associated with gender analysis in research and development will need to be reviewed if we are to achieve sustainable, transformative changes in gender relations. |
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David Walker is a Gender and Social Development specialist, with particular experience in gender and child poverty/vulnerability analysis methodologies (inc. child protection), risk reduction, policy processes (analysis, drivers of change, political economy) and corresponding qualitative/participatory research methods. Over 8 years’ experience with NGOs and research institutions, with fieldwork in South Africa, Uganda and Thailand and geographic specialities on Sub-Saharan and Southern Africa. Co-author of the Policy Press publication ‘Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development: A practical guide’ (2012). |
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Diane Lindsey has over 26 years experience in development work in Africa and South/South East Asia. She has a strong background in Agriculture and nutrition, food security and livelihoods from program development to management. Others areas of extensive field work and training include research, monitoring and evaluation and participatory facilitation. She has worked extensively at both the field and HQ level. She holds an M.P.H. |
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Emily Hillenbrand holds a master’s degree in Women, Gender, and Development from the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. She has worked for three years on gender and program management for Helen Keller International Bangladesh and is currently Regional Coordinator for Gender and Program Design at HKI’s Asia-Pacific Regional Office. |
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Eve Crowley is Deputy Director and Officer-in Charge of the Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), having previously served as Senior Officer for Rural Employment and Livelihoods, Senior Officer for Rural Institutions and Poverty Reduction (FAO), Senior Advisor on Household Food Security, Nutrition and Gender (IFAD), Land and Natural Resource Tenure Officer (FAO), and Programme Officer with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) and the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme (TSBF-CIAT) in Nairobi, Kenya. She has served on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical and on boards of a number of professional networks. Before that, she worked as a consultant with the Club du Sahel (OECD), UNESCO, USAID, and numerous other multilateral, bilateral and non-governmental organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1988-1994). Dr. Crowley holds Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Anthropology from Yale University, B.A. degrees in Government and Anthropology from Smith College and has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright-Hayes, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, among others. She has a working knowledge of English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Kriolu of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Her work with rural women, communities and peoples’ organizations has inspired a deep commitment to communicating the importance of social and gender equality, local ingenuity, rural institutions, social inclusiveness and cultural diversity for sustainable development. She has published numerous publications, policy briefs and encyclopaedia articles on sustainable agriculture and rural development, organizations of the poor, local institutions and livelihoods, women's property rights, household food and nutrition security, agrarian and land use change, rural labour dynamics, and soil management and agroforestry practices. |
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Frederick Mubiru Kintu Is the Program Manager of the Gender Roles Equality and Transformations(GREAT) Project in Gulu Northern Uganda since December of 2011. He works for the Institute of Reproductive Health, Georgetown University. He has been at the fore front of coordinating the GREAT partnership consortium to disseminate research findings, roll out interventions and develop the project's scalable products. He has over 8 years experience in programmatic research, monitoring and evaluation and project management of Sexual and Reproductive Health and gender programs. He has written and presented papers at several international meetings and conferences including the Women Deliver(2010). |
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Gareth Johnstone is a scientist with the Policy, Economics and Social Science Department of WorldFish. He is currently leading the roll out process of Aquatic Agricultural Systems in Cambodia. In addition to his PhD in Coastal Resource Management from Kings College London, UK, he has 15 years of professional experience in project management, fisheries research and development, and institution and capacity building in 8 countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. His specific area of expertise involves natural resource management, governance issues, policy development, capacity building, institutional development, coastal management, sustainable livelihoods, food security and small-scale fisheries. |
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Govind Kelkar is the Senior Adviser, Landesa/Rural Development Institute and Senior Fellow at International Center for Research on Women, New Delhi, India. Earlier, April 2004 to March 2012, she worked as “Senior Advisor: Programme and Research ,Economic Empowerment Unit, UN Women, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India. She has previously taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. At AIT, Dr Kelkar founded the graduate program in Gender Development Studies and also the Gender, Technology and Development Journal, published by SAGE, India. Dr.Kelkar has authored 9 books and numerous articles on the subject Gender, Land, Agriculture, Technology and Energy. |
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Isatou Jallow is from the Gambia and trained as a nutritionist at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has 24 years of field and policy experience in nutrition, gender, women’s issues and advocacy. She now serves as the Chief of Women, Children and Gender Policy for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) based in Rome. In her current position, she is responsible for the development and coordination of WFP’s policy on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Prior to this, she served as the Executive Director of the National Nutrition Agency in the Gambia where she was responsible for placing nutrition on the development agenda and advocating the same at the global level. Her achievements include the adaptation of the global UNICEF/WHO Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) into a community initiative – Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI), and engaging men to support and share the responsibility for improved maternal and infant/young child nutrition. |
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Jacqueline Ashby is a development sociologist (Ph D, Cornell University), currently senior advisor on gender research at the CGIAR Consortium Office. As a Rockefeller Foundation post-doctoral fellow and later senior scientist, she was among a small group of social scientists who pioneered the scientific application of participatory research methods to plant breeding at CIAT. Dr Ashby launched the CGIAR system-wide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (1997-2002) that contributed to worldwide adoption of participatory plant breeding methods. She has authored numerous articles on the themes of farmer participation in research, “citizen science” and social inequality, in particular gender. |
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Jane Brown, MHS, has over 20 years in development communication and production, with an emphasis on gender, adolescent reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, program management, and mass media. She has experience developing S/BCC strategies, messages and materials including radio distance learning programs and toolkits. Ms. Brown was one of the principle innovators of the evaluated African Transformation toolkit which enables women and men to explore the underlying gender barriers and facilitators and develop realistic solutions to practicing positive health behaviors. She played a lead role in Go Girls! a special Pepfar funded initiative designed to reduce girls’ vulnerability to HIV and AIDS. |
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Jeannette D. Gurung, Executive Director, WOCAN Jeannette has a MSc Forestry from the University of Washington, and PhD in Gender and Development from the University of East Anglia (UK). She has expertise in training/capacity building, gender and organizational analysis, policy advocacy and network building, and has published numerous articles and books. She served as Gender Expert of the Program Advisory Committee of the CGIAR Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, and is a member of The Forest Dialogue Steering Committee. Jeannette is a forester and gender expert whose career has focused on leading organizational change for gender equality within agriculture and natural resource management organizations. She is founder and ED of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. WOCAN engages in advocacy and capacity building for women’s leadership through an innovative approach of partnering women farmers with professionals, and building the support of men in the process. |
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Kevin Kamp joins the AAS Program in the WorldFish office, Bangladesh from CARE where he was the Director of Agriculture with strategic and programmatic oversight of their global programs in agriculture, with specific focus on integrating sustainable intensification of agriculture efforts with CARE’s extensive market engagement capacity, climate change programming and sustainable livelihoods strategies more broadly. Kevin has been working on agrobiodiversity, sustainable agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture and integrated pest management issues for the FAO, Danida, CARE and SDC in China, South and SE Asia for the past 20 years. Kevin will lead the roll out of the program in Bangladesh. |
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Kyoko Kusakabe is Associate Professor at Gender and Development Studies, School of Environment, Resources, and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Her research interest is in gender issues in mobility/migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion and worked on effect of regional economic integration on women’s work and employment. In this connection, she has been studying cross-border fish trade, and women’s involvement in the production and marketing of fish in Cambodia. She has worked as gender experts for various organizations/projects and currently a member of the Program Oversight Panel for the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. |
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Lesley Ellarby is facilitating the workshop. She has been working as an organisational consultant and executive coach for over 15 years, to INGOs, Multi-national corporations, UN agencies, and members of the World Bank Group. Her work is underpinned by a belief in the energy that comes from clear strategy and the critical importance of relationships as they key fabric of organisational success. She draws on a range of theoretical models around individual and group development, as well as a deep experience of shaping and facilitating complex strategic and challenging discussions. She believes strongly in the potential of the consultancy and coaching relationship to continually create new insights and unlock future success. Her expertise lies in leadership development, strategy development, organisational change and alignment, group facilitation and executive coaching. |
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Maripaz Perez is a Resource Economist with 30 years professional and academic experience in Philippine government service. Prior to joining WorldFish she served as the Undersecretary for Regional Operations of the Department of Science and Technology supervising the Department’s technology transfer and commercialization program entitled “Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program”. This allowed her to work directly with SMEs and inventors that shaped her way of thinking on development challenges and efforts in a developing country. Maripaz will lead the roll out of the Program in the Philippines. |
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Miranda Morgan is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow (Gender Specialist) at WorldFish. She recently obtained her PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester (UK), where her research was funded by the Brooks World Poverty Institute and the Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme. Her PhD research was based on a case study of oil palm expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia and attempted to shed light on how gender relations shape, and are shaped by, all protest around large-scale land acquisitions. She holds a MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy (University of Oxford, UK) and a BA Honours in Political Studies and Development Studies (Queen’s University, Canada). Her professional experience include stints at ODI (UK), Ofgem (UK), LEAD International (UK) and the Democratic Dialogue Project (UNDP Guatemala). |
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Nireka Weeratunge is a socio-cultural anthropologist, with over 20 years of research in the interface of environment, development and gender issues in the Asia-Pacific. Her work is on the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource use/management and micro/small enterprise, focusing on livelihood strategies in the context of poverty, vulnerability and wellbeing of rural households. Previously she was a senior scientist (Gender and Social Development) at WorldFish, Penang and Los Banos. She has worked as a consultant to several development agencies including ADB, IUCN, ILO, GTZ/BMZ and UNDP on the design and evaluation of a range of projects. |
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Nitya Rao is currently Professor of Gender and Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. She has close to 30 years experience as a field-level practitioner, trainer, researcher and teacher. She has worked and researched extensively in the field of gendered changes in land and agrarian relations, migration, livelihood and well-being, gendered identities and intra-household relations and equity issues in education policies and provisioning. Her book on the theme of land as a resource in the struggle over gendered identities entitled “Good women do not inherit Land": Politics of Land and Gender in India was published by Social Science Press and Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, in 2008. Apart from her engagement with research, Rao has extensively engaged with policy processes at both the global and local levels. She has participated in several Expert Group meetings organised by UN Women on the theme of ‘Rural Women’s Economic Security and Access to Productive Assets’ over the past three years. She is also at present co-chair of the Global Advisory Committee of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative. |
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Patrick Dugan is Leader of the AAS Program. He is also responsible for the development of the WorldFish scientific research strategy. From 1984, till he joined the Center in 2000, Dr. Dugan was attached to IUCN-The World Conservation Union. During that period he held various positions, the last being the Global Program Director based in Switzerland. Over the course of his career he has worked extensively in Africa, Asia and Latin America at local, national and regional levels. Dr. Dugan has a Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Zoology. |
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Patti Kristjanson is an agricultural economist and research leader of a global program called "Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security" (CCAFS – www.ccafs.cgiar.org), based at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi. CCAFS is a major collaborative endeavour between the international agricultural (CGIAR) and global environmental change (ESSP) research communities, and their respective partners. Her expertise includes poverty and livelihood analyses, impact assessment, agricultural system analyses and innovative research approaches for linking knowledge with action. She has 25 years of experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams from international and national agricultural research centres, in collaboration with universities, donors, private and public sectors across Africa and Asia. |
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Paula Kantor is a senior gender scientist at WorldFish. She is a socio-economist with expertise in gender and economic development, rural and urban vulnerability and informal labor markets. Prior to joining the Center, Paula was a senior gender and rural development specialist at ICRW; and director and manager of the gender and livelihoods research portfolios at the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) in Kabul. She started her post-PhD career teaching and doing research on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (US), and then at the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia (UK). |
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Ranjitha Puskur is an agricultural socio-economist leading the Gender research theme at WorldFish and in CRP AAS. She has extensive experience working in Africa and Asia on a broad range of research for development projects. She has previously worked for IWMI and ILRI. Her research focuses on understanding processes that can effectively translate research outputs into developmental outcomes which are pro‐poor and prowomen, especially in the context of agricultural production and commodity systems and/or value chains. Her areas of interest include gender, innovation, research for development and service delivery systems. |
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Rekha Mehra is Director of Economic Development at ICRW, where she leads work on gender and agriculture, assets and property rights, enterprise development, and financial services. She has worked on gender and development issues for over 25 years. She has written extensively on gender and development and brings extensive experience in technical assistance on the design, implementation and evaluation of gender in development programs. She is a member of the advisory committee of AGree, a food and agriculture policy group, and has served on a gender, agriculture and rural development task force and committees at the World Bank; as Chair of the Board of the USAID-funded BASIS-CRSP; and as a member of the Executive Committee of the System-wide Initiative on Water Management of the CGIAR. |
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Rieky Stuart is currently a consultant in international development, and has evaluated gender equality in a number of international agencies, as well as developing gender equality strategies and programming. She has worked in international development since the late 1960s. She has worked and lived in Africa and Asia and Canada as a teacher, development programmer, consultant and manager. She was Executive Director of Oxfam Canada from 1999 to 2005. She previously served as Deputy Director for the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, and also taught at St. Francis Xavier University’s Coady International Institute. She is currently a senior associate of Gender at Work and has participated in numerous voluntary sector boards. |
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Rosemary Vargas-Lundius: Born in the Dominican Republic, holds a Ph.D. in development economics from Lund University, Sweden and has carried out research on rural poverty and unemployment, gender and migration. She is a staff member of the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome, where she has worked as a Country Program Manager in the Latin America and the Caribbean division and is presently a Senior Researcher in the Strategy and Knowledge Management Department of IFAD. She initiated the Gender Mainstreaming in Rural Development Program as well as the IFAD Financing Facility for Remittances. Most recently, she initiated a program to promote decent employment for rural youth. Prior to joining IFAD, Ms Vargas-Lundius worked for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in New York, Vietnam and Guatemala. |
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Washington DC. She received her MSc and PhD degrees in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Much of her work has been interdisciplinary research on water policy, local organizations, property rights, gender analysis, and the impact of agricultural research on poverty. She has conducted field work in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Uganda. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications, including the forthcoming volume Gender in Agriculture and Food Security: Closing the Knowledge Gap. |
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Sandra L. Russo is Director of Program Development in the University of Florida’s International Center. An agronomist by training, she has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1981. She is co-principal investigator on two National Science Foundation projects supporting graduate student education, two USAID higher education partnerships in southern Africa, and a global CRP (Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security). Her recent work focuses primarily in Africa and the Middle East on environment and natural resource management topics including community based natural resources management, water, climate change, food security, and gender issues. |
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Shanny Campbell is a Social Development Specialist, Environment Natural Resources and Agriculture Division, ADB. Shanny holds a Master of Development degree and has 18 years experience in the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and management of development projects in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Japan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Tajikistan and Vietnam. Her inputs as Gender, Social Development and Safeguards (land acquisition and indigenous peoples development) specialist relate to projects in the Engineering (Power, Transport, Urban and Water), Industrial, Education, Small Business/Enterprise, Agriculture and Finance sectors. This includes country level gender assessments, portfolio gender mainstreaming and gender action planning. |
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Steve Hall was appointed Director General of WorldFish in March 2004. He was previously Director of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and was a member of Prime Minister’s Steering Committee on Mapping Australia’s Innovation System from 2003 until 2004. He also served as Director of Lincoln Marine Science Center, Australia, worked in Flinders University as Professor of Marine Biology, and as Section Head (Fish Biology) in the Scottish Office Agriculture Environment and Fisheries Dept, Marine Lab Aberdeen, UK. He has published extensively in the scientific and development literature on tropical fisheries and aquaculture. Dr. Hall has a Ph.D. in Marine Ecology and a B.Sc. in Marine Biology and Biochemistry. He is also a Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
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Sylvia Cabus is the gender advisor for the Bureau of Food Security at USAID and for the Feed the Future Initiative. She worked for Catholic Relief Services in Kenya, Morocco, Mali, and Burkina Faso. In the U.S., Sylvia worked as a program officer with Heifer International, Handicap International, and USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. Before joining USAID, Sylvia was a gender analyst with DevTech Systems, an international development consulting firm. She received a BA with Honors in History from U.C. Berkeley and an MA in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. |
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Tabeth Matiza Chiuta is WorldFish Regional Director for Africa. Prior to joining WorldFish, she worked briefly as the Managing Director for WATENN Consulting. Tabeth worked for IUCN for 18 years where she held various portfolios, including the establishment of GWP Southern Africa. She is a member of the GWP Senior Advisors and the 2012 World Water Week Scientific Programme Committee. Tabeth will lead the roll out of the program in Zambia. |
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Valerie Rhoe joined Catholic Relief Services' Agriculture and Environment Sector of the Program Quality Support Division in July 2012. As a Senior Technical Advisor, she provides support in the design and implementation of high quality programs in agriculture with emphasis on (i) gender, (ii) nutrition, and (iii) knowledge management. Prior to joining CRS, Valerie held several positions at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) including Senior Program Manager for the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), Program Coordinator of IFPRI's Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP) and Research Analyst within its Learning and Capacity Strengthening Program. While at IFPRI, Valerie helped design and implement the NSSP, conducted research, led communication and capacity strengthening activities, and engaged partners in policy dialogue. She has worked extensively with various universities, ministries, donors, farmer associations and research institutions in developing and developed countries. Valerie has co-authored a number of journal articles, book chapters, working papers, training manuals, and briefs. She earned her MA in Economics from University of Notre Dame and her BA in Economics and Sociology from Moravian College. Valerie can be reached at valerie.rhoe@crs.org. |
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