ction: @bbclysedoucet Thank you for your support Lyse and happy that you've enjoyed the view and the gathering :-) Original Tweet 1 day 23 hours ago
Printer-friendly version
Send to friend
The BBC World Service Trust is the BBC's international charity. It uses the creative power of media to reduce poverty and promote human rights.
The British Council is the UK's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. As well as education, it runs programmes in the arts, science, sport, governance and English language.
International advisory network
The BBC World Service Trust and the British Council have set up an advisory network for the Africa Talks Climate research.
An overarching advisory group for the Africa Talks Climate initiative is made up of climate change experts such as Kit Vaughan of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Susanne Moser of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Institute for the Study of Society and Environment in Boulder, Colorado.
Each individual country also has its own advisory group of climate change experts from local environmental and climate change organisations, donor organisations, research and academic institutions and other relevant groups within the country.
The advisory network supports Africa Talks Climate by providing technical knowledge on climate change, and contextual, country-specific information. It also provides feedback on the research approach, methodology and findings.
Cyrille Adebu is the Director and Coordinator of Organisation Concertée des Ecologiestes et Amis de la Nature (OCEAN). He is also a member of the NGO Accra Caucus, and the working group for Reducing Carbon Emissions through Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Since 2008 he has represented Congolese civil society as an observer of the meetings and conferences of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is also an official member of the delegation to COP15.
André Aquino is Coordinator for Africa in the Carbon Finance Unit at the World Bank.
Simon Counsell has been Director of the Rainforest Foundation UK since 1996. Previously he was Rainforest Campaigner at Friends of the Earth (FOE) for 10 years. Simon has an MSc in tropical forestry and land-use, and has written extensively on tropical forest conservation policy and its links to local peoples’ rights.
Michelle Medeiros is the International Africa Forest Coordinator for Greenpeace in DR Congo. Since 2002 she has been working on forest issues with a focus on the Congo basin and conflict timbre in West and Central Africa. Michelle has also worked as the Managing Director of ForestEthics, and as an International Financial Institutions Campaigner for the US office of FOE.
Roger Muchuba is a human rights lawyer specialising in environment and community rights. He is a consultant at the Institute for Development, the Environment and Natural Resources and the Natural Resources Network. He is also the national coordinator of the Working Group on Climate Change and REDD for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Aklilu Amsalu is Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at Addis Ababa University. He has worked extensively on natural resources management and environmental change, particularly on climate change issues, impacts and local adaptation mechanisms.
Mogus Bekele is a Programme Coordinator at CORDAID.
Mahlet Eyassu is a Project Officer and coordinator at Forum for Environment, an environmental advocacy NGO which also acts as the secretariat for the Ethiopian Civil Society Network on Climate Change. She holds a First Class degree in Sociology and Social Administration and an MA in Environment and Development from Addis Ababa University.
Temesgen Tadesse Deressa is a Research Fellow with the African Climate Change Research Fellowship.
Tezera Getahun is the Executive Director of the Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia, a local umbrella NGO working with pastoralists and partners to advance the right of Ethiopian pastoralists. It represents the collective voice of its member CSOs/NGOs.
John Graham is a Senior Policy Adviser at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Malene Haakansson is Documentation Officer at Dan Church Aid, a Danish faith-based and ecumenical, non-missionary organisation working with churches and non-religious civil organisations across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Asia to deliver aid. Dan Church Aid isone of the founders of the Ethiopian Civil Society Network on Climate Change.
Amdissa Teshome is a Chief Consultant at A-Z Consult, a private consulting firm based in Addis Ababa, primarily engaged in research and capacity building. Assignments over the past 10 years have included disaster management, food security, and climate change. A-Z Consult also serves as focal point for Future Agricultures Consortium in Ethiopia.
Angie Dazé works for CARE International.
Kees van der Geest is a Researcher and Junior Lecturer at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies. He specialises in environmental geography of developing countries and is currently doing PhD research on the economic and environmental consequences of rural migration in Ghana. His personal website is here.
Monica Ebele Idinoba works in Burkina Faso as the West African Project Coordinator for the Centre for International Forestry Research. She is currently involved in a European Commission funded project on Tropical Forest and Climate Change Adaptation. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Gilbert Kwapong works at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana.
Cynthia Awuor works for CARE International Kenya as the Regional Climate Change Focal Point for Eastern and Central Africa. She is engaged in capacity building and development of various tools for effective integration of climate change adaptation into projects and programmes. Cynthia holds an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Kenyatta University.
Christopher Gakahu is the Assistant Resident Representative Sustainability (Energy and Environment) at the United Nations Development Programme.
Mike Harrison is the Deputy Head of the Kenya and Somalia Programmes for the UK Department for International Development (DfID).
Marko Lesukat is Programme Coordinator for the Regional Resilience Enhancement Against Drought at CARE International.
Vivianne Ngugi is the Outreach and Communications Officer in the regional office for Eastern and Southern Africa at International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Her main focus is to increase awareness about IDRC, bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers, and enhance relationships with research partners. She holds a BA in International Relations from Wesleyan University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Diplomacy and International Studies from the University of Nairobi.
Elvin Nyukuri is a Research Fellow at the Nairobi-based African Centre for Technology Studies, an intergovernmental organization focusing on sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently working on community based adaptation to climate change in Africa.
Victor Orindi is a Research Officer for the International Development Research Centre on the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa programme. From 2004 – 2006 he was the CLACC Regional Fellow for East Africa. Victor has researched and written widely on climate change adaptation, he also holds a BA and MA in Environmental Science from Kenyatta University.
Nigeria acted as the pilot study for the Africa Talks Climate project and as such, its research methodology was slightly different than the other nine countries. However, extensive desk research and a range of interviews with climate change stakeholders informed issue and location selection.
Jörg Michael Baur runs the Promotion of Rural Electrification and Sustainable Supply of Biomass Energy project in Senegal.
Birima Fall is the Communications Director for World Wildlife Fund’s West African Marine programme and also lectures on Environmental Communications at the University of Dakar’s School of Journalism. Previously Birima worked for One World International, UNESCO, and Sud FM.
Alioune Badara Kaéré is a Research Officer on the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa programme for IDRC.
Cheikh Mbow teaches at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Dakar University.
Ole Mertze is a professor at the University of Copenhagen and has worked extensively on the climate change issue in the Sahel zone.
Kevin J. Mullally is the Mission Director for USAID Senegal. Previously he lived and worked in Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, as well as Bangladesh and Haiti. He has been trained in forestry and soil conservation and has an MA in International Management Studies.
Emma Archer is a Principal Researcher in Climate Change, Natural Resources and the Environment at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa. Previously she lectured in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, and was a senior researcher at the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town.
Helena McLeod is a Regional Trade and Integration Advisor for South Africa at DfID.
Noureldin Ahmed Abdalla is the Sudan Advisor on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change for Practical Action, an international NGO aimed at improving the livelihoods of poor communities through building the capacity of small-scale producers and their institutions. He has extensive experience working on climate change adaptation projects across Africa.
Sumaya Zaki Eldin is a professor at the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Khartoum. She was a central contributor to Sudan’s National Adaptation Program of Action on climate change.
Yagoub Abdalla Mohamed is chairman of the Environmentalists Society, a Sudanese NGO that aims to raise environmental awareness, design and implement locally run environmentally sustainable development projects, and carry out research to improve understanding of the causes of environmental problems. He is a former director of the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Khartoum, and holds a PhD in Geography from Liverpool University.
Balgis Osman-Elasha is Senior Researcher in the Climate Change Unit of the Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources. She is a leading author for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and on Sudan’s National Adaptation Program of Action. She was awarded the 2008 Champions of the Earth Award by the UN Environment Programme.
Charles Ehrhart is currently coordinating CARE International’s global response to climate change. He leads a secretariat providing strategic direction and technical support to operations in more than 66 of the world’s poorest countries. He has spent 16 years working with civil society organisations, the UN and governments of Tanzania and Uganda to end extreme poverty. Charles has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.
Euster Kibona is a Programme Officer at Environmental Protection Management Services in Tanzania and also a fellow of the Capacity strengthening of civil society in Least developed countries on Adaptation to Climate Change programme. She holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and Management Services from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro.
Amos Majule is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Resources Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, where he also teaches a class on Climate Change Variability and Adaptations. He is currently on the National Technical Advisory Committee for the Trans-boundary Agro-ecosystem Management Project of the Lower Kagera River Basin.
Steven Mwakifwamba is a National Coordinator at the Centre for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology in Tanzania.
Linda Stephen is presently completing a PhD on Famine Early Warning and Information Systems in Ethiopia. She has recently been a Research Assistant at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Her research interests are to explore and test various methods for vulnerability analyses, with a specific focus on food insecurity. A recent project has been to establish a vulnerability profile of food insecure households and to understand people’s adaptation to vulnerability and climate change.
Adrian Stone is a Sustainable Growth Team Leader for DfID Tanzania.
Pius Yanda is a Research Professor and Director at the Institute of Resources Assessment at the University of Dar es Salaam. He holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Stockholm.
Savio Carvalho is the Southern Climate Change Campaign Adviser for Oxfam International. He supports and advises 14 countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa on the Oxfam Climate Change Campaign, focusing on strategy development, capital level lobby, and capacity enhancement. He is the former Country Director of Oxfam GB in Uganda.
Nick Hepworth is at LTS International.
Richard Kimbowa works at Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development.
Alex Muhweezi works at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Christine Nantongo is at the Environmental Alert.
Back to top