East Africa

Tanzania
Ms. Euster Kibona
Environment Protection Management Services (EPMS)
Expertise: Participation, community assessment, sustainable development, climate change impacts, vulnerability, adaptation and mainstreaming
Email: epms@bol.co.tz

Education: Bachelors degree in Environmental Sciences and Management from Sokoine University of Agriculture with areas of specialization on Environment Impact Assessment, Risk Assessment, Ecological and Biodiversity Management, Pesticides Management and all related Environment Management activities.

Professional experience: Ms. Euster Kibona work with Environment Protection Management Services (EPMS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is a senior environmental programme officer. Her areas of specialization are activities on participatory methods of project development and implementation, community assessment and public education with local NGOs and CBOs, EIA, researches and development projects on the global environmental change and sustainable development issues with a special focus on climate change impacts, vulnerability, adaptation and mainstreaming issues. As one of the three members from NGOs on the NAPA preparation National team she has an ability to work with a diverse range of interested stakeholders such as: government officials, communities, private sector. She has excellent communication skills in English and Kiswahili.

Uganda
Ms. Prossy Nalugya
Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations (DENIVA)
Expertise: Management, monitoring and evaluation, Results-Based Management (RBM), fundraising
Email: pna@deniva.or.ug

Education: Masters Degree in Public Administration and Management and Bachelor of Food Science and Technology from Makerere University Kampala

Professional experience: Currently Program Coordinator for Poverty, Trade and Economic Growth, Ms. Nalugya has previous experience in monitoring and evaluation, nutrition and project management for “Feed the Children” in Uganda. Ms. Nalugya speaks five languages.

Sudan
Ms. Sumaya Zakie ldeen
Sudanese Environment Conservation Society (SECS)
Expertise: Climate Change, genetic resources and remote sensing
Email: zakields@yahoo.com


Education: PhD degree in plants Eco-physiology 
Professional Experience: Sumaya Zaki Eldeen has extensive research experience on climate change, genetic resources and remote sensing. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Khartoum and an executive committee member of the Sudanese Environment Conservation Society (SECS).

Previous Fellows:

Victor A Orindi
IDRC, Kenya
Expertise: Energy and water security, capacity building and adaptation to climate Change

Email: vorindi@idrc.or.ke

Mr. Twinomugisha Ben Busizori
Expertise: Indigenous knowledge, natural resource management and community mobilization, and pro-poor policy advocacy
Email: twinomugishaben@yahoo.co.uk
Education: Bachelors Degree of Development Studies

 

Kenya
Cynthia Awuor
African Centre for Technology Studies
Expertise: Environmental policy, Climate Change adaptation, Natural Resource Management, Sustainable development, environmental education and wildlife management
Email: cynthia_awuor@yahoo.com