| Paul Harrison is Director of Kilimanyika
as well as consultant and results-oriented
advisor on socio-economics, sustainable
livelihoods, markets, climate change adaption,
and land and natural resources management.
Through well developed research, strategic
analysis and project management skills he
focuses on developing livelihoods as well
as private and community based activities,
while promoting the linkage of environment,
development and business concerns.
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| Paul's experience includes:
programme design and implementaion, conducting
monitoring and evaluation, market and socio-economic
research, final evaluations, market feasibility
studies, rural appraisals and livelihood
assessments; facilitation and strategic
planning; developing indicators; environmental
management planning; managing people and
projects; overseeing transformation of land
use; resolving resource-based conflicts;
capacity building; communications and awareness
raising, and reporting. As a result of his
extensive time in the field, Paul is able
to link large issues such as climate change
to specific issues on the ground.
Building on an early career working in
his native Britain as a strategy consultant
and business analyst, Paul has over eleven
years experience living and working in Africa,
with country experience in Tanzania, Kenya,
Uganda, Mozambique, Namibia and Sudan. He
works in remote forest, arid and rangeland
areas, with rural, coastal and island communities,
and in East Africa's cities. He has
worked with both national and international
non governmental organisations as well as
in UK and African business environments,
with multilateral agencies and national
governments.
Paul's current and former clients include:
Coastal Oceans Research and Development
Centre (CORDIO),
The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP),
for which he regularly acts as a consultant
advisor, UNHCR
, CARE
International, Frankfurt Zoological
Society (FZS),
Royal Norwegian Embassy (RNE),
International Gorilla Conservation Program
(IGCP)
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),
East African Wild Life Society (EAWLS),
Fauna and Flora International (FFI),
World Conservation Union (IUCN),
African Parks Foundation African
Parks Foundation, BCW Holdings Ltd,
Save the Rhino International (SRI)
and the European Commission (EC).
Paul acts as Special Advisor to the Environment
Africa Trust and is on the Board of
the The
Mpingo Conservation Project.
Paul holds an MSc in Tourism, Environment
and Development and a BA in African Language
and Culture, both from the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London
(SOAS).
He is fluent in Swahili, having studied
it at SOAS, as well as at the Institute
of Swahili and Foreign Languages, Zanzibar,
and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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