Addressing the complexity of today’s challenges for nature, economy and security requires strategy, evidence and innovation.
Kilimanyika is a management and advisory firm operating at the nexus of biodiversity and resource management, finance, and human security. We recognise that working across diverse stakeholders, sectors and geographies is key to progress for nature, people and economies. We advise and deliver for governments and businesses, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and philanthropic organisations.
About Kilimanyika
Kilimanyika is a UK-registered management and advisory firm providing strategic, policy and operational advisory services and delivering discrete research and evaluations to governments, business and development partners working at the intersection of biodiversity and resource management, finance, and human security.
The firm is led by two principals, each with more than 25 years’ experience, together spanning the full breadth of the nexus between nature and human security. Supported by a team of associates, we work for governments, multilateral agencies, development partners and business across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Our service lines include:
- Conservation finance: blended finance, trust funds and nature-positive investment
- Programme design and securing GEF and development partner finance
- Strategy, evaluation and learning
- Conflict, political economy and resource-governance analysis
- WPS strategy, and violence prevention and response
- Climate-security advisory
- Nature-positive and biodiversity policy, and TNFD advisory
- Inclusive, conflict-sensitive delivery across the nexus of nature and security
Leadership
Paul Harrison
Three decades mobilising conservation finance and delivering landscape-scale conservation across 37 countries and five continents. Expertise spanning nature-positive and blended finance, trust fund design, biodiversity policy, and the delivery of major GEF and development partner programmes. Former UNDP Global Lead on Wildlife Enforcement and head of its delegation at CITES CoP17, leading negotiations from community meetings under mango trees in rural Tanzania to briefing heads of state on wildlife crime in New York.
Executive MBA with Distinction (Warwick) · MSc & BA Hons (SOAS) · FRGS · Fluent Swahili, working French
Michelle Spearing
More than 25 years leading programme design and delivery, research and evaluation, and advisory work for FCDO, UNDP, DFAT, UN Women and UNEP across fragile and conflict-affected states. Expertise spanning inclusive and conflict-sensitive governance, locally-led action, conflict prevention and stabilisation, WPS strategy, and climate-security. A published researcher on peacebuilding and statebuilding, CRSV, and climate-security, from Somalia and South Sudan to Papua New Guinea and the Great Lakes region.
MA Peace Studies (Lancaster) · MA Theology (Oxford) · PG Diploma Social Research (Ulster) · Working French
Our Practice Areas
Kilimanyika operates across two complementary pillars, and in the space where they intersect.
Nature & Finance
Mobilising conservation finance, from blended finance and trust funds to nature-positive investment, alongside biodiversity policy, TNFD advisory and landscape-scale conservation across five continents.
Peace, Security & Governance
Inclusive, conflict-sensitive governance; conflict prevention, WPS strategy and violence prevention; climate-security; and locally-led action in fragile and conflict-affected states.
Securing Nature
The intersection: conflict-sensitive conservation design, resource governance in fragile states, climate-security, nature and landscape resilience, inclusive livelihoods, and environmental justice.
How We Work
We work end to end: from strategy and design through to delivery, finance and evaluation. Clients bring us the mandates that demand both technical depth and the credibility that comes from decades of getting things done in complex environments.
- Designing and securing GEF and development partner finance
- Conflict and political economy analysis
- Protected-area financing and trust funds
- Violence prevention and response, governance and WPS programmes
- Blended and nature-positive finance, and TNFD advisory
- Strategy, portfolio and programme evaluation
- Climate-security assessments
- Transboundary landscape strategy
- Programme delivery and results measurement
Trusted by
Advisory and delivery at the nexus of nature, finance and human security.
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