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Personal data

Year of Birth	TAA Member No	Title	Forenames:	Surname:
1958	335	Dr	Hugh John	GIBBON

Record of posts and assignments

Year	Job Title	Organisation	Country	Responsibilities
2006 - ongoing	Program Development Manager	FARM-Africa	International	Leading a team of five technical specialists working to support forestry, livestock and smallholder agriculture programmes in 6 East / Southern African countries
2005	Technical Specialist	DFS for KfW Germany	India	Feasibility study on community forestry and tribal livelihoods for three States in India
2005	Management Consultant	Regional Community Forestry Training Centre	Thailand	Developing and supporting a new country programme strategy and operational guidelines in SE Asia
2004 2004	Expert Evaluator Trainer/ Study Tour Leader	European Commission Joint Tanzanian/Zambian Forestry Programmes	Global Kenya + Tanzania	Assessment of 16 different Forest/Environment project proposals submitted for EU funding. Organising and leading a training for 20 NR professionals with 8 project visits and discussions.
2003/4/5	Manager (voluntary)	Interchristian evangelical fellowships mission, Europe	Kenya + Europe	Charitable work in rural development in western Kenya, especially with very disadvantaged households.
2003/4	Joint Forest Management Consultant	Storaenso/Indufor. Forest Department, Lusaka	Zambia	Support to both policy and practical JFM implementation in three provinces. Field level training and workshop support. Inputs into national guidelines.
2003	Team Leader	EU Biodiversity Conservation Programme	Kenya	Evaluation of 19 projects, stakeholders presentation workshop and meetings
2003/4/5	Chief Tech Adviser	Commonwealth Secretariat for Forest Dept, Nairobi	Kenya	Second phase input. Development of national guidelines and three pilot projects based on small scale enterprise
2002	Team Leader, Programme Evaluation	EU Food Security Unit, Somalia	Somalia/ Somaliland	Responsible for evaluating 14 separate projects under a programme of work which began in 1996.
2002	Mid term evaluation consultant	Christian Outreach Relief & Development (CORD)	Mozambique	Assessment of project impact, review of project methodologies, revision of logframe and community level monitoring indicators
2001/2	Participatory Forest Management Adviser	Commonwealth Secretariat for Forest Department, Nairobi	Kenya	Project preparation study to assess the current position and future potential of collaborative forest management in Kenya.
2001	Management Consultant	FAO Food Security Assessment Unit for Somalia	Kenya	Support to strengthen project objectives, internal communication systems and partnership agreements.
2000-01	Training Consultant	BirdLife International with the Arabuko Sokoke Forest Management Team	Kenya	Design & facilitation of two intensive trainings in participatory forest management for; management staff, frontline staff & village representatives.
2001	Keynote Presenter	National Interactive Dialogue on Agric. Development	Java, Indonesia	Preparation of seven case studies from around the globe on agricultural reform & sustainable livelihoods.
1994-99	Team Leader (East)	Nepal/UK Community Forestry Programme	Nepal	Leading & managing area teams. Innovative & diverse rural development programme supporting village level user groups, capacity enhancement, organisational system development, individual empowerment.

Skills, expertise and qualifications


Principal Discipline	Rural Development
Subsidiary fields	Forestry-Community, Smallholder Agriculture, Participatory Development, Project Management, Rural Development, Land Evaluations & Land Use Planning, Training/ Education, Monitoring & Evaluation, Institutional/ Organisational Development
Higher education	BA (Hons), Geography, Sussex, UK (1980); MA Rural Social Dev., Reading, UK (1984) PhD Geography & Planning, Nottingham, UK (1987); Agric. Economics Cert. COYE (1992) PG Certificate in Management, University of Greenwich, 2002
Countries worked in	Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Somalia, S. Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, UK, Zambia
Languages	Nepali, Swahili
Webpage	http://www.thenrgroup.net
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