Dorothy A . Amwata
Dr. Dorothy A. Amwata (B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD, University of Nairobi, Kenya)
Dr. Amwata has eleven years work experience in natural resources and environmental management. She holds a PhD Degree in Range Management (Socio-Ecology option). Her PhD thesis was on the ‘influence of climate variability and change on land-use and livelihoods in southern Rangelands of Kenya’. She is currently a Lecturer and Chairman Department of Range and Wildlife Sciences, South Eastern Kenya University. Dr Amwata has a wide experience in working on climate change adaptation and mitigation across different levels namely local, national, regional and international levels. Currently she providing technical backstopping to AU/NEPAD Agriculture Climate Change Framework, African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) Comprehensive Framework on Climate Change, SADC Climate change Framework and Programme and Stockholm Environment Institute Africa and Africa climate change and desertification programmes. She was also a Research for Development Programme Officer, Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) based in Tunisia, from April 2007-August 2010. At OSS, she worked on multilateral environmental agreements; conservation of biodiversity, mitigation of the impacts of desertification and climate change within sub-Saharan Africa. Her main focus was on bridging the gap between research and policy and creating of synergy on the Multilateral Environmental Agreements and integrating them into national, regional and international frameworks such as poverty reduction, Millennium Development Goals, among others. She has also worked for Kenya Wildlife Service for five years, where she gained great experience in research with respect to ecosystem dynamics, wildlife conservation management, livelihoods and food security, natural resource management, and resource use and conflicts management .
Supervisors: Prof Dickson M. Nyariki, Prof Nashon Musimba, and Dr Melanie Requier Desjardin
Dr. Amwata has eleven years work experience in natural resources and environmental management. She holds a PhD Degree in Range Management (Socio-Ecology option). Her PhD thesis was on the ‘influence of climate variability and change on land-use and livelihoods in southern Rangelands of Kenya’. She is currently a Lecturer and Chairman Department of Range and Wildlife Sciences, South Eastern Kenya University. Dr Amwata has a wide experience in working on climate change adaptation and mitigation across different levels namely local, national, regional and international levels. Currently she providing technical backstopping to AU/NEPAD Agriculture Climate Change Framework, African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) Comprehensive Framework on Climate Change, SADC Climate change Framework and Programme and Stockholm Environment Institute Africa and Africa climate change and desertification programmes. She was also a Research for Development Programme Officer, Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) based in Tunisia, from April 2007-August 2010. At OSS, she worked on multilateral environmental agreements; conservation of biodiversity, mitigation of the impacts of desertification and climate change within sub-Saharan Africa. Her main focus was on bridging the gap between research and policy and creating of synergy on the Multilateral Environmental Agreements and integrating them into national, regional and international frameworks such as poverty reduction, Millennium Development Goals, among others. She has also worked for Kenya Wildlife Service for five years, where she gained great experience in research with respect to ecosystem dynamics, wildlife conservation management, livelihoods and food security, natural resource management, and resource use and conflicts management .
Supervisors: Prof Dickson M. Nyariki, Prof Nashon Musimba, and Dr Melanie Requier Desjardin
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