TREE AID Advisers
TREE AID’s project staff, who provide technical advice and feedback to our partners, are backed by our UK based Programme Policy Group (PPG) as well as our In-Country local advisers who provide wider expertise, strategic and policy guidance and quality assurance.
The Programme Policy Group makes recommendations to the Trustees on programme policy and strategy. Through this, TREE AID has access to some of the most senior overseas forestry expertise in the UK, who provide specialist advice to projects throughout their duration.
PPG Members
Zewge Teklehaimanot
Dr Zewge Teklehaimanot is a lecturer in agroforestry at the University of Wales. He has extensive field experience in, inter alia, forestry research and community forestry and has worked as Head of the Forestry Department at the Ministry of Agriculture in his native Ethiopia.
Peter Wood
Dr Peter Wood is a botanist and forester with wide experience of tropical forestry. He lived in East Africa for 17 years and has carried out many consultancies in Africa, India and elsewhere for such organisations as DFID/ODA, the World Bank and FAO. Formerly a senior ODA adviser he has also worked at ICRAF and taught at Oxford University. He specialises in project design, farm forestry, agroforestry, training and research.
Paul Anticoni
Paul Anticoni is currently Chief Executive of World Jewish Relief and previously worked with the British Red Cross in London for over 10 years, moving from management of East Africa operations to Head of the International Aid Department, where he was responsible for the development and management of the institutional strategic partnership between the Red Cross and DfiD. Paul trained as an agriculturalist and forester and has previously worked overseas in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Cambodia for 6 years. Hehas worked in various positions within Concern Worldwide and Marie Stopes International where he was based in London and Sarajevo. Paul became a TREE AID trustee in September 2003.
Katherine Homewood
Prof Katherine Homewood is Head of the Anthropology Department at University College London. She convenes the Human Ecology Research Group, which integrates natural and social sciences approaches to interactions of environment and development with health and welfare, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Trained as a zoologist, she specialised in forest primate ecology and behaviour and later the livelihoods of pastoralists in East Africa. She has also worked at Dar Es Salaam University.
Duncan Macqueen
Duncan Macqueen is currently a Senior Forestry Researcher for the International Institute for Environment and Development. His main research interests include forest business and equitable stewardship of the multiple values of forests especially through marginalised groups. He was previously deputy manager of the Forestry Research Programme at the UK Government’s Department for International Development.
Kate Schreckenberg
Dr Kate Schreckenberg is a lecturer in environmental sciences at the University of Southampton and coordinator of the University’s Centre for Underutilised Crops. She previously worked in the forestry group of the Overseas Development Institute and in UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Programme. A specialist in non-timber forest products and community forestry, her current research focuses on equitable sharing of benefits from natural resource management.
David Brown
Dr. David Brown is a Senior Research Associate of the ODI, where he was, until 2009, a Research Fellow and leader of its Climate Change, Environment and Forests programme. He specialises in natural resource governance and forest policy. He was previously a lecturer in development studies (in the UK and West Africa), and a regional representative for OXFAM, based in Senegal. A political sociologist, he has worked extensively in the tropics (humid, drylands and transitional zones), particularly in West and West-Central Africa. He currently holds an Emeritus Fellowship of the Leverhulme Trust to support research in eastern Liberia.
Local advisers
In West Africa, TREE AID also benefits from a panel of multi-disciplinary In-Country local advisers with extensive experience of the project areas and the wider context in which the projects operate. The panel of local advisers includes experts with first hand knowledge of each of the countries in which Tree Aid currently operates in West Africa.
Burkina Faso:
Sylvestre Ouedraogo (Acting West Africa Programme Coordinator)
Ex-Co-ordinator of Burkina Faso’s UNDP Environment Programme, Sylvestre is Senior Forester with more than 25 years experience. He has been Director of various forestry departments and held consultancies for various organisation including the World Bank, FAO, UICN, IIED, CILSS . Has also taught at the Forestry department of the University of Ouagadougou and from 1980 to 1982 was offered the post of Minister of the Environment.
Rosalie Congo
Currently Burkina Faso World Environment Fund Coordinator Rosalie Congo’s background includes agricultural training and extension work. She has many years experience in rural development and in 1993 was appointed as Coordinator of the UNDP Programme/ Africa Network 2000.
Ghana:
David Millar
Dr David Millar has a background in forestry, agriculture and sociology and has worked as Coordinator of the Savannah Natural Resource Management Programme in Ghana. He has taught at the University of Development Studies and also worked on a number of consultancies for various organisations in Ghana.
Adam Abu
Now retired Adam Abu has worked as a senior forester and as Director of several forestry departments in Ghana.
