Roster of Consultants
The approach to staffing follows from Supras’ Organization and Strategy. Being a small company, and with interests, capabilities and expertise in several areas and geographic locations, the standard operating procedure is to hire in people for specific assignments. Increasingly relevant expertise is available in developing countries and countries in transition, and Supras draws upon a global network of contacts and collaborators for this purpose. This network and its approach to staffing is partly a result of the close collaboration with the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net), and partly as developed by Supras.
First, Supras is involved in managing CBNRM Net through the affiliated non-profit CBNRM Networking. CBNRM Net is a global community of practice of more than 500 experts experts in various fields that live and work in around 100 developing countries and countries in transition.
Second, Supras maintains a the present Roster of consultants. Members have, as a rule, worked for Supras or else have a personal relationship with the firm, and are included on account of their expertise, performance, approach to working in teams, level of professionality and competence. They are as a rule located in as well as being nationals of developing countries and countries in transition. There are some important reasons for investing in and using local consultants in this way: (1) Capacity building, that is, they contribute to building local capacity, (2) The need to secure more permanent ties with relevant local expertise, and (3) Because of the logistics following from Supras being based in Norway while most activities are located in developing countries and countries in transition. To inquire about or contact them, go to this page.
- Laura Maria Alayón
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Focus (topics): Common pool resources management, Ecology, Ethnographic approach, Fisheries, Human ecology, Institutional analysis, Natural resources management, Regulatory compliance in fisheries, Resource economics, Rural development.
Focus (geographic): Colombia.
Description: Laura is a creative and interdisciplinary professional always looking for better ways to integrate her academic skills with her practical experience. As a professional in ecology she is able to understand the structure and dynamic of ecosystems and contribute to solving and understanding environmental issues. As an economist and candidate for an MSc in Resource Economics she focuses her work on the study of the relationships between environmental policies and local realities in the use and management of natural resources. Moreover, she focuses on natural and socioeconomic incentives to make these relationships more efficient and sustainable. Over the last five years she has participated in many research projects with local communities that depend on extracting natural resources to make a living. The challenge has been to forecast how resources management will perform and find incentives for designing political and methodological proposals that contribute to real solutions in specific contexts. She has on two occasions collaborated with Lars on writing conference papers.
- Moussa Arimi
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Focus (topics): Land management.
Focus (geographic): Niger, Lake Chad Basin.
Description: Trained as a lawyer.
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- Cosmas K. Lambini
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Focus (topics): Local level organization building, Networking.
Focus (geographic): Ghana, West Africa.
Description: He graduated from the University for Development Studies in Ghana. He has worked with a number of organizations in Ghana as a development facilitator in rural communities throughout Northern Ghana. He has also worked with Actionaid Ghana’s Partnership Project with communities in the north-eastern corridor of Ghana. Cosmas also worked with Tropenbos International - Ghana where he conducted research on sustainable forest management in Ghana’s southern forest district. As General Secretary of Ghana United Nations Students and Youth Association he worked actively with many youth programmes, including youth and mediation and youth camps. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Cosmas Sustainable Development Project, a small community-based organization in Northern Ghana. Cosmas is presently studying for an Erasmus Mundus MSc in International Rural Development at the University of Cordoba, Spain and Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
- Mohammed El Mokhtar N’Diaye (aka Cherif)
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Focus (topics): Ecology, Forestry, Land management, Traditional knowledge.
Focus (geographic): Mali, Mauritania.
Description: Cherif has a degree in forestry. He has worked as a consultant for various GTZ projects in the southern part of Mauritania for a number of years, and on diverse tasks and responsibilities, including office/admin. management and fieldwork connected with natural resource management. He worked for the Technology Fosters Tradition Project (TFT) that Supras managed.
Activities: Projects.
- Bernadette Montanari
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Focus (topics): Community-based enterprises for poverty alleviation, Biodiversity, Sustainable development and natural resource management, Medicinal and aromatic plants, Ecosystem conservation, Ethnomedicine.
Focus (geographic): Morocco.
Description: Bernadette completed her MSc in Ethnobotany at the University of Kent in 2004, based on research in a Berber community of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Her work identified alternative ways to commercialize medicinal plants so that benefits can be returned to the local population. She is currently pursuing research work in the same community for a PhD in Ethnobiology with a focus on community-based enterprise, natural resource management and local actors' empowerment. Part of her work includes identification of the local resources that can be turned into financial assets for the local population, in recognition of the socio-economic and political implications for development. She is also working towards the conservation of traditional knowledge as communities integrate in market economies together with the commodification of plant products. Formerly trained as an herbalist, she has extensive knowledge in the botanical realm and has gained much experience in natural products designation and production through previous experience in business enterprises in the private sector.
- Sanaa E. Salloum
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Focus (topics): Reproductive health, MCH, Gender, Primary health care.
Topics (geographic): Egypt, Jordan, Middle East, Yemen.
Description: Sanaa is trained in Syria as a medical doctor. She lives in Yemen since 1989 (since 2003 partly in Egypt and partly in Yemen), and has a total of 18 years of experience working in the field of international development, in Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Areas of expertise include: reproductive health, gender and women’s projects, rights and needs, primary health care, and safe motherhood. Experience also in: capacity building, community mobilization, training workshops, and IECB (Information, Education and Change Behavior), designing health education materials on MNH and Nutrition, and evaluating micro-credit projects, training programs, NGOs, and marginalized peoples’ projects. In addition to the technical background as a physician, Sanaa has had a number of positions that required substantial management skill. Previous employers include: Govt. of Netherlands (Technical Advisor/MCH, RH, and gender expert, 7 years), Netherlands Embassy in Yemen (RH and gender program in Dhamar governorate, Yemen, aimed at improving health services, mainstreaming gender as well as advocating gender equality, 3 years), and UNICEF Yemen (rights-based development consultant, 4 months).
Activities: Projects.