Plan Vivo Technical Advisory Group
August 2015
The Plan Vivo Technical Advisory Group is composed of experts in community-based natural resource management, ecosystem services quantification and monitoring, and the development of rural livelihood programmes. The Group will provide elements of quality control in the application of Plan Vivo System, and contribute to the ongoing development of the Plan Vivo Standard through providing guidance and technical oversight.
Specific functions are to:
- Peer review technical documents from existing and potential Plan Vivo projects
- Provide recommendations on technical requirements in the Plan Vivo Standard and how they should be applied in practice
- Contribute to the development of tools and methodologies to support Plan Vivo projects
Members of the Group will be requested to participate in the peer review of technical project documents that correspond to their area of expertise, to attend annual meetingsto discuss issues and priorities, and to provide recommendations on technical issues as they arise.
Group members provide guidance and technical support in a personal capacity and their views are not necessarily representative of the views of their affiliate organisation/employer.
Applications
If you are interested in joining the Plan Vivo Technical Advisory Group, or would like to recommend someone else, please contact the Plan Vivo Foundation ().
The Plan Vivo Foundation is a Scottish charity, number SC040151
Plan Vivo Technical Advisory Group
Name / Affiliation/employer/role
Abigail Clare / PhD Edinburgh University Agricultural Economics Biochar
Adam Gibbon / Rainforest Alliance
Climate Change Initiative
Technical Specialist
Ahmad Kusworo / Flora and Fauna International
Andrew Cross / University of Edinburgh
Benjamin Landreau / COO,
Carbon Management Consulting
Bryan Foster / CarbonPlus Ecologic development Fund Director
Christopher Mawa / NFA, Uganda
David Burslem / University of Aberdeen
Dilwyn Jenkins / Ecotribal, Director
F. Ranil Sennayake / Rainforest Rescue International
Federico Alice / Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), School of Environmental Sciences, researcher
Floyd Homer / natural resources consulting
Gabriel Thoumi / Terra Global Capital
Gary Bull (Dr.) / University of British Columbia
Geoffrey Onyango / Care International, Sub-Saharan Africa AFOLU projects advisor
Gerald Kairu / ECOTRUST programme officer (TFGB Plan vivo project)
Hubert de Bonafos / Bureau Veritas Certification
Jenny Henman / Climate Adapt ltd.
Karen Hampson / Managing editor of 'Farming Matters'
magazine (formerly LEISA), Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Kristy Faccer / Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, South Africa
Lucy Rist / Consultant, CIFOR, Indonesia// Umeå University , Sweden
Malik Amin Aslam / Consultant for UNDP
Mark Purdon / McGill School of Environment
Marko Scholze / NERC Advance Research Fellow
Mateo Carino Fraisse / Forester, Rainforest Alliance Smartwood Programme
Matt McIntyre / Planning for Sustainable Development
Nabil Assaf / Lebanese Ministry of Environment
Okia Clement Akais / Makarere Uni, Uganda, lecturer in community forestry
PhD Bangor University
Oliver Springate-Baginski (Dr.) / School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Peter Sumbi / WWF Tanzania, senior forest programme officer
Ramakrishna Hegde (Dr.) / Dept. of Silviculture and Agroforestry,
Uni of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India
Ravinshankar Thupalli / FAO
Sitwala Wamunyima / Lusaka Province Forestry Dept, Principal Extension Officer
Sun Mao / Cambodia Rural Development Team (small-medium NGO), technical operations manager
Sunil Sharma / Carbon Planet
Till Neeff / EcoSecurities, Senior Commercialisation Manager
Zoe Cullen / Flora and Fauna International
Nophea Sasaki (Dr.) / Professor (Associate)
University of Hyogo, Graduate School of Applied Informatics, Japan, Kobe-shi, Hyogo-ken
Timothy Robards / California Dept of Forestry and Fire Protection
Debojyoti Chakraborty / Institute of Global Warming and Ecological Studies, AMITY University
Joaquim Leite / KeyAssociados, Carbon Finance Consultant
Martin Kaonga / A Rocha International, Director of Science and Conservation
Tiffany McCormick Potter / Streamline LLC, President
Thomas Dufour / ONF International
Leo Peskett / University of Edinburgh
Isilda Nhantumbo / IIED
Matilda Palm / Chalmers
Natasha Ribeiro / Eduardo Mondlane University
Almeida Sitoe / Eduardo Mondlane University