monitoring, evaluation, learning and process facilitation, and with private sector
companies to strengthen their sustainability development.
Jacques Somda is a senior regional program officer with the International Union
for conservation of nature, Central and West Africa program. He holds a doctoral
degree in rural economics for the University of Cocody, Co ˆte d’Ivoire. His research
work focuses on project/program monitoring and evaluation, climate change M&E,
environmental economics, technology adoption and policy analysis.
Philip Thornton leads the flagship on “Policies and institutions for climateresilient food systems” of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change,
Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He is hosted at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya, and based in Edinburgh. He is an
Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences at the University of
Edinburgh. He has a PhD in Farm Management and Agricultural Economics from
Lincoln College, New Zealand. His research interests include integrated modelling
at different scales and evaluating climate change impacts and adaptation options in
smallholder farming systems in the tropics and subtropics. He has contributed to
several global assessments including the IPCC’s Fourth and Fifth Assessments.
Abasse Tougiani is a Senior Scientist at National Agricultural Research Institute of
Niger (INRAN) and he is a ICRAF focal point in Niamey, Niger. He holds a PhD in
Biology and Silviculture from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His
research interests include Agro forestry, Climate Change, Iintegration of Agriculture Livestock and Tree species production system and cultivation of high-value
indigenous tree species.
Pia Treichel is the Program Manager for Climate Change Adaptation at Plan
International Australia. With over 9 years’ experience working on climate change
with a focus ranging from local government to the United Nations, Pia currently
works on child- and youth-centred climate change with Plan International. Pia has a
Master of Environment degree from Melbourne University.
Juha I. Uitto is Director of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office. He has
previously held positions as Deputy Director and Evaluation Adviser in the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
and as Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator/Specialist with the GEF. Since the
late-1990s, he has conducted and managed a large number of programmatic and
thematic evaluations of international cooperation at the global, regional and country
levels, in particular related to environmental management and poverty-environment
linkages. Dr. Uitto spent the 1990s with the United Nations University coordinating
the university’s environment and sustainable development research and training
programs. His earlier work included positions in the Nordic Africa Institute, the
International Fund for Agricultural Development and as consultant in development
cooperation. He has had visiting positions in the Graduate School of Global
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companies to strengthen their sustainability development.
Jacques Somda is a senior regional program officer with the International Union
for conservation of nature, Central and West Africa program. He holds a doctoral
degree in rural economics for the University of Cocody, Co ˆte d’Ivoire. His research
work focuses on project/program monitoring and evaluation, climate change M&E,
environmental economics, technology adoption and policy analysis.
Philip Thornton leads the flagship on “Policies and institutions for climateresilient food systems” of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change,
Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He is hosted at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya, and based in Edinburgh. He is an
Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences at the University of
Edinburgh. He has a PhD in Farm Management and Agricultural Economics from
Lincoln College, New Zealand. His research interests include integrated modelling
at different scales and evaluating climate change impacts and adaptation options in
smallholder farming systems in the tropics and subtropics. He has contributed to
several global assessments including the IPCC’s Fourth and Fifth Assessments.
Abasse Tougiani is a Senior Scientist at National Agricultural Research Institute of
Niger (INRAN) and he is a ICRAF focal point in Niamey, Niger. He holds a PhD in
Biology and Silviculture from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His
research interests include Agro forestry, Climate Change, Iintegration of Agriculture Livestock and Tree species production system and cultivation of high-value
indigenous tree species.
Pia Treichel is the Program Manager for Climate Change Adaptation at Plan
International Australia. With over 9 years’ experience working on climate change
with a focus ranging from local government to the United Nations, Pia currently
works on child- and youth-centred climate change with Plan International. Pia has a
Master of Environment degree from Melbourne University.
Juha I. Uitto is Director of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office. He has
previously held positions as Deputy Director and Evaluation Adviser in the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
and as Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator/Specialist with the GEF. Since the
late-1990s, he has conducted and managed a large number of programmatic and
thematic evaluations of international cooperation at the global, regional and country
levels, in particular related to environmental management and poverty-environment
linkages. Dr. Uitto spent the 1990s with the United Nations University coordinating
the university’s environment and sustainable development research and training
programs. His earlier work included positions in the Nordic Africa Institute, the
International Fund for Agricultural Development and as consultant in development
cooperation. He has had visiting positions in the Graduate School of Global
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