Irene Karani

Background

About Irene Karani

Irene has over 28 years in natural resource management, climate change related issues, and rural livelihoods with communities in Africa. She is extremely conversant with socio-environmental issues in a range of ecosystems and land uses. Irene has undertaken more than 100 consulting assignments covering over 10 countries in Africa with over 50 of them being in M&E. She is highly experienced in the design, management and implementation and evaluation of projects/programmes related to natural resource management (environmental management, climate change adaptation, conservation and carbon sequestration). She is also experienced in food security, water and sanitation, nutrition and health, pastoralism, conflict management, gender mainstreaming, capacity building, humanitarian interventions in water and animal health, drought cycle management, and eco-tourism and poverty alleviation issues. Irene is also conversant with the sustainable livelihoods framework and key issues of poverty alleviation. Other qualities include strong project management skills, capacity assessment, training and strategic planning processes having conducted these at community, national and regional levels. She has worked in Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Somalia (incl. Puntland, Somaliland and Central Somalia), Sudan (Khartoum), Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar.