Tom Franks has nearly thirty years of research and consultancy experience in water resources, project management and institutional development. He has recently returned from Tanzania where he was team leader for the DFID-funded project 'Sustainable Management of the Usangu Wetland and its Catchment'. He has long-term experience in Sudan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Tanzania.
Ian Goldman has twenty years experience of rural development and change management for addressing poverty and sustainable livelihoods. He is a member of the DFID SL support group, and has conducted research on institutional aspects of SL accross Southern Africa. He has worked in Mexico, the UK, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Malawi and South Africa, working with local government, NGOs, provincial and national governments, and international assignments with DFID, EU, UNDP, and the World Bank. He is a founder-member of Khanya-managing rural change, and has recently been awarded a PhD in rural development.
David Howlett has nearly twenty years of experience of natural resource management and rural livelihoods in the planning, appraisal, and development of projects in the agricultural and forestry sectors. He has worked for a range of public and non-government organisations including IIED and IBSRAM, with extensive research experience in the agricultural and forestry sectors.
Faustin Kamuzora has 12 years experience in agricultural development and project planning in Tanzania. Since completing a Masters in the US he has been involved in research and teaching in agricultural economics, project planning and management, development economics, international economics, microeconomics, econometrics, macroeconomics and computer applications.
Joe Marumo has a MSc in Botany from the University of Cape Town and has lectured in Biological Sciences and worked as a consultant in the Rural Strategy Unit of the Free State Department of Agriculture. Subsequently, he worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with the Land and Agriculture Policy Centre before beocming a founder-member of Khanya-managing rural change.
Fred Muhumuza is a macro and meso level policy analysis and review economist. His main areas of interest lie in the transmission and implications of public sector policies and activites on growth in the private sector and poverty eradication. He is currently a Ph.D student at IDPM and holds and MA in Economic Policy and Planning from Makerere University. He also lectures at Makerere Institute of Economics and Nkumba University's business school in Entebbe.
Anna Toner is Research Assistant to the project. She has an MA in Social Sciences and research experience in Tanzania. She has worked as a teacher in Nepal and on a social development project in the UK. She is undertaking a PhD relevant to the project.