Charles S. Nkanda
Charles is an Environmental Scientist and Data Analyst, with good background in environmental conservation, ecological services, biodiversity management and environmental context analysis. He pursued MSc. International Land and Integrated Water Resource Management from Wageningen University and Research Centre of the Kingdom of The Netherlands; M.A in Monitoring and Evaluation from The Open University of Tanzania and BSc. Environmental Studies.
Charles is currently working for Kaengesa Environmental Conservation Society a Non Governmental organization as a Senior Program Manager specialized in biodiversity, ecology, foods, policy advocacy and management and legal issues. I also worked for TANESA Tanzania, TAREF Tanzania, HUMAC Tanzania and BARRICK Tanzania from junior staff as project officer to senior staff as a Manager of Programs. With 12 years experience in working with NGOs, I also become a Board member of TAMA Bugando, KAHAMA Women Association, Tanzania Initiatives for Health and Social Government Development and currently a Board member for Tanzania Water and Sanitation Network.
Working in multidisciplinary organizations have build his great experience in the area of capacity development, climate change resilience, renewable energy management, context analysis of projects, projects evaluation and monitoring, stakeholders analysis, organizations’ power mapping, natural resources valuation, The economies of ecosystem and biodiversity (TEEB), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Strategic Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (SESIA),Clean Development Mechanism Projects Development (CDM projects), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Research, Strategic Planning, Projects Development, Proposals Development, Theory of Change Formulation, Public Expenditure Trucking, WASH/SWASH, Log Framework Matrix Analysis, Organization Capacity Analysis, Stakeholders Analysis, Gender Analysis, Geographical Information System (GIS), NGOs Internal Systems Development, Public Expenditure Trucking (PETS), Social Accountability Monitoring System (SAMS), Financial Modeling and Business Plan Development. With extensive knowledge in using statistical package like SPSS, STATA, MS Excel and database systems like MS Access and MS Excel.
For more than 12 years he have conducted different contractual trainings with credible national and international organizations like training and evaluation of the pay by results complementary intervention water project 2018-2020 contracted by The world Bank and Oikos East Africa, Social Accountability Monitoring System contracted by SHIVIWATA Katavi, 2019, Public Expenditure Tracking system contracted by Life Change Tanzania 2019, Ecological context analysis contracted by IUCN Netherlands 2016-2017, Stakeholders analysis contracted by (IUCN Netherlands 2016), Development of strategic plans contracted by (KAWOA, TAMA Bugando, TLB, TIHSGD and KRC), agricultural value chain management contracted by SNV Tanzania, Ecological restoration contracted by SNV Tanzania, Village land use management contracted by IUCN, demarcation of 20 Rukwa village forests and production for maps contracted by IUCN and SNV Tanzania, Policy analysis by The Foundation for Civil Society 2014. He has also been engaged in the Environmental Policy reform by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.
He has also worked with government institutions in matters related to gender issues, health, conservation, investment, agriculture, food and nutrition security, community development, water security, climate change resilience, biodiversity management, etc.
For more information on the Consultant CV you can contact the Managing Director through e-mail: nccotz@gmail.com or direct call to +255 765 006088.