Project Management & Coordination 

The Ethiopia Climate, Peace, and Security Workshop was organized in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to explore how climate variability and environmental stressors intersect with human security, governance, and socio-economic stability. The two-day event gathered over 45 participants from government institutions, UN agencies, research centers, and civil society to identify pathways for addressing climate-related risks in fragile contexts. In this project, I had to support the overall process, from stakeholder engagement and event organization to agenda design, ensuring effective collaboration among national and international actors.

During the workshop, I led the Three Horizons exercise, a structured dialogue that helped participants connect immediate challenges with future aspirations for systemic change. Through this process, we identified short-term actions to strengthen resilience, emerging innovations with potential for wider impact, and a shared long-term vision for sustainable stability. I was responsible for preparing methodological guidelines, training my colleagues in facilitation techniques, and coordinating all working groups throughout the exercise. 

I was also responsible for the analytical and reporting components, drafting and producing the final workshop report “Towards a Common Vision: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Security in Ethiopia”, published by CGIAR in 2025. The report can be found in the publication section of this web site.  

The workshop served as both a policy dialogue and a validation space for ongoing analytical work linking climate and security. Discussions identified key priorities for  different actors in Ethiopia, including national government, UN agencies, private actors and NGOs. This initiative contributed to establishing a common platform for collaboration among ministries, research institutions, and international partners, marking an important step toward embedding climate security considerations into Ethiopia’s long-term planning and resilience strategies. 

The Somalia Climate, Peace, and Security Initiative was jointly led in partnership with Food and Agriculture of the United Nation (FAO), and The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Centre of Excellence for Climate Adaptation and Environmental Protection (CAEP) under the Climate Security Observatory framework. The project aimed to advance the understanding of how climate variability, environmental degradation, and fragility interact across Somalia, providing a basis for policy integration and coordinated responses between government, UN agencies, and civil society.

In this project, I supported and coordinated the full implementation process, from planning and partner engagement to the design and facilitation of the national workshop held in Mogadishu. The workshop brought together over 40 national stakeholders, including representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, and key sectoral ministries. 

I was also responsible for leading the final analytical and editorial process, contributing to all technical outputs and serving as lead author and editor of the final report “Towards a Common Vision of Climate, Peace, and Security in Somalia” (CGIAR, 2024).  In addition to coordinating the national consultation, I oversaw the development of complementary analytical products and led the final revisions of all documents before publication, ensuring coherence across research, visual outputs, and communication materials. All the reports can be found in the publication section of this web site. 

The workshop and analytical work focused on validating the country’s main climate security pathways, identifying how droughts, floods, resource competition, and displacement interact with governance and fragility. It also applied the Policy Coherence and Awareness Analysis (PCAA) methodology to assess cross-sectoral integration between climate and security frameworks. Key findings underscored the need for stronger coordination between federal and state institutions, the inclusion of climate-security considerations in Somalia’s National Transformation Plan (2025–2029), and the creation of area-based common programme frameworks.

This initiative provided one of the first comprehensive, evidence-based analyses of the climate–security nexus in Somalia and established a national platform for continued dialogue and policy alignment between the Government of Somalia, IGAD, FAO, and CGIAR.

This project used participatory mapping to validate and enhance the identification of climate-security hotspots across Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands. Conducted under the Beyond the Map grant, it engaged experts and community representatives from eleven counties—including Turkana, Isiolo, Garissa, Marsabit, and Lamu—to integrate local knowledge with spatial analysis and climate-conflict data.

As part of the project coordination team, I contributed to the organization of the national workshop held in Isiolo, Kenya (April 2024), supporting all stages of the process, from stakeholder engagement and result consolidation to the drafting and presentation of findings. I was responsible for producing the final technical report and contributed to a forthcoming peer-reviewed article (under review in PLOS Climate) based on the study’s analytical results.

The participatory mapping validated more than 80 pre-identified climate-security hotspots and revealed 26 new ones through community input. Discussions highlighted locally driven resilience solutions such as improved water harvesting, drought-resistant seeds and livestock, land-use planning, and early-warning dissemination. The approach strengthened collaboration among national, county, and civil-society actors, bridging scientific evidence with local perspectives to design context-specific climate, peace, and security interventions

The Climate, Peace, and Security Workshop in Dakar was convened under the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security programme to explore the interlinkages between climate risks, livelihoods, and stability in Senegal. The initiative sought to identify key pathways through which environmental pressures—such as drought, coastal erosion, and resource degradation—affect social cohesion and governance.

As part of the coordination and research team, I contributed to the organization of the workshop, synthesis of results, and preparation of the final report, “Towards a Common Vision of Climate Security in Senegal” (CGIAR, 2022) (accessible in the publication section of this web site). 

The event gathered 35 national stakeholders representing government institutions, UN agencies, civil society, and research partners. Discussions revealed three major climate-security pathways for Senegal—competition over scarce natural resources, loss of livelihoods and food insecurity, and unregulated migration—and called for integrated responses linking climate adaptation, peacebuilding, and governance.

The workshop laid the foundation for the creation of a national community of practice on climate security, bridging institutions such as COMNACC, ANACIM, and CCASA, and setting an agenda for evidence-based policy and collaborative action across the Sahel.