Eunice has over 10 years’ experience in use and application of earth observation technology for natural resource management. She has a Master of Science degree in GIS and Remote Sensing. She has implemented development projects in Eastern and Southern Africa region that cut across agriculture and food security, water and natural resources management and climate change monitoring and mitigation. While working at RCMRD, Eunice has held dynamic positions at technical and project management level, leading successful GIS based project implementation. She has maintained a robust working relationship with diverse clients and partners drawn from government, private sector and development agencies. Eunice continues to play a pivotal role in GMES Africa continental program where she leads the land degradation thematic service in 14 countries within Eastern Africa and S. East Coastal Africa Island nations. She supports development of the information service and capacity building efforts for end users to transfer technical knowledge on earth observation data and tools. She has supported formation of national steering committees in the project countries to enhance sustainability efforts.
Budzanani is Director, Science and Technology/Capacity Development at The Southern Africa Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), a joint initiative of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Germany in response to challenges of global climate change. He is founding Director (executive), Innovation and Technology at the Botswana Digital and Innovation Hub (BDIH), where his portfolio responsibilities included research and technology funding and commercialization. He previously held positions of, Research Fellow at the University of Botswana (Okavango Research Institute), Regional Coordinator-Southern Africa, Global Monitoring for Food Security Consortium led by Flemish Institute of Technology (VITO); and interim Coordinator in the Botswana Innovation Hub Project Office, among others. He has more than 20 cumulative years’ experience in academia (Research and Development), industry (products development), and government (science, technology, & innovation policy and Science and Technology Parks operationalization). Served as a non-executive director in the Medical Education Partnership Initiative Advisory Board and the Botswana Geoscience Institute. Currently sits on Botswana Postal Services Limited Board and is Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee. He is the founding Chairman of the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) Physics and Astronomy departmental Advisory Board. Has is a review panelist for the National Research Foundation’s African Union-Flagship projects. Editor of “The Science, Technology and Innovation Policymaking; its trends and objectives in developing countries”. A Harvard Executive Education alumnus.
My name is Erkan Guler and I am working at Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, within the LDN team. I hold an engineering degree in geomatics and a PhD in Geographical Information Systems on web-based data (soil) collection from the field with mobile devices. My area of expertise is more in GIS and Remote Sensing products focused on land cover and geographic/spatial monitoring analysis and (thematic)mapping. With regard to my professional background, I have nine years of government(Turkey), and six years of private sector experience in a national and international environment. I have carried out various responsibilities as UNCCD NFP-TURKEY (Chairman of Annex IV, Representative of Turkey to the Steering Committee of G20, the Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation and Enhancing Conservation of Terrestrial Habitats, and member of the working group on the LDN-TPP Decision Support System) I am married and have 2 kids.
PhD in forest ecology and modelling advanced M.S. in tropical agronomy. Over 15 years of professional experience with international organizations in tropical agronomy, forestry, land management, carbon cycling, geographic information system, remote sensing, and climate change. More than 10 years in FAO, responsible for supporting countries in deploying geospatial tools to support national plans and international reporting frameworks. He’s working on the following:
Director General of Centre de Suivi Ecologique in Senegal and previously Director of Future Africa at the Pretoria; Executive Director of START-International in Washington DC and Senior Scientist on Climate Change at the World Agroforestry Center. He work on drivers of land resources dynamics in various human-ecological contexts. He focused on climate impacts and land-based mitigation pathways, food security, land resource opportunities in semi-arid ecosystems.
Dr. Tidiane Ouattara received a master’s degree in physical geography from Université de Cocody-Abidjan (Côte-d’Ivoire). In 1996, Dr. Ouattara obtained a master’s degree and in 2001 a PhD, both in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) from Sherbrooke University (Canada). Dr. Ouattara is currently Space Science Expert and Coordinator for GMES & Africa Programme. He has gained tremendous experience in international relations and business development, research and development (R&D), strategic policy development and program management issues related to environment, natural resources, and sciences and technology. Indeed Dr. Ouattara began his career in Canada as lecturer at Sherbrooke University from 1996 to 2001. He taught not only scientific courses, but also African geopolitics and sociocultural issues. After a brief stay with the private sector in Montreal, in 2002 Dr. Ouattara started working with the federal government of Canada. He successively occupied various positions
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Abdoulaye Mohamadou is the Executive Secretary (ES) of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS). Created in 1973, CILSS brings together countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad and Togo. The Agrhymet Regional Center in Niamey is one of its specialized institutions.
He was elected to the post of SE at the end of the 19th Conference of Heads of State and Government of CILSS held on July 20, 2020.
Abdoulaye Mohamadou is a teacher-researcher at the Faculty of Agronomy of Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey. He is a socio-anthropologist who also officiates at the Laboratory for Studies and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development (LASDEL) in Niamey.
Agricultural engineer and Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems specialist, he started his professional career in 1995 at the National Remote Sensing Centre of Tunisia before joining the Ministry of the Environment. He firstly held the position of Sustainable Natural Resources Management expert in charge of Monitoring-Evaluation with the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) in 2003 and then as the Environment Program Coordinator since 2008. In November 2020, he was appointed Executive Secretary by the OSS Executive Board. During the 27 years of his experience, he worked on sustainable natural resources management, the development of observation and environmental monitoring tools as well as the development of climate change mitigation and adaptation programs.
