Database of experts / Stephan Fuller
IntroductionStephan Fuller is a sustainable development consultant focusing on strategic planning, institutional strengthening and capacity development, participatory methods, project management and monitoring and evaluation. He maintains a subsidiary practice focusing on mountain environments, protected areas and biodiversity conservation. Recent clients have included United Nations agencies including UN Development Program (UNDP), the UN Environment Program (UNEP), and the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), multilateral institutions such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, and international development donors such as the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the EU, the Government of Canada, the governments of Yukon, British Columbia, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador IUCN, WWF, CARE and other international and Canadian NGOs, aboriginal organizations and municipal governments. Projects have recently been completed in Jordan , Bhutan, China, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Canada. Details of the specific projects are included in the following sections listed below and on the web at www.fuller-imc.com .
Citizenship: Canada
Birthdate: July 4, 1953
Gender: male
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4447 George St, Sydenham, ON, K0H 2T0, Canada Phone: 1-613-376-6889 Email: fullers@kingston.net Site: www.fuller-imc.com |
Work experience
| From: January 1, 1978 |
To: November 30, 1999 |
Position: President |
| Organization: self employed consultant |
Business type: Sustainable development and environmental planning |
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| Address: 4447 George St Sydenham ON Canada |
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| Description: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the Royal Society for Nature Conservation in Jordan, 2004/2005 and continuing – Team Leader for a GEF Full (multi-year) project design for the Jordan Rift Valley, including management of a multi-national and multidisciplinary team assessing and designing an expanded protected areas system along the Jordan River Valley, and the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba (with Arcadis EuroConsult, Arnhem Netherlands) Republic of Kazakhstan (Forestry Committee, Ministry of Agriculture) and the World Bank, 2004 and continuing – Team Leader for the design of a community involvement and participatory planning component in the Forest Protection and Reforestation Project in the upper Aral Sea watershed. The project designs long term investments to strengthen the National Forest management system, rehabilitate the NE Irtysh pine forest ecosystem and improve saxaul woodland/rangeland management in the southern Kyzyl Orda Oblast (with AFC Consultants, Bonn, Germany and MNT Consultants, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) Asian Development Bank, Transitional Government of Afghanistan (Ministries of Agriculture and rural Development) DFID and the Global Environment Facility, 2004 – consultant for project preparation for the new GEF Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection Project which will undertake the restoration of Afghanistan’s protected areas system and the implementation of biodiversity conservation; including capacity development for protected areas re-development and poverty alleviation within buffer zone communities. The World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the Peoples Republic of China, State Forest Agency, 2004– capacity development, training plan implementation and management planning consultant in 13 Nature reserves (in 7 provinces) as part of the Protected Areas Management Planning component of the WorldBank Forestry Loan Program. This initiative was part of the implementation of the Chinese commitment to a National Biodiversity Strategy under the Convention on Biological Diversity. UNDP Iran, the Global Environment Facility (PDF B) and the Iran Department of Environment, 2004 –design of alternative livelihood proposals for 6 protected areas in the Central Zagros Mountains of western Iran. This is part of the GEF Conservation of Biodiversity in the Central Zagros Mountains Ecosystem project which is part of the implementation plan for the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. UNDP Russia/Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Kamchatka Oblast State Parks Directorate, 2003/4 –design of public participation options for protected areas managers in four protected areas in the Kamchatka Oblast, including an internet-based and interactive six-month management planning process with 24 Russian staff. UNDP Iran, Area-Based Development Program 2003 – consultant during the multi-disciplinary preparation of the sustainable development components of the new “area-based development” program in the provinces of Kerman, Kermanshah, Fars, and Kokiluyeh Boyerahmad. (A Millennium Development Goals implementation initiative) The World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the Peoples Republic of China, State Forest Agency, 2003– consultant for Training Needs Assessment in 13 Nature reserves in 7 provinces as part of the Protected Areas Management Planning component of the WB Forestry Loan Program. UNDP Bhutan, GEF, and the Bhutan Division of Nature Conservation, 2003 – Team Leader for a terminal evaluation of a management planning program at Jigme Dorje National Park in the eastern Himalaya. This is part of the implementation of the Bhutan National Biodiversity Conservation Strategy UNDP Iran, the Global Environment Facility and the Iran Department of Environment, 2003 – participatory planning and training design for seven protected areas in the central Zagros Mountains of western Iran. This is part of the GEF Conservation of Biodiversity in the Central Zagros Mountains Ecosystem project. UNDP Russia/Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Kamchatka Oblast State Parks Directorate, 2003 and ongoing – capacity development training workshops for protected areas managers in four protected areas in the Kamchatka Oblast, including an internet-based and interactive six-month management planning process with 24 Russian staff, including an introduction to international management planning processes. Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), 2003 – development of six modules for capacity development and training for sustainable development for domestic environmental assessment staff. (With la group-conseil baastel, Gatineau, Quebec) IUCN Pakistan, SDC and NORAD. 2002, - completion of the Northern Areas Strategy for Sustainable Development (NASSD) – a strategic plan for the Northern Areas Administration in Pakistan. IUCN Pakistan, UNDP and GEF 2002, - development of alternative livelihoods and ecotourism options for the Qashqar and Gojal Conservancies in the GEF Mountain Areas Conservancy Project (MACP) in NWFP and the Northern Areas of Pakistan Canadian International Development Agency. 2002 and ongoing – design of options for new capacity development programming for improved implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), with a specific focus on the Convention on Biological Diversity and other global initiatives on desertification and climate change. UNDP, GEF and the State Forest Agency, Peoples Republic of China. 2001 - Team Leader and advisor on protected areas management for new nature reserves in Sichuan, Gansu and Xinjiang provinces in the headwaters of the Yellow River on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Specific tasks included biodiversity/strategic planning, management plan development, project management, protected areas training, and alternative livelihood development. Several Canada-based projects were undertaken from late 1997 – 2000. Examples include: Innu Nation - Labrador, Canada. 2000-2001 –environmental consulting services in support of land claims negotiations for the aboriginal communities of Sheshatshiu and Davis Inlet. This work included the design of co-management agreements for resource developments such as the Voisey’s Bay nickel mine, the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric project and the new Mealy Mountains National Park. Another example includes a project with the City of Kingston, Ontario managing and implementing a strategic environmental planning and public participation forum during 2000. Other projects were completed for Canadian-based environmental NGOs related to protected areas implementation primarily in Ontario, Canada. |
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