Science, Environment and Development Group

Other SED-related events in CID's Graduate Student Lunch Series

Friday, 24 October 2003
Transforming Rural Lives: Capturing Opportunities for a Bigger Impact in the Forest Margins
Dagmar Timmer, Programme Associate and Political Scientist, Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme (ASB), ICRAF - World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
11:45 am - 1:00 pm, Perkins Room (E-415), 4th Floor, Eliot Building, KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served

Biography:

Dagmar Timmer is Programme Associate and Political Scientist with the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme (ASB) at ICRAF – World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. At ASB, Timmer is undertaking a strategic stakeholder analysis to help systematically identify key stakeholders and relationships that operate at the programme’s forest margin benchmark sites in the Amazon of Brazil and Perú, the Congo Basin forest of Cameroon, the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, the northern mountains of Thailand, and the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. She has also been coordinating the development of the Rainforest Challenge Partnership, an initiative of two research agencies (ICRAF and CIFOR) and two major conservation organizations (IUCN and WWF) to tackle the linked challenges of poverty reduction and forest conservation at a landscape scale. Prior to joining ICRAF, Timmer worked for four years as Programme Associate for The World Conservation Union - IUCN in Geneva, Switzerland. As a member of their Forest Conservation Programme (FCP) team, she coordinated IUCN's cross-regional substantive input to the World Bank's forest policy review. She was also actively engaged in developing the Forest Landscape Restoration approach, including co-authoring a publication about forest restoration in Eastern Africa which was launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Timmer's work on environmental issues has spanned from the local and national to international levels - from grassroots awareness-raising campaigns in her home city of Vancouver to advocacy in international policy fora such as the UN Conference on Human Settlements. Timmer holds an MA in Political Science from Simon Fraser University and a BA from Queen's University in Canada. Her thesis examined the relationship between environmental NGOs and governments in the development and delivery of national green planning strategies in Canada and the Netherlands. Her aim is to develop a career fostering and mediating constructive relations between civil society and policy-makers in the field of sustainable development, particularly sustainable resource management.

Presentation slides:

Timmer, Dagmar. "Transforming Rural Lives: Capturing Opportunities for a Bigger Impact in the Forest Margins." PowerPoint presentation from Graduate Student Lunch Series seminar, 24 October 2003, Center for International Development, Harvard University.