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Expert in Natural Resource policies and Governance, Landscape Management, Participatory Forest management, and Biodiversity Conservation with 20 years of work experience including 1.5 as Chief of Party, 3.5 as Regional Coordinator for CIFOR in West Africa, and 5 years as Biodiversity Conservation Specialist for USAID’s West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WA BiCC) Program. |
 Contact Michael Philippe Bessike Balinga
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Director, CEO, COP, President
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Fundraising, Business Development, Grants Writer
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Professional Experience: |
Expert in Natural Resource policies and Governance, Landscape Management, Participatory Forest management, and Biodiversity Conservation with 17 years of work experience including 1.5 as Chief of Party for USAID’s Landscape Management for Improved Livelihoods (LAMIL) Transboundary Program, 3.5 as Regional Coordinator for CIFOR in West Africa, and 5 years as Biodiversity Conservation Specialist for USAID’s West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WA BiCC) Program.
My career to date has focused on applied research, project management and capacity building in the fields of conservation and livelihood development. I have worked in Central Africa from 2000-2007, and West Africa from 2007 to date, in both humid tropical and dry forest ecosystems. My main occupational interests lie in facilitating sustainable forest and wildlife management, linking conservation objectives with livelihood needs and governance requirements, based on sound biological and socio-economic science. I particularly enjoy training young foresters and researchers as well as drafting concept notes for funding opportunities. I have considerable experience in facilitating regional and global policy processes.
I have had to work with a diverse range of individuals, to build conservation or research and project implementation teams and represent institutions at community, national and International events.
I am equally fluent in French and English and can read, write and work very well in both languages.
Core areas of competence
1. Project and Institutional Management
Strategic and operational planning including development of concept notes/proposals, scopes of work, terms of references; annual work plans, budgets and reports; project monitoring and evaluation; development and coordination of partnerships; workshop, training and conference development, facilitation and participation; staff and consultant recruitment and supervision.
2. Natural Resource and Landscape Management:
Policy development, forest management; livelihood development; protected area management; local governance, community forestry and co-management of natural resources; adaptation to climate change; capacity building.
3. Combatting Wildlife Trafficking:
Development of National, regional and global policies, capacity development, data generation and coordination for enforcement, strengthening networks and communicating for behavior change.
4. Research and Capacity Building
Research design and implementation, biodiversity assessments, socio-economic and value chain analysis, data analysis, policy analysis, supervision of Master’s thesis, drafting of peer reviewed articles, communicating research results.
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Education: |
Professional Masters degree as Forest, water and wildlife Engineer obtained in 2000 from the University of Dschang in Cameroon.
Also graduated from the Smithsonian Institute short course on Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring in 2005
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Available for: |
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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