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Peter Veit is the Director of the Land and Resource Rights (LRR) initiative at The World Resources Institute. LRR seeks to strengthen land tenure and natural resource rights of rural people and communities by: 1) conducting research and generating new knowledge on critical property rights issues; 2) developing information platforms, including an online platform to document community rights; 3) participating in and contributing to policy and legislative reform processes; and 4) building the capacity of civil society organizations and other actors. Peter is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of International Advanced Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
Deo Kujirakwinja is the Kabobo Project Manager at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). He has been working with WCS for the last 14 years in the eastern DRC as a field researcher and Project Manager. He holds a Masters’ Degree from Cape Town and a Degree in Development Studies from the DRC. Currently, he is enrolled at Rhodes University (South Africa) in the Department of Environmental Science for his PhD program.
During his career with WCS, Deo has been working in the conflict and post-conflict context in the Eastern DRC. After supporting WCS projects in eastern DRC, he runs the Kabobo Project where he was involved in the gazettement of Kabobo Wildlife Reserve and setting up the collaborative management of the reserve with other stakeholders. Additionally, he supports the establishment of SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) in protected areas all over the DRC.
Ponjoli Joram Kabepele is a Program Director for Tuungane – a partnership project between The Nature Conservancy and Pathfinder International. He is a Landscape Ecologist who has worked with a University, the Tanzania government, a Bilateral Organization, a Consultancy firm, a Private timber company and now an NGO. Joram’s primary area of focus is on determination of best ways to scale up PHE (Population, Health and Environment) into local authorities’ planning.