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Professor Barry Dalal-Clayton has 53 years post-graduate experience promoting sustainable development in developing and developed countries - through both project- and strategic-level assessment (social and environmental), sustainable development strategies (national and local), integrated planning and policy assessment, and sound natural resource management; with 10 years earlier in his career based in Zambia working on soil survey, rural development and agriculture for UK ODA (now DFID) and NORAD.
In 2014, he established Environment and Development Services International and is its Director.
From 1988 to 2014, he worked with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), based in London, where he was most recently a Senior Fellow and Director for Planning, Strategies and Assessment. He remains a Visiting Fellow at IIED. Here, his work involved directing research programmes; advising governments, donors and international organisations; work with the private sector and NGOs, and coordinating training and capacity-building work. His main areas of interest have included:
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Environmental mainstreaming for
sustainable development and transitioning to a green economy -
addressing the contextual and institutional challenges, tools and tactics ;
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Impact assessment
(environmental and social), integrated and strategic environmental assessment,
sustainability appraisal, visioning and scenario planning;
Environmental and social safeguards
· Sustainable development strategies and related approaches (at national to local levels);
· Resource assessment, land resources information, and land use/environmental management planning;
· Protected area management
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Participatory and community-based approaches to development,
particularly for natural resource
management and biodiversity conservation; including community-based natural resource
management (CBNRM);
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Reviews of government, aid agency and NGO strategies, policies
and programmes and project feasibility
and appraisal studies;d consultant to
numerous development cooperation agencies, development banks,
· Environmental advisor to multi-lateral development banks, bilateral aid agencies, UN organisations, NGOs and the private sector;
· Writing several books and publishing over 100 papers and reports.
During his earlier career, Barry Dalal-Clayton gained extensive specialist knowledge of soil survey procedures and worked on problems of resource degradation. He was also involved in rural development planning and agricultural development covering rainfed and irrigated tropical cropping systems in both the commercial and smallholder sectors. During 1983-85, he acted as personal environment advisor to President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. For a period, he worked with the UK National Farmers Union, focusing on land use, county development and agricultural policy issues.
Barry Dalal-Clayton has worked in 22 countries including: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, China, Ghana, Federated States of Micronesia (SM), France, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines. South Africa, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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