A dynamic and highly skilled team specializing in 'payment for environmental services' (PES), conservation and sustainable development, with skills in:
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Nakau Core Consulting Team
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Sean Weaver - Technical Advisor, Trustee
PhD (Forest Conservation). Technical Advisor to the Nakau Programme during programme development. Executive Director, Ekos. Principal, Carbon Partnership Ltd. Specializing in environmental social enterprise. An expert in the technical and business dimensions of performance-based 'payment for environmental services' (PES). Over 25 years experience in rainforest conservation financing in the Pacific Islands and New Zealand. An expert in project & national level REDD+. Formerly: lead Policy Consultant to the Vanuatu REDD+ Programme; Lead Consultant to the Pacific Regional Policy Framework for REDD+; Lead Policy Consultant to the Fiji REDD+ Programme. Founder and developer of the Rarakau Rainforest Carbon Project - a PES/rainforest carbon project on Maori land in New Zealand. Sean lives in Takaka, New Zealand. |
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Robbie Henderson - CEO, Trustee
BSc. (Hons) Zoology, MA Education for Sustainability. CEO and co-founder of the Nakau Programme, and former Manager of Live & Learn regional PES and Indigenous programmes. 20 years experience in sustainable community development in Australia and the Pacific Islands. 2001 Young Australian of the Year Environment Award recipient (NT) and national finalist. Managed projects through Australian Government, NZAID, EU, GIZ, ADB, CEPF and UNDP on PES, REDD+, eco-systems based adaptation, community managed protected areas, environmental governance, monitoring & evaluation systems, and rural livelihoods programs. Robbie lives in Lismore, Australia. |
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Anjali Nelson - Project Development Manager, Trustee
BA (Hons) International Relations, MA Environmental Policy & Governance. Regional REDD+ Coordinator for Live & Learn International and co-founder of the Nakau Programme. Over 10 years experience in environmental policy and governance and community development in the Pacific Islands. Formerly Team Leader/Country Director of Live & Learn Vanuatu. REDD+ Advisor to the Government of Vanuatu. Managed contracts through World Bank, US DoS, ADB and ACIAR for Ecosystems-based Adaptation, REDD+ stakeholder engagement and PES. Anjali currently lives in Adelaide, Australia. |
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Josafa Lalabalavu - Project Coordination Team Leader, Fiji
Josefa is the manager of payment for ecosystem services (PES) and forest livelihoods projects for Live & Learn Fiji. Since 2011 Josefa has been responsible for the implementation of the Drawa Block REDD+ Project in Vanua Levu. His role includes engagement with landowners to facilitate their participation in a community-based approach to REDD+, including a strong focus on community governance, planning and business support. Josefa previously worked on a consultancy for The Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International as part of its 'Views from the Frontline' Global Progress Review under the Regional Disaster Programme, and as a Research Assistant for the USP School of Geography. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree - Double Major in Geography and Real Estate from the University of the South Pacific. Josefa lives in Suva Fiji. |
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Glarinda Andre - Project Coordination Team Leader, Vanuatu
REDD+ and Local Projects Manager at Live & Learn Vanuatu. Glarinda has been engaged in REDD+ since 2012 and has worked in provincial planning involving landuse planning with clan groups. She has been the key contact point for the Loru Forest Project since 2012. Glarinda has extensive experience in developing and implementing community consultation procedures for sustainability, project governance, and community business development. She is on the National REDD+ Core Working Group and is a member of the UNFCCC Vanuatu Taskforce. Glarinda lives in Port Vila, Vanuatu. |
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Wilko Bosma - Project Coordination Team Leader, Solomon Islands
Wilko has extensive experience in community sustainable forestry in the Solomon Islands. He leads the Natural Resources Development Foundation (NRDF Solomon Islands) and coordinates project development and implementation for the Sasaboe Rainforest Conservation Project - the Nakau project in the Solomon Islands. He is a regional leader in sustainable timber certification as well as community engagement in forest-related community sustainability projects. He lives in Gizo, Solomon Islands. |
Nakau Consulting Partners
Nakau Consulting Partners are independent consultants who have worked closely with the Nakau Programme staff either during the development of the Nakau Programme and its projects or in related work.
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Ian Payton - Forest Carbon Measurement Consultant
PhD Plant Ecology. Led the Forest Carbon Stock inventory for the Nakau Programme's Loru Forest Project, Vanuatu. Formerly Research & Programme Leader, Landcare Research, New Zealand as a forest ecologist leading the Global Change Processes Team. Was leader of the Landcare Research carbon monitoring programme, and responsible for the development of the New Zealand Carbon Accounting System. Senior team member that developed the national-level carbon accounting methodologies for forest carbon stock/stock change (and senior author of the associated manuals). Developed methodologies for the NZ Permanent Forest Sink Initiative (PFSI) and the indigenous forest component of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. Co-designed (with Sean Weaver) the forest carbon accounting methodology for the Rarakau Rainforest Conservation Project in New Zealand. Forest carbon inventory consultant to the Fiji National REDD+ Programme. |
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Hugh Lovesy - Nakau Trustee & Community Business Consultant
Hugh Lovesy comes from Alice Springs, Central Australia. He has a background in psychology and also extensive managerial, entrepreneurial and cross cultural experience. He is a passionate about the environment and ensuring justice and fairness in the global economy. In 1977 Hugh founded a local rural development organization in Rajasthan, N.W. India and lived in a small Indian village. From 1984 he worked in the remote Aboriginal community of Mimili in Central Australia – mainly in the role of community advisor. In 1994 he co-founded Little Fish. The company was formed to put financial management and capacity building techniques, developed successfully by Hugh while at Mimili, into practice on a large scale. Little Fish was the first Northern Territory company ever to win a national award in the prestigious Telstra Business Awards. Hugh’s story has been told in the book ‘Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives’ (New Holland 2001). He has been featured on ABC TV’s well known business programme – Inside Business. |
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Murray Ward - Climate Financing Consultant
Principal - Global Climate Change Consultancy. A specialist in assisting public and private sector groups to understand international climate change policy and develop strategic programmes to identify opportunities and risks and means to engage on issues that are key to their interests. Formerly led the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment’s climate change team. In addition to steering the development of domestic climate change policy, Murray was a leading senior negotiator in NZ delegations to international climate change meetings. He is one of the key architects of the Kyoto framework, in particular for his international work on Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (‘sinks’) and market trading mechanisms. This has included chairing key rules-drafting groups and the development of the international emissions unit registries system. Murray's current international focus is on the “Where to next, and how?” for an enlarged multilateral climate change regime. Its domestic work focuses on the implementation and prospects for the key market-based policies at the core of New Zealand’s domestic climate change policy. |
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Cherise Addinsall - Social Research Consultant
PhD in Business and Tourism, BA with First Class Honours in Environmental Tourism Management with University medal for outstanding academic achievement, Best academic performance for sustainability related studies; highest grade point average in sustainability and waste related studies. Previous and current research projects with CRC for Remote Economic Participation, ACIAR, FAO, and Live and Learn in agroecology and sustainable livelihoods options for small island states, sociocultural aspects of rural livelihoods in island cultures, enhancing the livelihoods of women and marginalised people in the Pacific, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Payment for Environmental Services (PES) (with particular focus on the tourism sector), Sustainable/Ecotourism/Agricultural and cultural tourism development and accreditation (agroecological tourism). Cherise currently lives in Lismore, Australia. |