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Alejandra Orozco

Alejandra Orozco is an international development practitioner and researcher with more than 15 years of experience in Latin America, Africa and Canada. Dr. Orozco’s expertise relates to environmental governance and the sustainability of conservation efforts, and she has multi-country research experience on state-led conservation, land policies, communal land tenure systems, and community-based approaches to development and conservation.

She has experience working with indigenous and local communities, NGOs, government agencies and the private sector in the design, implementation and promotion of community development, and in providing sound technical input to support decision-making. She is experienced at Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial analysis and various mapping approaches. Her work experience also includes training human resources to design and undertake social research and building the capacity of indigenous communities to address their land rights and improve the inclusivity of policies and programs on land, conservation and socio-economic development.

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Lance Robinson

Lance Robinson is an international development professional and researcher with more than two decades of experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has experience in the design and implementation of projects involving community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), multi-stakeholder engagement, and policy processes. He leads processes for the design and development of policy, legislation, and environmental and land use planning frameworks. Dr. Robinson also specializes in natural resource governance and resilience building in pastoralist and agropastoralist communities. As a researcher, he has designed and led projects on landscape approaches, landscape governance, institutions, natural resource management, resilience and rural livelihoods.

Dr. Robinson has broad experience applying and providing training in the use of participatory approaches, and has been in the forefront of methodologies such as Participatory Rangeland Management and Community Scorecards. He has a successful track record in capacity building, the leadership and management of teams, proposal development, and meeting donor reporting requirements. He is committed to strengthening the capacity of target populations to take ever greater control of their own endeavors toward sustainable development.

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