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Ms. Catherine Butcher
Senior Associate
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I have a Masters degrees in Natural Resource Management and in Livestock Production and extensive practical experience in social development in Africa and elsewhere. Over the past twenty years I have gained particular expertise in:
• Sustainable livelihoods approaches.
• Social (including gender) analysis.
• Identification of resource-poor/vulnerable households and individuals, poverty assessment.
• Community-led natural resource management.
• Consultation, and participation, participatory planning and strategy development.
• Monitoring and evaluation including participatory M&E, outcome and impact M&E.
• Social protection - impact assessment, avoidance and mitigation.
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I am currently leading a project to establish participatory monitoring and evaluation in Zambia, and worked with Gil and John on the DEFRA study of SOM management and with Gil on the DEFRA Evaluation of the £140m Waste Minimisation Fund. I have recently lectured on M&E and participatory methods at the University of Wales and led a GYA study for the Countryside Agency, which involves working with staff from the Countryside Agency, Market Town Steering Group and other local partners, to develop a community-based plan of action that encompasses environmental, social and institutional aspects of regeneration. Working with Awel Aman Tawe community group in Wales with funding from DTI, I have provided training in community consultations methods - semi-structured interviews and focus groups for the development of a community-owned wind farm. My management experience includes being a (voluntary) board member of a UK charity with programmes in southern and western Africa.
As well as working with many local communities on M&E, I have considerable experience of training and capacity building for DFID, NGOs and government agencies in the UK and abroad. My work both in implementation and research has looked at the relationships between people and their environment across a wide range of socio-economic contexts and agro-ecological zones. Longer-term assignments range from the analysis of grazing resources in Tanzania, the use of non-timber forest products in humid Cameroon, and research into pastoralist institutions in semi-arid regions. My most recent long-term assignment was as DFID rural development adviser to Korup National Park Programme, a programme managed by Worldwide Fund for Nature. I have published numerous articles and reports.
Contact info:
e-mail: catherine_butcher@gya.co.uk
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