Expertise

Climate Justice and Environmental Rights

Climate governance, adaptation, loss and damage, and environmental rights, with attention to how gender, age, disability, class and place shape exposure and participation.

Rights-based advocacy and programme design across climate governance, adaptation and loss and damage. Serves as Human Rights Defence Africa Regional Focal Person for Terre des Hommes Germany, and represents the organisation at the UNFCCC COPs and the Africa Climate Summit.

• Climate justice, adaptation, and loss and damage
• Rights-based advocacy and environmental rights protection
• Human and environmental rights defence
• Gender-responsive climate policy

Environment and Energy Law

Environmental and energy law, mineral extraction, the just energy transition, and multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance.

LLM in Environment and Energy Law (University of Birmingham, in progress). Published research on mineral extraction and environmental rights in Zimbabwe (Stellenbosch Law Review, 2025). Regional focal point for multi-jurisdictional compliance, donor reporting and regulatory alignment.

• Just energy transition and mineral extraction
• Environmental law and policy analysis
• Multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance
• Natural resource governance

ESG, Green Enterprise and Climate Finance

ESG systems, inclusive green entrepreneurship and climate finance for small and medium enterprises in Southern Africa.

Diploma in ESG and Sustainability; ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems. Programme experience in sustainable livelihoods, market access and youth economic empowerment, including the Green Transformation civil-society programme in Mozambique.

• Inclusive green entrepreneurship pathways
• Proportionate ESG systems for SMEs
• Climate finance access and readiness
• Sustainable livelihoods and market access

Water Security and Community Resilience

Water security, WASH, green infrastructure and community resilience in urban and rural settings.

Established and coordinated a water and sanitation department linking water management to climate-smart agriculture and livelihoods; strategic coordination of integrated climate action and adaptation programming in Inhambane and Gaza, Mozambique.

• Water management, WASH and livelihoods integration
• Green infrastructure for urban and rural resilience
• Climate-smart agriculture and food security
• Climate vulnerability, mobility and displacement

Customary Governance and Indigenous Knowledge

Customary authority, indigenous knowledge and rural land governance in local adaptation systems.

Published research on customary authority, conservation and rural governance in post-land-reform Zimbabwe (International Journal of Social Science and Human Research, 2025), and on mining and development in Gwanda District.

• Customary authority and rural land governance
• Indigenous knowledge in adaptation planning
• Community-led conservation
• Local legitimacy and institutional design

Children's Rights and Intergenerational Justice

Children's environmental rights, child participation in climate decision-making, and intergenerational justice.

Regional coordination of the Multi-Actor Partnership on children's environmental rights in the extractive industry (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia); collaboration with the AU ACERWC working group on children's rights and climate change; organising committee member for the SADC Child-Led Parliamentary Portfolio and SADC Child Climate Champions.

• Children's environmental rights in the extractive industry
• Constitutional and policy analysis of protections for children
• Child-led and youth-led participation in climate decision-making
• Intergenerational justice frameworks

Research, Evidence and Institutional Capacity

Research, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional capacity building for governments, civil society and regional partners.

Design of monitoring, evaluation and learning systems; training and accountability frameworks for government officials, civil society networks and community leaders; peer-reviewed publications and book chapters; PhD in Development Studies.

• Monitoring, evaluation, learning and data-informed programming
• Training, facilitation and institutional capacity building
• Research, knowledge management and publication writing
• Multi-stakeholder governance and coalition-building