brinjal | Promoting Livelihoods Development

Roger has more than ten years consultancy experience in international development and the natural resource management sector. His academic background is in livelihoods analysis and the socio-economics of local natural resource management. He currently provides evaluation, impact assessment and planning support to natural resource management, food security, water and WASH projects and supports teams to assess livelihoods and institutional performance.

Roger has particular expertise in analysing and supporting local management institutions in the context of projects and policies of decentralisation. He has a strong commitment to improving the understanding of local realpolitik and making use of this in project design, project management and monitoring. His publications and training materials on local planning, advocay, and consensus building are currently in use in North Darfur, Kenya, Peru and Bangladesh.…View Profile

Stuart has fourteen years' experience in policy research, evaluation and advocacy in international development.

Stuart worked for many years with Practical Action, the UK-based International NGO. He has an academic background in the social sciences and has published on a range of development topics and methods. including international and national policy in the energy, food and agriculture sectors. In recent years he has specialised in food sovereignty and livelihoods in arid and semi-arid lands. He is a highly effective and experienced manager of projects and staff teams and is fluent in written and spoken Spanish. Stuart has an extensive track record of inter-disciplinary collaborations in Latin America, Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia. … View Profile

Roger Lewins, MSc

Stuart Coupe, DPhil