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The Project Partnership
The "Wings Over Wetlands"
- African-Eurasian Flyways Project brings together several
different specialized organizations and partners, which
work together towards its implementation. The Project Coordination
Unit (PCU) is the operative center of the project administered
by the United Nations Office for Project Management (UNOPS),
which is also the Executing Agency for the GEF-funded project.
UNEP as Implementing Agency and both Wetlands International
and BirdLife International as main technical partners are
the key implementing organizations of the project.
The 11 demonstration projects
are managed by local executing agencies in each country.
AEWA and Ramsar are the key multilateral environment agreements
(MEAs) whose Action Plans are being supported by the project.
Project Coordination
Unit (PCU)
The Project Coordination Unit
(PCU) of the "Wings Over Wetlands" - African-Eurasian
Flyways Project is staffed by a Chief Technical Advisor
and a Junior Operations Manager, employed by UNOPS. Based
within the office of Wetlands
International in Wageningen, the PCU team works
closely with all project partners and sub-contractors to
coordinate and facilitate all project activities. The
unit is the primary vehicle for project coordination and
the central hub for day to day operations and communication
with the broad range of partners in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Below you
will find the contact details and biographical information
for the two PCU staff members and for the two main technical
partner organisations:
Chief
Technical Advisor
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Edoardo Zandri
(Italy)
Chief Technical Advisor
edoardoz@unops.org
Tel: +31 (0)317 4 78875 |
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| Ed is
an experienced manager of multi-sector biodiversity
conservation projects, focusing on capacity building
and community-based management in terrestrial and
marine Protected Areas. Before joining the African-Eurasian
Flyways Project, he led important GEFfunded biodiversity
conservation initiatives in the Socotra Archipelago
(Yemen), Jordan and Cape Verde. He also worked in
Oman, China, Uganda, Philippines, Armenia, Romania,
Botswana, Syria and Ecuador on short term assignments.
He is currently a board Member of the Socotra Conservation
Fund and continues to be involved in the Socotra
Conservation Fund and in other conservation efforts
for the Socotra Archipelago. |
Junior
Operations Manager
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Camillo Ponziani
(Canada)
Junior Operations Manager
camillop@unops.org
Tel: +31 (0)317 4 78876 |
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| Camillo
holds an undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict
Studies and a Masters in Environment and Development
from the Institute for Development Policy and Management
in the United Kingdom. Before joining the AEWA Flyways
Project, he worked for the Land Degradation Cluster
Group within the UNDP’s Global Environment
Facility and for the UNDP Drylands Development Centre
in Nairobi, Kenya. He has been involved in the implementation
of numerous conservation and natural resource management
initiatives in Canada, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda,
and Tanzania. In January 2005, he helped coordinate
a global
gathering of pastoralists and livestock herders
from over 25 countries. |
Project
Partners and Contractors:
Wetlands
International
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Ward Hagemeijer
(The Netherlands)
Head of Biodiversity and Ecological Networks
Wetlands
International
Ward.Hagemeijer@wetlands.org
Tel: +31 (0)317 4 78867 |
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| Ward is
an ecologist and ornithologist by training and has
been heading the global biodiversity and flyway
work of Wetlands International for over 5 years
now. This involves developing and supervising the
implementation of International wetland biodiversity
projects, including flyway projects in all the major
flyways of the world. Ward is personally involved
with AEWA and CMS through participation in their
Scientific and Technical bodies and Standing Committees. |
BirdLife
International
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Alison Stattersfield
(United Kingdom)
Head of Science
BirdLife
International
Ali.Stattersfield@birdlife.org
Tel. +44 (0)1223 279834 |
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| Alison
Stattersfield is currently the Head of Science at
BirdLife International’s Secretariat in Cambridge,
UK, where she has worked for the last 20 years.
During the 1980s and 1990s she was involved in IUCN
Red List assessments for all the world’s birds
and in the identification of Endemic Bird Areas
as priority areas for conservation. More recently
she has contributed to establishing the global scientific
standards for monitoring the condition of, threats
to, and actions at Important Bird Areas. She has
a particular interest in informing policy processes
through sound science, for example through international
conventions such as CITES and CMS. |
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