Rachael Hannay

Rachael is a social anthropologist specialising in community-based natural resource management and holds a Masters degree in Sustainable Development and Emergency Practice. She also has expertise in the areas of stakeholder analysis, social data collection and cross-sector partnerships. She has recently worked in Cambodia alongside local NGO’s, designing and facilitating multi-stakeholder processes and locally-led monitoring and evaluation (M&E) programs for community forestry initiatives. Rachael has been published on the subject of equitable benefit-sharing of forest resources and the critical importance of forests as safety nets to the rural poor. She has extensive experience working within community-based programs in Colombia, Peru, Tanzania and Cambodia which have included educational projects, disaster risk reduction strategies and undertaking social impact assessments (SIA) for land-based carbon projects. Rachael is co-director for the Centre for Natural Capital Ltd, a non-profit consultancy based within the University of Kent, specialising in sustainable land-use opportunities including carbon projects and agroforestry.