@chadbironga
I am a Research Economist working with the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI). My day-to-day work includes participating in problem identification and situational analysis, developing research concepts and design experiments, leading in collection and analysis of data on economic parameters, preparing technical reports and develop proposals for funding, formulating development strategies, and identifying, formulating, preparing and evaluating development strategies. I am in charge of Coordinating Internal Seminars and Workshops for the Freshwater Systems Directorate of KMFRI.
Some of my achievements include being a recipient of a World Bank Scholarship to pursue my Masters of Economics at the University of Nairobi under the Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project. I was also meritoriously selected to be a University of Nairobi Research and Innovation Fellow for the year 2021.
I have designed and led the first and only fish value chain analysis for Lake Turkana in 2019, a survey whose results were much publicised and presented at the Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre’s (SAJOREC) 2019 Workshop, Ninth Great Lakes of the World Conference (GLOW9) and the Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference (IIC6). I am a published first author in an international indexed, peer-reviewed journal, a member of the Lake Turkana National Parks Area Management National Working Group and part of the Working Group that formulated the workplan for Lamu's Mikoko Rehabilitation Project that is being undertaken by CIRAD and IRD through the Embassy of France.
I have been a speaker and discussant in panels on Climate Change, particularly the 2019 Youth Conference on Climate Change. I am a founding member of the Route to Food Alliance, which is a group of more than 600 women and men who use their personal or professional platforms to
champion for the Right to Food in Kenya.
Currently, I am also a 2021 Mastercard Website Development Fellow at e-Mobilis.
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