Phase 2: Assessment - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID

Carol Hansen provides technical and planning support to USAID’s Office of Natural
Resource Management through the Natural Resources Information Clearinghouse,
based at Chemonics International. Prior to joining Chemonics, Carol spent 20 years with
the federal government stateside. Most recently she worked as an environmental
planner and outreach coordinator for the USDA/Natural Resources Conservation
Service, where she coordinated multi-agency teams in developing and implementing
watershed-based nonpoint source management plans, and provided soup-to-nuts
coordination of water quality conferences and trade shows on special detail to the US
Environmental Protection Agency, Region I. She also coordinated a New England pilot
project for the Henry Wallace Institute National Agricultural Policy Project, which
assessed policy, infrastructure, management, and funding changes needed to better
support sustainable agriculture. Prior to that, Carol worked with the USDI National Park
Service both at its Coastal Resources Research Center in New Jersey, and as Water
Resources Planner at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, where she
teamed with regulators at the Delaware River Basin Commission to develop precedentsetting
anti-degradation regulations for the Middle and Upper Delaware Scenic and
Recreational Rivers. She holds a B.A. from Harvard College in Environmental Studies
and obtained an M.A. in Geography/Coastal Resources Management from Rutgers
University.
Peter Hetz is an expert in community-based natural resources management,
governance, land tenure and property rights. He lived and worked in Africa between
1977 and 1995, working on land and natural resources management programming, with
a strong focus on protected areas, conservation, and community-based natural
resources management. For many years, (eco)tourism has been considered an
appropriate tool for community benefit sharing and economic growth. His work began
with a fellowship for the Kenya Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife and focused on some of
the country's earliest efforts to engage pastoralists of northern Kenya and customary
land tenure practices in conservation programming. Since that time he has worked in
conjunction with the Universities of Nairobi and Makerere in Kampala, and with the
African Wildlife Foundation, CARE-International, and the EU/TANAPA. His last
residential assignment in Africa was in Tanzania where he worked as an advisor to the
Tanzania National Parks on tourism planning, management, EIA, interpretive design and
training, and the development of community conservation services, extension education,
and benefit sharing program while based in the Serengeti National Park. Peter provided
the design concepts for the Serengeti, Manyara and Tarangire National Park interpretive
facilities for visitors.
Peter has been a full-time employee of ARD since 1996, and was Chief of Party for the
USAID-Bulgaria Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Growth Project between 1999
and 2004. A major part of the BCEG Project promoted ecotourism as an economic
growth and conservation tool. That effort resulted in significant economic benefits to rural
communities bordering protected areas, and a national ecotourism strategy and
investment plan based on the formation of regional ecotourism associations/clusters that
was adopted by the GoB.
Peter holds a dual Bachelors degree in International Relations and Ecology from Brown
University, and a dual Masters (M.Ed. Adult Education, CBNRM and Property Rights)
from Boston University.