Namibia-based company specialising in:

• Technical & advisory work in the fields of Natural Resource Management (NRM)
• Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) throughout Africa
• Land use & management impacts on the environment; Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
• Implementation of Environmental Conventions
• Preparation and implementation of GEF Projects
• Capacity building
• Policy research and advocacy
• Based in Namibia, working throughout Africa and globally

• Arid lands ecology & devising methods/approaches that help combating of degradation of natural resources, incl. desertification and biodiversity loss
• Community-based natural resource management (NRM) & NRM policy review and development
• Biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability research and management
• Mainstreaming of environmental concerns into land use planning, i.e. through application of integrated land and water management and ecosystem approaches
• Implementation, negotiation of and reporting on UN Environmental conventions especially UNCBD, UNFCCC & UNCCD, and on synergy issues
• Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) & Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA)
• Project and programme design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation
• Team leadership, training, coaching and mentoring, supervision of graduate students
• Building NGO, private sector and government partnerships
• Facilitation of participatory and consultative processes
• Work in multi-cultural and multi-ethnic environments and teams
• Experiences in human resources, financial and project management, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E)

• IECN has been involved in many Climate Change projects throughout Africa by developing Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and UNDP/ Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) country projects - preparation of climate change adaptation proposals for funding for countries e.g. Namibia, Rwanda, Eritrea, Cameroon, Mozambique and Benin.


• In Namibia, IECN has worked as expert support on numerous projects, e.g. in support of a Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF)/UNDP project titled "Adapting to Climate Change through improved traditional crops and livestock", a pilot project in Omusati region, Namibia funded by GEF/UNDP. IECN has specifically worked on:
  
  
  • Established knowledge/awareness baseline for a local level CCA pilot project
  • Participatory development and compilation of the first CCA community toolkit; training of community leaders and extension technicians as "Trainer of Trainers" (TOT).


• Consultancy on Investment and Financial Flows (I&FF) project coordinate by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism(MET), Namibia and UNDP global programme for assessing the costs of adaptation in the agriculture sector. IECN supports the Adaptation Working Group (AWG) in its work with technical guidance.


• Dr. Juliane Zeidler is a member of the Steering Committe of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) (see www.iucn.org), and serves as the Regional Vice Chair for Eastern and Southern Africa. She also represents the Commission on the IUCN Climate Change Core Group.


• Aside these specific Climate Change related projects, IECN has been invovled in numerous other assignement. Visit www.iecn-namibia.com for a more detailed project overview.

• In-house in-service training and Young Professional Trainee Programme
• Guest lecturing at UNAM, Polytech and other institutions on request
• Supervision of graduate and post-graduate thesis and research work (i.e. UNAM, Polytechnic of Namibia, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and other on request
• Curriculum development for graduate and post-graduate studies (e.g. Master Programme in Integrated Sustainable Land Management, Polytechnic of Namibia), and for technical courses (e.g. for the Namibian Coast Conservation and Management (NACOMA) project)
• Development of community toolkits and facilitation of training and Training of Trainers sessions in Namibia

Expert support services on request.

Jessica Jones, Juliane Zeidler, Henock Ramakhutla, Pierre du Plessis, Sheila Kiratu, Laudika Kandjinga, 2009. Rapid Trade and Environment Assessment - National Report for Namibia, IISD, Geneva

Kandjinga, L., Zeidler, J., Nunes, I., Chunga, R., Ndokoshe, J., submitted. Climate Change and Development: how to engage our communities in adaptation? Abstract for the International Conference on Climate Sustainability and Development in semi-arid regions (ICID 10), to be held in Forteleza, Brazil, August 2010.

Safriel, U., Adeel, Z. (coordinating authors), Niemeijer, D., Puigdefabregas, J., White, R., Lal, R., Winslow, M., Zeidler, J., Prince, S., Archer, E. and Kind Caroline (lead authors), 2005. Dryland Systems. In. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), Ecosystem and Well-being, Vol. 1, Current State and Trends., p. 623-663

Zeidler, J., 2010. Some thoughts on policy and desertification: what key contributions can scientists make to policy processes in our southern African context? African Journal of Range and Forage Science

Zeidler, J., 2007. Mainstreaming environment through the preparation of Namibia's third National Development Plan (NDP 3). MET & UNDP, Windhoek, Namibia

Zeidler, J., 2007. Biodiversity, climate change and land degradation in Africa - the challenge remains: how to we empower the people? Invited paper and presentation, 5th Trondheim meeting, People and Ecosystem Services, Norwegian Government in collaboration with the Un Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Trondheim, 29 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2007, Trondheim, Norway

Zeidler, J. & Chunga, R., 2007. Drought Hazard and Land Management in the Drylands of southern Africa, presented in Session 4: Strategies for more efficient use of weather and climate information and application for reducing land degradation, conference papers WMO/UNCCD Science meeting on Climate and Land Degradation", 11-15 December 2006, Arusha, Tanzania, edited by Shivakumar, M. & Ndiang'ui N., Springer Verlag

Zeidler, J. & Jones, J., 2007. Country case study: Namibia mainstreaming environment with a particular focus on drylands issues into development frameworks. UNDP Drylands Development Center, Nairobi, Kenya

Zeidler, J., Kinyaga, V., Mwandingi, M. & Chunga, R., 2007. Climate change adaptation (CCA) activities: some lessons learnt and some questions from the design phase of a first generation CCA pilot in Namibia. International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA), 20-22 June 2007, Nadi, Fiji