CURRICULUM V ITAE
Personal information
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Address
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MENSURO, Girma Kelboro
Center for Development Research (ZEFa), University of Bonn, Walter-FlexStr. 3, 53113, Bonn, Germany
Landline:+49 228731915
Mobile: +4917635308761
+49 228731889
Girma75@yahoo.com or girmakelboro@daad-alumni.de
23 April 1975
Ethiopian
Male
Work experience
Date
Occupation or position held
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
Date
Occupation or position held
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
Date
Occupation or position held
Main activities and
responsibilities
From October 2013 to present
Post-doc Researcher, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University
of Bonn
ZEF, University of Bonn (address given above)
Research
From October 2009 to September 2013
Junior Researcher, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of
Bonn and PhD Candidate, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of
Hohenheim
ZEF, University of Bonn (address given above)
Research
From December 2002 to July 2009
Lecturer and Vice Head
Teaching and research on natural resource policy and law, integrated
watershed management planning, conflict management, indigenous
knowledge and participatory approaches to undergraduate students of
natural resource management; action research on culture and forestry,
agroforestry and energy-saving technologies; leading, supervising,
guiding and decision-making on the human resource and financial
management and income generation units (forestry operations,
agriculture and wood utilization)
Name and address of employer Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hawassa
University, P O Box 128, Shashemene, Ethiopia
Type of business or sector
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Education
Date
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responsibilities
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
From October 1996 to November 2002
Forestry expert
Studying, analyzing and planning for forest ecosystem management,
farm/agroforestry, and soil and water conservation projects to
rehabilitate degraded environment and improve of people's livelihoods
Commission for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Rehabilitation
of Southern Administrative Region of Ethiopia (Co-SAERSAR), P O Box
925, Awassa, Ethiopia
Rural development
Education and training
Date
Title of qualification awarded
From October 2009 to June 2013
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Agriculture (with Magna cum Laude)
Name and type of organization University of Hohenheim
providing education and training 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
Title of qualification awarded
Name and type of organization
providing education and training
Date
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Name and type of organization
providing education and training
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Name and type of organization
providing education and training
Date
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Name and type of organization
providing education and training
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Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Tropical Forestry
Wageningen University
P O Box 9101
6700 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands
From October 1992 to July 1996
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Forestry (with Distinction)
Alemaya University of Agriculture
P O Box 138
Dire Dawa
Ethiopia
16-22 September 2012
Certificate in Environmental Governance
African Good Governance Network, DAAD-supported association of
Africans Educated in Germany
Contact: Heike Martin, DAAD Section 412
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
German Academic Exchange Service
Kennedyallee 50
53175 Bonn
Postfach 20 04 04
53134 Bonn, Germany
August 2012
Certificate in Global Environments: Socio-ecological Interactions in a
Dynamic World
Global Environments Summer Academy, Rachel Carson Center for
Environment and Society, University of Munich
Contact: Dr. Gary Martin
Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 418
D-80802 Munich, Germany
E-mail: gary.martin@carsoncenter.lmu.de
Date
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providing education and training
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providing education and training
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providing education and training
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providing education and training
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28 May 2 June 2012
Certificate in Economy and Governance
African Good Governance Network, DAAD-supported association of
Africans Educated in Germany
Contact: Heike Martin, DAAD Section 412
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
German Academic Exchange Service
Kennedyallee 50
53175 Bonn
Postfach 20 04 04
53134 Bonn, Germany
6-10 March 2012
Certificate in Interstate Conflicts
African Good Governance Network, DAAD-supported association of
Africans Educated in Germany
Contact: Heike Martin, DAAD Section 412
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
German Academic Exchange Service
Kennedyallee 50
53175 Bonn
Postfach 20 04 04
53134 Bonn, Germany
January 2012
Certificate in Intercultural Competence
Center for Development Research
Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF)
University of Bonn
Walter-Flex-Str. 3
53113 Bonn, Germany
From 16-26 July 2008
Certificate in Forest Landscape Restoration in North-East Africa
Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources
Hawassa University
P O Box 128
Shashemene, Ethiopia
and
Viikki Tropical Resources Institute
Department of Forest Sciences
P.O. Box 27
(Latokartanonkaari 7)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Date
Title of qualification awarded
Name and type of organization
providing education and training
4-6 December 2007
Certificate in Working Effectively at the Interface of Forest Science and
Forest Policy
Forestry Research Network for Sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA)
and
IUFRO’s Special Programme for Developing Countries
IUFRO Headquarters
Mariabrunn (BFW)
Hauptstrasse 7
A-1140 Vienna, Austria
Date
From 20 September 2004 in Sweden and 9-18 March 2005 in South
Africa
Title of qualification awarded
Certificate in Development of National Forest Policies and Strategies
Name and type of organization
providing education and training
National Board of Forestry
Skogsstyrelsen
SE- 551 83 Jönköping, Sweden
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s)
Hadiya
Other language(s)
Self-assessment
Understanding
European level (*)
Listening
Proficient
user
Speaking
Reading
Spoken
interaction
Proficient
Proficient
C1
user
user
Writing
Spoken
production
Proficient
C1
user
C1
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user
English
C1
French
A1 Basic user
A1 Basic user A1
Basic user
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Basic
user
German
A2 Basic user
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Basic user
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user
C1
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Social skills and competences
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competences
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Computer skills and competences
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Good adaptability to multicultural environments, developed through
long-term and short-term educational and experience sharing stays
abroad
Good communication skills gained through my experience as a
teacher, advisor and vice head of a university college
Team spirit, obtained through my experience of works in research
teams and special task commissions
Leadership – I worked as a registrar, department head, and
coordinator of departments with a total number of about 250
employees for five years
Good experience in project and team management
Good command of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Good knowledge of SPSS application (through training and use for
the PhD research data analysis)
Additional information
Publications
- Girma, Kelboro 2013. Unraveling the parks and people dichotomy:
local interests and conflicts in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia.
Margraf Publishers. Weikersheim, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-82361661-0
- Girma Kelboro, Till Stellmacher and Volker Hoffmann (2013).
‘Conservationists’ and ‘Local People’ in Biodiversity Conservation:
the Case of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of
the Social Sciences and Humanities 9(1):29-55.
- Girma Kelboro and Till Stellmacher (2012). Contesting the National
Park theorem? Governance and land use in Nech Sar National
Park, Ethiopia. ZEF Working Paper 104. Bonn, Germany.
- Mesele Negash and Girma Kelboro (2014). Effects of
socioeconomic status and food consumption pattern on
household energy uses: Implications to forest resources
degradation around Wondo Genet Catchments, south-central
Ethiopia. East African Social Science Research Review 30(1): xxxx. (forthcoming)
- Girma Kelboro & Till Stellmacher. Protected areas as contested
spaces: Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia, between 'local people',
the state, and NGO engagement. Journal of Environmental
Management. (peer-reviewed positively)
Presentations in conferences and workshops
- Girma Kelboro (2012). Biodiversity conservation and livelihood
conflicts in Africa: the case of protected area governance in
Ethiopia. Paper presented in the African Good Governance
Network Summit on Environmental Governance, 16-22 September
2012. Freiburg, Germany.
- Girma Kelboro (2012). Governance of Protected Areas in Ethiopia:
the Case of Nech Sar National Park. A paper presented in
Research Café of Global Environments Summer Academy, 16
August 2012. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,
Munich, Germany.
- Girma Kelboro (2012). Working at the people-wildlife interface in
East Africa: discourses and dilemmas in governing protected
areas in Ethiopia. Planet under Pressure 2012: New Knowledge
towards Solutions, 26-29 March 2012, London, UK. (poster)
- Girma Kelboro, Till Stellmacher and Volker Hoffmann (2012).
Bridging the researcher-people knowledge gap in biodiversity
conservation: the case of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia.
Tropentag 2012, September 19-21, Göttingen, Germany. (poster)
- Girma Kelboro and Till Stellmacher (2011). Protected area
governance: lessons learned from NGO endeavours in Nech Sar
national park, Southern Ethiopia. Tropentag 2011, October 5 - 7,
Bonn, Germany. (poster)
- Girma Kelboro (2006). The basis for community-based woodland
resource management interventions in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia.
A paper presented in the DAAD Workshop (June 8-15), Wondo
Genet College of Forestry & Natural Resources, Ethiopia.
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Girma Kelboro (2005). Intrinsic worth and dilemma of
interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and disciplinary approaches in
education and research. In: Proceedings of a seminar organized by
Center for Environment and Society, Hawassa University (January 1415, 2005), Awassa, Ethiopia. (paper)
Girma Kelboro (2004). Community-based Nature Conservation,
Ecotourism, and Conflict Management. In a workshop organized by
Tourism and Transport Bureau in Cooperation with SNV in Southern
Region of Ethiopia Yirgalem, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2004. (paper)
Professional membership
- African Good Governance Network
- African Forest Forum
- Ethiopian Forestry Society
Award
- DAAD scholarship award in 2009 for PhD study in Germany
- University Fellowships award in 1998 for MSc study in the
Netherlands
- Gold medal award in 1996 for an outstanding academic record at
graduation with a BSc degree in Forestry from Alemaya University of
Agriculture, Ethiopia
References
- Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Volker Hoffmann
Agricultural Communication and Extension (430a)
Schloss, Museumsflügel, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
E-mail: Volker.Hoffmann@unihohenheim.de
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Dr. Till Stellmacher
Senior Researcher
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany
E-mail: t.stellmacher@uni-bonn.de
Tel. +49 (0) 228 / 73-4907
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Dr. Gary Martin
Director of Global Diversity Foundation, and Global Environments
Summer Academy
Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 418, D-80802 Munich, Germany
E-mail: gary@global-diversity.org