ESPA PROGRAMME:
Environmental Security for Poverty Alleviation - 2006-2010
Overview
The ESPA programme The ESPA programme builds upon the IES Prototype EnviroSecurity Assessments carried out in 2004-2005 which focused on Kalimantan in Indonesia, the Virunga-Bwindi region in Africa and the Mataven area in Colombia. In the new programme we continue our monitoring, mapping and GIS interface work and the development and implementation of EnviroSecurity Action Plans with respect to these eco-regions. We continue to work to ensure that the data for each of these case studies stays up-to-date and that we follow through on the implementation of the recommendations from these studies.
Since 2007, work on three additional case studies is being carried out in the DRC-Congo Basin, Horn of Africa and the Mekong River Basin.
Partners
Donors

This programme is being supported by The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
ESPA Programme Team
- Ronald A. Kingham: Programme Manager
- Jeanna Hyde Hecker: Scientific Coordinator / Project Coordinator Matavén, Colombia
- Wouter J. Veening: Coordinator Policy & International Finance / Project Coordinator Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Eric van de Giessen: Education & Empowerment Coordinator / Project Coordinator Horn of Africa & Great Lakes region
- Patrice Yamba T. Kantu: Project Coordinator DRC - Congo Basin
- Géraud de Ville: Coordinator Law & Governance / Information Officer
- Serge Bronkhorst (BILS): Law & Governance Advisor
- Wybe Douma & Frans Nelissen (T.M.C. Asser Institute): Governance Consultants
- Roshan Balakrishnan, Programme Assistant
- Silvia Benassi, Information Assistant
- Jonathan Solomon, Research Assistant
- Selamwith Zewdu, Research Assistant