Peter O'Hara
Consultant
Qualifications
PhD (ongoing) and MPhil, 2006, focused on participatory policy processes, University of East Anglia; MSc Rural Development Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 1999; BSc Honours in Forest Management, University of Aberdeen 1994.
Peter, a Participatory Natural Resource Managment and Training Specialist at LTS has 12 years continuous relevant development work related experience, 11 years living and working outside the UK mainly in Asia and Africa. He specialises in community-based and participatory natural resource management, participatory approaches (PRA, PLA, PAR, PM&E), process planning, action research and policy work. He has extensive field experience, spending literally 100s of days in villages in various countries gaining an in-depth understanding of rural development realities and developing extensive facilitation skills in participatory approaches. He also has project team leading and management experience where he applied and developed process planning techniques in the projects he led. In terms of special skills he has been particularly effective in developing appropriate practical and successful multi-stakeholder policy processes that have also been successfully applied to conflict management. In addition he has a very successful track record in running numerous international professional training courses for 100s of development professionals from around the world on various participatory development related subjects as well as teaching university courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in participatory development related topics. He has designed, organised and facilitated national and international participatory workshops/conferences that are focussed on practical outcomes. Peter's recent work includes project management, running catered training courses on participatory approaches and action research/process planning/policy processes, monitoring and evaluation of projects, designing and facilitating international participatory workshops and working with various governments and donors to develop genuinely participatory forest policy processes. Peter provides services that are practical and almost always based on personal experience. Because of Peter's depth of practical experience and organisational skills he can be relied upon to work independently and be flexible and adapt - 'hitting the ground running' at short notice to deliver quality services, even in challenging locations.
Countries
Bhutan, China, Gambia, Greece, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
