Nairobi, Kenya·E&S Safeguards & ESG Consultant
Twelve years of practice managing environmental and social risk, social inclusion, and impact for institutions, companies, and communities.
About
I am an environmental and social safeguards and ESG consultant. For more than twelve years I have worked with development finance institutions, financial institutions, companies, and programme teams.
The practice has three parts. I prepare safeguards instruments and environmental and social management systems. I help organisations turn sustainability commitments into compliance, disclosure, and traceable supply chains. I design baselines, reviews, and evaluations so funders and communities can show a credible result.
What I do
I develop, implement, and monitor safeguards instruments for development finance institutions, financial institutions, and programme-level management systems. The work covers due diligence, impact assessment, action plans, grievance redress, stakeholder engagement, gender and GBV plans, and free, prior and informed consent, held to national regulation, IFC Performance Standards, the World Bank E&S Framework, and the Equator Principles.
I help companies, MSMEs, and investors turn sustainability commitments into compliance, measurable impact, and market access. Strategy and materiality, governance and KPIs, climate and nature-related risk, investor-ready disclosure, and supply-chain due diligence, including EUDR, CSDDD, IFRS S1 and S2, GRI, and TNFD.
Baselines, midline reviews, and endline evaluations so funders, implementers, and communities can demonstrate a credible outcome. Theories of change, impact measurement, and safeguards monitoring, using OECD-DAC criteria and gender-responsive methods.
Core skills
Due diligence, risk categorization, safeguards instruments, GIS and remote sensing, and management systems from design through monitoring.
Stakeholder engagement, grievance redress, GBVH risk, livelihood restoration, labour procedures, health and safety, and free, prior and informed consent.
Baseline design, survey analysis, regulatory review, technical reports, concept notes, and funder reporting.
Theories of change, monitoring frameworks, impact data, and programme evaluation.
Team leadership, government relations, subcontractor management, and safeguards training.
Sector experience
WithDevelopment finance institutions · Governments · Companies and funders
Projects
National expert · Kenya
Safeguards and stakeholder engagement for the environmental and social management framework of a 30×30 conservation initiative, with Asesoramiento Ambiental Estratégico for The Nature Conservancy.
Safeguards expert · ASAL counties
Environmental and social safeguards for De-Risking, Inclusion and Value Enhancement of Pastoral Economies, for the Kenya Development Corporation with World Bank funding.
Research & ESG lead · Machakos
With Itanya Africa Group, funded by GRP and Munich Re. Training for more than 300 farmers in regenerative agriculture, plus baseline and endline surveys, reporting, and funder relations.
Research & ESG lead · Kitui
With Itanya Africa Group, funded by Regen Trust and the Haller Foundation. Baseline surveys, training, distribution of 40 vertical gardens, reporting, and funder relations.
Qualitative researcher · East Africa
Performance evaluation of the program and its activities: interviews, interview notes, research tools, and stakeholder outreach.
Event consultant · Zimbabwe & Malawi
Stakeholder workshops for the India–Africa International Millet Pre-Conference, in Zimbabwe and Malawi, with Waridi Events for the Government of India and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.
Engagement & collaboration
I work with development finance institutions, companies, and programme teams on safeguards, ESG disclosure, and evaluations that can stand up to a funder.
