Philip FRANKS

Email: phil.franks@iied.org
Phil Franks is an expert on the social dimension of natural resource management and conservation, with a particular focus on better understanding and applying social equity principles in this context. His particular expertise and experience lies in conservation and human-wellbeing/poverty, natural resource governance, REDD+, and climate-smart agriculture, especially in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, DRC, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ghana, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. He is currently working on the development of stakeholder-led methods for assessing the social impacts of protected areas and their governance, equity in conservation, links between conservation and development, managing trade-offs between conservation and food production in Africa, and social and environmental safeguards.