Amanda works as a REDD+ Tenure Specialist with FAO supporting the UN-REDD Programme and its member countries to address tenure in the context of REDD+. Amanda has over 20 years of experience in the natural resources and environment sector in Asia and Africa. She is a specialist not only in resource tenure, but also in community-based natural resources management, stakeholder engagement, consultation processes, and gender assessment. Prior to joining FAO, Amanda worked in Cambodia for 14 years where she was deeply involved in tenure issues, both at the national policy level in developing supportive legislation as well as at the field level in supporting local efforts to organize consultations, meet legal requirements, and register community forestry lands. Amanda has a Masters Degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Bachelors degree from Amherst College.
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Specialist in tenure, gender and Indigenous Peoples for REDD+