OverviewPosition/Job Title
Senior Researcher, Member of the UNCCD CSO Panel for Asia
Senior Researcher, Member of the UNCCD CSO Panel for Asia
Institution/Organization
Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (Cenesta)
Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (Cenesta)
Speaker Bio
Nahid Naghizadeh works at CENESTA as Senior Research Associate. Her expertise is Human Geography and Land-use Planning. She has over 19 years of field experiences and actively involved in more than 30 projects with indigenous nomadic pastoralists and local Communities of Iran to advocate their rights over their territories and natural resources, co-management of natural resources and recognition of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs). Since 2007 she has been involved with Drynet network, and has been co-chair of Drynet during 2015-2017 and now is the member of the Board of Drynet. Since September 2018, she is member of Steering Committee of “World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists (WAMIP)” for West Asia.She actively has been involved in the UNCCD process since 2009 and in January 2020, she has been elected as member of the UNCCD CSOs Panel for Asia (2020-2021), https://b2n.ir/300296.
Nahid Naghizadeh works at CENESTA as Senior Research Associate. Her expertise is Human Geography and Land-use Planning. She has over 19 years of field experiences and actively involved in more than 30 projects with indigenous nomadic pastoralists and local Communities of Iran to advocate their rights over their territories and natural resources, co-management of natural resources and recognition of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs). Since 2007 she has been involved with Drynet network, and has been co-chair of Drynet during 2015-2017 and now is the member of the Board of Drynet. Since September 2018, she is member of Steering Committee of “World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists (WAMIP)” for West Asia.She actively has been involved in the UNCCD process since 2009 and in January 2020, she has been elected as member of the UNCCD CSOs Panel for Asia (2020-2021), https://b2n.ir/300296.
Currently, Nahid is doing her PhD dissertation on “Land Governance Assessment in Customary Territory of Indigenous Nomadic Pastoralists— a case study within one of the nomadic pastoralist’s territories of Iran.