Evan Sampene Mensah

Evans Sampene Mensah is currently a project coordinator at Tropenbos Ghana. He is a social forester and environmental resources management expert with wide background in the area of project management, sustainable natural resources management, natural resources conflict management and facilitating multi-stakeholders ’engagements and processes. He works in organizing community forestry associations and other forms of local stakeholders’ platforms, facilitating participatory planning in order to establish conditions for legal and sustainable forest operations, supporting the adoption of sustainable alternative livelihoods that do not depend on illegal forest operations. He also worked extensively on Ghana country approaches to REDD+ Safeguards by interacting with both relevant public sector and civil society organizations at the international, national and subnational levels.