dorcas nash

I'M a graduate in Natural resources Management with 5 years experience in working with Pastoral communities on planned grazing and rangeland management and restoration and capacity building on Natural Resources Management. I have worked across counties of Laikipia,Isiolo, Marsabit and Samburu. I have passion with working with communities to  achieve a well educated and resilient communities. I am an outstanding professional who is well organized, hardworking, always thoroughly prepared, positive, enthusiastic, and intensely focused on providing quality service. Experienced in Natural resources management, community-driven conservation, monitoring and evaluation, organizational and individual capacity building

Northern Rangeland Trust - (NRT)

Rangeland co-ordinator Mount Kenya Region. - Laikipia, Kenya.                                                                      

                                                                                                                       March 2022 to Date.             

(Naibunga Central,Naibunga Upper,Naibunga Lower,Lekurruki,Ilngwesi ,Kirimon

and Ngare ndare conservancies)

• Undertake capacity-building through trainings and exposure tours targeting conservancy grazing committee, women and youth/Morans on grazing planning and rangelands management
• Facilitate dialogue within the conservancy and the neighboring conservancies to allow peaceful coexistence
• Guide conservancy managers to formulate their quarterly and yearly Rangelands work plans and Budgets
• Promote community engagement forums to improve awareness and understanding of conservation benefits within the conservancy.
• Support rangeland rehabilitation projects at the conservancy
• Support conservancies livestock follow-up during drought to encourage peaceful coexistence of livestock in other conservancies
• Strengthen conservancy grazing plan implementation and livestock movement plan
• Compile and submit regular reports to Northern Rangelands Trust and donors in a timely manner
• Perform any other duties delegated from time to time by the Regional Director

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Conservation international (CI) – Grant Awardee

Woman Fellow-       July 2022 to July 2023

• Conduct Focus group discussions in Laikipia Community Conservancies ((Naibunga Central,Naibunga Upper,Naibunga LowerLekurruki,Ilngwesi and Kirimon) on the Role of women in Rangeland Management and How climate change have impacted the roles of women in Rangelands
• Formulate and Operationalize a Women in Rangeland Management Training Curriculum
• Conduct a TOT training for the women in grazing committees in Naibunga Central,Naibunga Upper,Naibunga LowerLekurruki,Ilngwesi and Kirimon conservancies.

Northern Rangeland Trust - (NRT)

Rangeland Assistant. -.                      July 2018 to March,2022    

• Conducting grazing committee trainings, meetings and exposure tours across the NRT conservancies
• Taking lead in implementing and helping Samburu conservancies formulate their yearly Rangelands work plans and Budgets
• Conducting vegetation monitoring yearly that is transect set up, data collection and analysis
• Supporting kalama, westgate and Meibae with field-based activities and with coordination with Grevy Zebra Trust (GZT)
• Co-ordinate office-based requirements for the rangelands and wildlife teams
• To collate quarterly plans and budgets from the rangelands team
• Follow-up with NRT finance on any cash requests and plans to ensure these requests are honored
• Assist the rangelands team with organizing all logistics for field visits
• Follow-up on monthly reports
• Manage the rangeland dropbox folder
• To analyze monthly/quarterly cash requests from conservancy managers, Develop quarterly work plans with achievable deliverables and associated budgets to be submitted on time
• Prepare goal 4 communications and update where needed
• Organize the teams’ diary and prepare minutes of the department
• Attend stakeholder meetings by representing NRT
• Assist with field activities when required
• Any other duties assigned from time to time

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Northern Rangeland Trust - (NRT)

Rangelands Intern. -.                          June 2017 to July,2018

• Assist the rangelands team with organizing all logistics for field visits
• To collate quarterly plans and budgets from the rangelands team
• Follow-up with NRT finance on rangelands cash requests and plans to ensure these requests are honored
• Organize the teams’ diary and prepare minutes of the department
• Assist with field activities when required
• Conducting vegetation monitoring yearly that is transect set up, data collection and analysis
• Any other duties assigned from time to time

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Grevy Zebra Trust - (GZT)

Rangelands and Research Intern. -.                         2016 April to November,2016

• Data entry and sorting
• Prepare minutes or report for every engagement or training done
• Support women project on making of reusable pads-Nkireten project
• Support in the Great Grevy’s Rally (GGR) Census
• Assist the rangelands team with organizing all logistics for field visits
• Any other duties assigned from time to time

BSc 2013-2017: Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Management (Wildlife Management), Karatina University.

KCSE 2009-2012:                      Alliance girls’ High School

KCPE 2000-2008:                      Ntepes Primary School.