Dr Patrick Byakagaba

Portfolio: Lead-Climate Resilience Support Centre (CRSC)

Profile

Patrick Byakagaba is a PhD holder from Makerere University. He is currently at the rank of  Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Management, School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences where he has served since 2006.  He is also the Lead- Climate Resilience Support Centre at the Africa Climate Collaborative at Makerere University in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. He also coordinates research and graduate studies at the Department of Environmental Management, Makerere University.  Most of his research is in environmental and climate Policy, climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, environmental and natural resource governance, conservation and protected area governance and policy, plantation forestry, biodiversity offsets, ecosystem services, extractives, rangeland management, savanna woodland ecology and energy.

He is a member of several professional groups such as Standards Development Group for Forest Stewardship Council in Uganda, Uganda forestry working group, the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Uganda Green Economy Learning Alliance and the Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice. He works across disciplines in the quest for innovative solutions in conservation, environmental governance, climate justice and sustainability.