Joy Apiyo Obando
PROJECT ASSISTANT
Kenyatta University
Department of Geography
P. O. Box 43844
GPO 00100 NAIROBI, KENYA
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Phone (office): +254 (0) 20 8 71 09 01 19, Ext 57321
Phone (mobile): +254 7 22 96 61 34
Education
PhD (Geomorphology): 1992–1997, University of London, UK
MSc.(Geography): 1988-1990, Kenyatta University, Kenya
BEd (Sc) (Geography and Mathematics): 1983-1986, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Experience and Achievements
Senior Lecturer at Department of Geography, Kenyatta University
2010: Country Advisor for the
Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) assessing proposals
2007 – 2010: Team Leader and Chair
of 17 Research Project teams for the “Natural Resources Management” of the
Lake Victoria Research (VICRES) Initiative Projects management by the
Inter University Council of East Africa (IUCES) and funded by
SIDA/SAREC
under theme: “Natural Resources Management and Planning in Lake Victoria
Basin”
2009: IGAD Food Security and Risk Management
Programme: Regional Disaster Risk
Management Research Capacity for IGAD Member
States: Republic of Djibouti,
The Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya
2009:
Commission for Higher Education (CHE)
Enhancing Sustainable Water Resource
Management for Food Security: A Case Study of Bwathonaro Catchment, Kenya
2008:
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) funded project on: Enhancing
Adaptive Capacity of Pastoralist
Communities to Climate Change induced vulnerabilities:
Case studies of Turkana
and Mandera Districts in Kenya
2006: Lake
Victoria Research Initiative (VICRES) Research Grant Under the
Inter University Council for Eastern Africa (IUCEA) with Swedish International Aid Agency
(SIDA)
for research on Effects of Land Use
Changes in Lake Victoria Transboundary River Basins on Livelihoods and
Environmental Health: The Case of Mara and
Sio River Basins
Memberships National Secretary General, Kenya
DAAD Scholars Association (KDSA) 2006-2010
Vice-President, Association of
African Women Geoscientists (AAWG) 2004 - present
Member, University Network for
Disaster Risk Reduction (UNEDRA)
Member, Network on Integrated
Watershed Management in Eastern Africa (IWMNET)
Member, Kenyatta University Almuni
Association (KUAA)
Research and Publications
Bamutaze, Y., Tenywa, M.M.,
Majaliwa, M.J.G, Vanacker, V., Bagoora, F., Magunda, M., Obando, J., Ejiet Wasige, J.E. 2009. Infiltration characteristics
of volcanic sloping soils
on Mt. Elgon, Eastern Uganda. Catena 2009.09.006
Obando, J.A. 2008. Reflections
on Challenges and Prospects of Geographical
Research for Development of Africa.
Chemichemi, International Journal of School
of Humanities and Social Sciences
5(1): 136-146
Makalle, M.P., Obando, J., Bamutaze, Y. 2008.
Effects of Land use practices on
livelihoods in the transboundary catchments of
the Lake Victoria Basin African Journal of
Environmental Science and Technology
2(10): 309-317
Obando, J. A. 2005. Modelling
Soil Erosion and Vegetation Change.
FWU Water Resources Publications, Volume No:
03 / 2005, ISSN No. 1613-1045
Obando, J.A. 2005. A Catchment
model for runoff and sediment yield.
Chapter 14 in Jansky, L., Haigh, M.J. and
Prasad, H.
Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources: Research from Africa
and Asia
Batterbury, S.P.J., Behnke,
R. H., Doll, P. M., Ellis, J.E., Harou, P. A., Lynam, T.J.P.,
Mtimet, A., Nicholson, S.E., Obando, J.A. and
Thornes, J.B., 2003.
Responding to Desertification at the National Scale:
Detection, Explanation and
Responses Chapter 19 in Reynolds, J.F., and D.M. Stafford Smith (eds). “Global
Desertification: Do Humans Cause Deserts?” Dahlem Workshop Series, Dahlem University Press, Berlin
Obando, .J.A. 2002. The Impact
of Land Abandonment on Regeneration of Semi-natural
Vegetation: A Case Study
from the Guadalentin Regional Studies. Chapter 19,
in Geeson, N.A. Brandt, J,
and Thornes, J. B. (Eds.). Mediterranean Desertification:
A Mosaic of Processes and Responses. MEDALUS II. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd
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