David Silakan

CLAN! Collective

David Silakan is a Community-based Based Conservation expert with over 14 years working in Community conservation in Kenya and Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique. He is yet to graduate MBA in Finance and holds a BA in Community Development Major from Daystar University, a Diploma in theology and religious studies, a Diploma in Philosophy and Religious studies from Christ the King Major Seminary, Nyeri Kenya, and has been a fellow with Collective 2050. He is currently the coordinator of Community Land Action Now! (CLAN! ) — a network with over 50 Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities whose focus is to secure tenure and human rights, building social movement through solidarity. Before joining CLAN, he coordinated PARAN Alliance a grassroots Social Movement to amplify grassroots voices, and was the lead contact with a World Bank_IIED_ Paran project “Engaging Citizenry for Socially Just Climate Action”. He has represented the alliance on different platforms, The London Climate Action Week in July 2019 and the UN Summit Climate Summit in New York representing grassroots and Indigenous Peoples. As a human rights activist, David has been at the forefront of influencing policy change by submitting petitions and memoranda on injustices against Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. His research experience includes involvement in two research studies with the United States Institute of Peace on “Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding” in northern Kenya with a focus on building community resource persons within the communities to generate evidence on drivers of conflict. The was the lead researcher with a study on Covid-19 Social Science Research Evidence Platform: “Understanding the Impacts of Covid-19 in Fragile and Conflict Affected Regions: A Case Study of Northern Kenya.

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