Surname: 
Ongugo
Other names: 
Paul Othim
Title of the expert: 
Mr.
Expertise: 
Business, Policy, Social Economics and Development Studies
Research grade: 
Assistant Director and National Co-ordinator, Natural Forests Research Programme, KEFRI - Director, International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research program in Kenya
Contact info: 

Paul Othim Ongugo
Mailing Address
Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)
P. O. Box 20412, NAIROBI, 00200
Kenya
Telephone (Office General Lines)+254-722 157414, +254 20 2010651/2, +254 734 251 888
Cell Phone: +254-722-820660
E-mail: paulongugo@live.com
ongugopaul@gmail.com
paulongugo80@yahoo.co.uk
pongugo@kefri.org

Institution information: 

Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)

Educational background: 

A PhD. finalist at the University of East Anglia, School of Development Studies specializing in development policies in natural resource management (2008)

M.Sc. Forestry and Agriculture from University of Helinski specializing in Business and Social Economics, 1985.

B.Sc. Forestry, University of Nairobi, 1980

Current research: 

Research on policy governance

Featured publications: 
(2002) Livelihoods, Natural Resource Entitlements and Protected Areas: A case study of Mt. Elgon Forest in Kenya. (2002) Forest Degradation Intensity: Exemplification of Spatial Variable by Cut Stumps and Latent Regeneration. A case study of Ramogi Hill Forest (2004) The Impact of Decentralisation Policy on Forest resources in Kenya (2005) The Impact of Internal Displacements on Forest condition in Kenya (2006) Emerging New Institutions in Participatory Forest Management (PFM) in Kenya (2007) Kenya Forests Act. 2005. Is It an Incentive or a Disincentive to Community Involvement in Forest Management in Kenya? (2008) (Forthcoming): Security of Tenure in Natural Resource Management: An Insight into Property Rights in Kenya; Internal Human Conflicts, Forest Conservation and Sustainable Development: The Case of Five Forests in Kenya; Exclusion, Poverty and Inequality in Decentralized Kenyan Forests: Bridging the Divide with Emily Obonyo-Kamau.