• PhD (Birmingham)
• MA (Sussex)
• BSc (Kent)

Fiona rejoined IDD in September 2008, after spending five years in East Africa, working on two fisheries co-management projects, funded by DFID and the EU. Her specialism in East Africa included institutional development, capacity building, policy formulation and advocacy, and HIV/AIDS in fishing communities, as well as supervising socio-economic research on Lake Victoria. Fiona continues to work on governance within fisheries and is building on this experience to coastal ecosystems.

Fiona was previously with IDD for almost 9 years, between 1994 and 2002, during which time she participated in fifteen research projects, leading six of them, in areas including understanding the relationships between poverty and the environment, natural resource management in peri-urban settings in South Asia and Africa, and governance of the environment in urban settings

My specialist area of interest is environment and natural resource management and governance, and I convene the IDD module on 'Transforming Development for Sustainability'. I also co-convene Critical Approaches to Development and Making Policy on campus and distance learning

I welcome PhD applications in the following areas:

• Natural resource management and governance
• Fisheries, poverty and co-management
• Policy formulation, analysis and evaluation in developing countries

My current supervision includes:

• Mohammed Elmontasir Salih: Access to land in Darfur, Sudan
• Duman Wau: Fair Trade and cocoa farming in Ghana
• Eleonor Chowns - co-supervisor with Robert Leurs:
• Rooba Moorghen - co-supervisor with John Raine: Analysis of outcome and impact evaluation as an instrument of policy-making within the policy-making process in the Mauritian Public Service

Research interests

• Fisheries governance, livelihoods and co-management
• Poverty and the environment
• Impact evaluation methods and approaches

Current and recent projects

• Co-Investigator, NERC/ESRC/DFID Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation programme, 'Swahili Seas', Jan 2011 - Dec 2012; supporting the development of a Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme in Gazi Bay, Kenya. Also see the website of the East African Forum Payment for Ecosystem Services for more information
• Principal Investigator, NERC / ESRC / DFID Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation programme, 'Capturing the value of coastal ecosystem services for poverty alleviation in East and Southern Africa', August, December 2010.
• Co-author of a country case study paper reviewing development aid within fisheries in Uganda since 1976, identifying lessons for development assistance, under the World Bank funded 'The political economy of fisheries reform: lessons and applications for development assistance', led by IDDRA Ltd, 2009.
• Community Development Specialist, Implementation of a Fisheries Management Plan, Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (EU funded), 2005-2008 (employed by Harewelle International Ltd.).
• Institutional and Social Development Advisor, Integrated Lake Management project, Uganda, (DFID funded) supporting the Department of Fisheries Resources and the Ministry of Local Government, Uganda, in developing and implementing an integrated approach to lake management, encompassing fisheries co-management on two lakes, 2003-2004 (employed by CARE International).

Member of the Council of the Development Studies Association (DSA) since November 2010

See my IDD blog entries

• "The Future We Want"? Let's hope it's better than that, January 2012
• 'Does Brundtland's sustainable development need a human dimension?', November 2011

Nunan, F. (2010) Mobility and fisherfolk livelihoods on Lake Victoria: Implications for vulnerability and risk, Geoforum, 41, 5, 776-785, 2010.

Nunan, F. (2010) Governance and Fisheries Co-management on Lake Victoria: Challenges to the Adaptive Governance Approach, MAST, 9, 1, 2010.

Nunan, F., Tumwebaze, R (2009) African Fisheries Development Aid: Uganda Case Study, with, for the World Bank funded 'The political economy of fisheries reform: lessons and applications for development assistance', led by IDDRA Ltd., University of Birmingham, Birmingham, August.

Nunan, F (2009) Governance and fisheries co-management on Lake Victoria: challenges to the adaptive governance approach, People and the Sea conference, Centre for Maritime Research, Amsterdam, 9-11 July.

Nunan, F (2007) Reducing poverty through fisheries co-management: Lessons from early experience in Uganda, Journal of International Development, 19, 1151-1164.

Nunan, F (2007) Managing lakes in Uganda: Lessons from integrated management through policies, structures and plans, Water Policy, 9, 253-269.

Nunan, F (2006) Planning for integrated lake management in Uganda: Lessons for sustainable and effective planning processes, Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management, 11, pp. 189-199.

Nunan, F (2006) Empowerment and Institutions: Managing fisheries in Uganda, World Development, 34, 7, 1316-1332.

Nunan, F., Devas, N (2004) 'Accessing Land and Services: Exclusion or Entitlement?', in Urban Governance, Voice and Poverty in the Developing World, by N. Devas, Earthscan.

Nunan, F (2002) Poverty and the Environment: Measuring the Links, Environment Policy Paper Issue No. 2, Environment Policy Department, Department for International Development, DFID, London.