Deo Namwira is currently a PhD candidate in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham working under the supervision of Dr Fiona Nunan and Dr Danielle Beswick on Institutions and Fisheries Livelihoods in Developing Countries. He has over 20 years of experience in International Development, with expertise in programs design and management as well as capacity building as instruments of poverty reduction and sustainable development. He has worked on a range of humanitarian, disaster, emergency, conflict resolution and development projects with several NGOs, local and international, both in Africa and in Canada. The international nature of his work has allowed him to visit professionally more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America, acquiring training, experience and exposure on several key International Development issues, as well as offering workshops in planning, monitoring and evaluations of development interventions