Janet Wairagu

A strategic environmental and legal professional, excelling in conducting environmental and social impact assessments, assessing existing monitoring findings and evaluating the efficacy of mitigation measures, implementing environmental and social management systems (ESMS), carrying out environment-related consultancies such as Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIAs), Environmental Audits (EAs) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) and compiling environmental reports such as EIAs, EA and SEA. My experience has leveraged my expertise in strategic environmental assessment, natural resources for sustainable development, climate change strategy, environment planning and management, environmental and social risk management, project management, monitoring and evaluation, stakeholder engagement, legal writing as well as policy formulation. Additionally, I demonstrate strong negotiation, influencing, and entrepreneurial mindset coupled with the ability to spot opportunities.

I can also work under pressure as well as develop, build and maintain a strong partnerships with clients and strategic partners

Environmental & Resource Planning Consultants; 2020 – To Date

Repcon Associates

Duties and Responsibilities

Resettlement of project-affected people

• Land title authentication of project-affected people at the Ministry for Lands and County office for land rate payment.
• Creating a vulnerability entitlement matrix for the vulnerable affected people such as the aged and poor, the aged and ostracized, the poor single-parent homes and the child-headed households.
• Conducted census and social-economic analysis of project-affected people their housing types, water and sanitation, sources of water, and distance to social amenities such as dispensaries and latrine sanitation.
• Billing quantities aspects for the environmental monitoring consultant at the construction stage such as grievance redress mechanisms.
• Conducting stakeholder engagement analysis.
• Coordinating the census of the Project affected people (Households, businesses, structures and land).
• Coordinating Social Economic Baseline Survey census.
• Disbursing funds, and managing workshop organization in all 9 counties. 

Resettlement Action Plan Assistant

Gibb International –Africa Office; 2018 to 2020

Duties and Responsibilities

• Organized and implemented a Census Survey exercise in Mandera County for the
• Resettlement Action Plan for the Isiolo-Mandera Highway (A13).
• Managed public meetings, social economic Baseline Survey Census, fieldwork Security and logistics
• Wrote reports for the project against compliance with relevant Operation policies.

Team Liason and Communications Lead

LAPSSET Corridor

Duties and Responsibilities

• Managed and affected the project's stakeholder consultations schedule.
• Scheduled meetings between projects affected and project-relevant civil society members, government cadre, international bodies and government security teams.
• Managed team logistics for all 9 counties (states) planning meetings between the local governments authorized and team logistical circuits.
• Planned and managed Workshop planning and management in all relevant counties (Isiolo, Lamu, Marsabit, Meru, Samburu, Lodwar, Baringo and Garissa).

RAP Expert- Mombasa Northern Bypass

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducted analyses that shall detail the positive and negative effects of the development of the project on the environment, prepare the Project affected people for resettlement, hold public consultative meetings with them as well as the government, and private sector stakeholders.
• Resettlement action Plan Inventory 
• Liaised with the government stakeholder consultation Liason.
• Planned community consultation process (barazas & meeting with Deputy county commissioners, chiefs and local elders)
• Conducted direct engagement with stakeholders including local security teams, administration and communities.
• Coordinated with the multi-disciplinary design team to develop solutions that were feasible for both the design review and the stakeholder engagement objectives. 
• Engaged with communities to inform decision-making and at times, grievance redress of issues related to study activities or study proposals into the future road alignment and design.
• Provided insight into the studies’ discussions on human rights issues (including considerations of vulnerable groups) and community/trust land tenure aspects that added value to the assessment of impacts on land take and development of livelihood restoration strategies.

RAP Expert - Mombasa Dogo-Kundu

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducted analyses that shall detail the positive and negative effects of the development of the project on the environment, prepare the Project affected people for resettlement, hold public consultative meetings with them as well as the government, periphery and private sector stakeholders.
• Acted as the main contact person in the project office in Mombasa.
• Coordinated with expatriates from Japan and other project team members, as well as authorities from the local Government, including Mombasa County and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA).
• Enabled smooth and efficient operations.
• Planned community consultation process (barazas & meeting with Deputy county commissioners, chiefs and local elders).

• Masters of Arts in Sociology (Criminology and Civil Order): University of Nairobi; awaiting graduation
• Bachelor of Laws: Catholic University of East Africa; 2013

• Strategic Environmental Assessment: The Southern African Institute for Environmental 

Assessment.

• Natural Resources for Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Governance Institute

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, World Bank & SDG Academy.