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PETER RICHARD GUY, Environment Project Manager
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Contact information
- Bangladesh Environmental Management Project, Poribesh Bhaban,
E-16, Agargaon, Shere Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh Tel +880 (11)
805-838; Fax +880 (2) 882-3516
- Email: peterguy@doe-bd.org
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page last updated
02 Jan 2006
EDUCATION
Postgraduate Fellowship, studies at Utah State University, Logan, Utah
1976-1977.
M.Sc. (Tropical Resource Ecology), University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe,
1974.
B.Sc. (Honours), University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa,
1969.
B.Sc. (Botany), University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa,
1968.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Research Grants: Team leader in 1985 and 1987 on a field project
funded by Earthwatch, Watertown, Massachusetts. The research work combined
fieldwork with high-resolution satellite imagery to assess how elephants and
fire have changed the woodlands of conservation areas including game reserves in
Zimbabwe. This program involved leading teams of volunteer workers in the field
and instructing them in data collection and analytical techniques.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000 - 2001 Canadian Operations Manager, Bangladesh Environmental
Management Project, a consortium of ARA-KPMG, Halifax, and Resource Futures
International, Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Guy led and managed the delivery of Canadian and Bangladeshi consulting
services to the Bangladesh Environmental Management Project, a CAD 10.7 million
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-funded Project. This
capacity-building Project is based in the Department of Environment, Ministry of
Environment and Forest and consists of seven technical components:
- Institutional Development and Planning
- Policy and Regulatory Reform
- Environmental Management Demonstration Projects
- Environmental Initiatives Fund
- Environmental Awareness
- Resource Information Systems
- Human Resource Development
As the senior Canadian field officer on the Project, Mr. Guy's activities
included:
- Management and administration of direct Canadian inputs to the Project,
including staffing, capital and equipment;
- Facilitation of equipment procurement within Bangladesh;
- Coordination, preparation and submission of annual and quarterly
performance assessment reports, quarterly disbursement forecasts, monthly
invoices;
- Annual and semi-annual work plans, using CIDA's Results-Based Management
approach for reporting purposes; and
- Coordination and liaison activities between all Project participants and
stakeholders. Duties included liaison with CIDA, BEMP field advisors
and staff, and the Canadian High Commission. He collaborated closely
with the DOE Project Director in the management and administration of
overall Project operations, and acted as an ex-officio member of the Project
Management Steering Committee.
Specific responsibilities:
- Team Leader for the Institutional Planning and Development component,
directing and coordinating with the Bangladeshi Project Director and Working
Group all activities of this component, from review of the existing DOE
institutional framework through to the design of new institutional and
operational frameworks including a five-year strategic plan and annual
tactical plans, to the development and delivery of training and performance
measurement systems.
- Team Leader for the Environmental Initiatives Fund Component, planning and
coordinating with the Bangladeshi Project Director and Working Group all
activities of this component, including design, promotion and implementation
of the fund, selection of partners and training of DOE staff.
- Providing administrative and Project participant liaison support to all
other components of BEMP, both in a proactive sense as the COM and in a
reactive sense on an as-needed basis when requested by individual component
team leaders
- Establishing and maintaining effective management, financial and
administrative systems;
- Ensuring efficient and effective communications between all team members,
partner agencies, other donors and organizations;
- Identifying, negotiating, contracting and managing Canadian and
Bangladeshi consultants providing short term technical assistance to the Project;
and
- Leading the quarterly and annual budgeting, expenditure reporting and work
planning and progress reporting processes.
1996 - 1999 Canadian Project Manager, Vietnam-Canada Environment
Project, a consortium of ESSA Technologies, Vancouver, and SNC-Lavalin,
Montreal, Canada
Mr. Guy planned, implemented, and managed all in-country Project activities
related to the three core components of this four-year CAD 10 million Canadian
International Development Agency-funded Project:
- Environmental monitoring,
- Industrial pollution management
- Urban pollution management
- Environmental impact assessment.
Vietnamese participation was coordinated by MOSTE ( Ministry of Science,
Technology and Environment). The key Vietnamese counterpart institutions
were NEA (National Environment Agency), and the DOSTEs (Departments of Science,
Technology and Environment) of Ha Noi, Hai Phong, and Da Nang cities, and of
Binh Duong province. Project activities were concentrated in these four
geographic areas and within the NEA. Other participants in the Project were the
municipal/provincial People's Committees, the Ministry of Planning and
Investment., the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Construction, and the
Office of Government.
Specific responsibilities included:
- Establishing and maintaining effective management, financial and
administrative systems
- Ensuring efficient and effective communications between all partner
agencies, other donors and organizations relevant to the Project
- Providing substantive, expert input to all three components of the Project
- Arranging, participating in and recording all Project management meetings
- Ensuring the integration of gender considerations in all elements of the Project
- Identifying, negotiating, contracting and managing Canadian and Vietnamese
consultants providing short term technical assistance to the Project
- Leading the quarterly and annual budgeting, expenditure reporting and work
planning and progress reporting processes
- Assisting with internal Project reviews, evaluations, financial audits and
monitoring
- Identifying and reporting on opportunities for the second phase of the Project
- Working closely with CIDA personnel and projects, and other ODA projects
in Viet Nam.
1994 - 1995 Project Director, Philippines Environment and Resource
Management Project, (Phase 2), School for Resource and Environmental Studies,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 1989 - 1994 Project Team Leader for Phase
1
Mr. Guy was responsible for the development and delivery of substance,
management and administrative services including budgeting, accounting and
reporting; logistical, support and communication services; library services and
publications; and general administration of two Canadian International
Development Agency-funded linkage projects between Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Canada, and the Institute of Environmental Science and Management
(IESAM) of the University of the Philippines at Los Baņos (UPLB).
These two Projects - Phase 1 with a budget of CAD 4.9 million and Phase 2
with a budget of CAD2.4 million - were designed to strengthen environment
and resource management in the Philippines, to enhance UPLB's contribution to
environment and natural resource policy formulation and implementation and to
promote linkages between Filipino and Canadian academic institutions for long
term mutual benefit.
Specific responsibilities included:
- Establishing and maintaining effective management and administrative
systems including responsibility for all project financial management;
- Supervising and working with the co-ordinators of the community-based
resource management oriented development action programs and extension
components, and co-ordinating the academic, policy advisory and
environmental information management components;
- Participating in the development and implementation of training workshops,
seminars and IESAM's curricular development activities, including teaching
environmental impact assessment (EIA) university level courses;
- Developing policies and analysing policy issues by working closely with
Government personnel at the national, provincial, municipal and community
levels;
- Recruiting and supervising project staff, Canadian advisors, faculty and
students;
- Leading the quarterly and annual budgeting, financial reporting and work
planning processes;
- Working closely with CIDA personnel and projects, and other ODA projects
in the Philippines.
1980 - 1989 Supervising Biologist, Resources Department, Monenco
Consultants Limited, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Mr. Guy managed, co-ordinated, and supervised over 25 multi-disciplinary
development projects for a wide range of clients across Canada and
internationally, including private sector and non-governmental organizations as
well as provincial and federal governments.
Specific responsibilities included:
- Functioning as part of integrated environmental and engineering planning
teams;
- Conducting environmental impact assessments involving the evaluation of
the effects of resource developments and the formulation of impact
mitigation plans for the energy, mining, chemical, and agricultural
industries;
- Participating in public consultations;
- Appearing as an expert witness at public hearings;
- Assessing route and site alternatives mainly using geographic information
systems;
- Planning, initiating and working on environmental monitoring programs;
- Directing and conducting pre-development land use, vegetation and wildlife
studies;
- Preparing hazardous substance inventories for the thermal power industry;
- Carrying out reclamation studies for the coal mining and oil sands
industries;
- Writing, compiling and editing numerous technical client reports.
1970 - 1979 Wildlife Research Officer, Department of National Parks and
Wildlife Management, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Government of
Zimbabwe
Mr. Guy was responsible for park planning activities and the management of
the wildlife and its habitats in National Parks and Wildlife Reserves.
Specific responsibilities included:
- Formulating strategic policies relating to tourist use of national parks
(including locating roads, rest camps and other facilities), setting bag
limits in safari hunting areas and determining where, how and when to use
fire in management programs;
- Planning, conducting and reporting on surveys and research projects to
determine the abundance, growth rates, reproductive capacities, harvest
potentials and preferred habitat conditions of several wildlife species
including conducting aerial surveys and immobilizing and/or capturing
animals, tagging them often with radios and then plotting their movements;
- Devising methods of conserving and enhancing wildlife habitats including
coordinating capture operations of several over-abundant species, many of
which were used for restocking farms and other reserves; and building and
maintaining plots from which all large animals were excluded to determine
rates of plant growth in the absence of animals;
- Establishing herbaria and other reference collections;
- Mapping vegetation types from aerial photographs and follow up ground
truthing;
- Determining the regeneration potential and utilization of major wildlife
food species;
- Preparing comprehensive reports on the investigations conducted, including
analytical interpretation and recommendations;
- Co-operating with other agencies and government departments in developing
a comprehensive conservation plan for various regions of the country, a
program which later led to the implementation of CAMPFIRE, the
well-respected and widely known community-based management program wherein
financial and other resources feed back into the communities involved.
PUBLICATIONS
Author of more than 15 refereed scientific papers, writer/contributor/editor
of over 100 technical reports and presenter of papers at many conferences,
seminars and workshops.
MEMBERSHIPS
Member, International Society of Tropical Foresters.
REFERENCES
On request.
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