Meet Mr. Magole
Innocent Lefatshe Magole has twenty-six (26) years’ experience working within the environmental arena. In the last nineteen years, he has been working in the Okavango River Basin and on what can be considered signature environment projects in the River Basin. Firstly, between 2008 and 2010, He worked as Deputy National Project Coordinator for the GEF funded BIOKAVANGO Project, whose primary goal was mainstreaming biodiversity conservation in the production sectors of the Okavango Delta. This project is considered one of the most well managed and well implemented GEF projects. He also worked as Deputy Coordinator for the EU funded Defragmenting African Resource Management (DARMA) Project that covered five SADC countries (Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia & Zimbabwe). The goal of DARMA was to develop scientific networks able to take the ecosystem approach to managing exploited resources and linking this network to policy makers and local communities dependent upon the resources. He also worked as Livelihoods Coordinator for the USAID funded Southern Africa Regional Environmental Program that focused on the conservation and sustainable utilization of the Cubango-Okavango River Basin (Angola, Botswana and Namibia).
Furthermore, he served as the local consultant in the preparation of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) Integrated Development Plan (IDP) for the Botswana component, which was prepared together with a team from Peace Parks Foundation in South Africa.
His most recent assignment was as the National Project Coordinator for the GEF funded Ngamiland Sustainable Land Management Project whose objective is mainstreaming sustainable land management practices on agricultural landscapes in Ngamiland District.
Mr. Magole holds a Master’s Degree in Wildlife Management from Reading University (UK) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Environmental Science from University of Botswana.
He is accredited to the Botswana Environmental Assessment Practitioners Association (BEAPA) as a practicing Environmental Consultant. He has served on several Boards including the BEAPA Board and Forest Conservation Botswana.
