Title: Mr.

Name: Fasco Idfonce Chengula

Institute of Resource Assessment

Position: Assistant Lecturer

Current Summarized CV/Profile

I am an Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA), University of Dar Es Salaam and Doctoral researcher at the University of Roehampton London United Kingdom. My Doctoral research ( currently at examination stage ) work titled “Knowing weather and climate, strengthening rural livelihoods: the role of Indigenous knowledge of weather and climate in agro-fishing communities in coastal Tanzania”, is being carried out in Mafia archipelago in Tanzania. I have previously been engaged in research broadly across Climate Change and Livelihoods issues and Indigenous and local knowledge systems. I have also provided consultancy services on a wide range of issues including Socioeconomic Baseline and livelihood studies, Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) reviews and assessments, Social and Resettlement services frameworks, and Livelihood Restoration Plans (LRP) for Project Affected People’s (PAPs) and or communities for Project developments with direct impacts on social and economic and ecological systems. Recent Clients include: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP); Paulsam Geo-engineering Limited (Consultance partners); Africa Forestry Investment Platform (AFIP) based in Singapore; MFC Social & Environmental Performance Ltd. (MFC) based in Ottawa, Canada; Digby Wells Environmental (South Africa and Tanzania Branch); Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)- United States and Tanzania country offices, Nyanzaga Gold Mine Company Limited and various national government agencies and Authorities.

Professional Details

Bachelor: Dar

Masters: Dar

PhD: London (in progress)

Specialised areas of teaching: Climate Change Adaptation (Vulnerability, Resilience and Governance), Weather and Climate Services, Natural Resource Management and Environmental Anthropology 

Research interests: Utilizing Anthropological and Social Science research approaches to understand the complex relationships between humans and their environments particularly how Societies shape and are shaped by the environments we live in (e.g., Climate Change and biophysical/ecosystems resource,) and their implications Development on ethical, inclusive, and sustainable socio-economic growth and ecological integrity

Recent projects

1. LICCI Project (Co-Researcher) – Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts: the contribution of local knowledge to climate change research –a European Research Council (ERC) funded project hosted at University of Barcelona (2018-2023). Partnering (representing Tanzania) with other 40 researchers worldwide The project aims to bring indigenous and local knowledge to climate change research by providing data on local perceptions of climate change impacts on climatic (e.g. rainfall patterns change), physical (e.g sea level rise), biological (e.g., phenological changes), and socioeconomic systems (livelihoods, cultural and demographic patterns change) that determine and influence the socio economic and demographic distribution of local climate change impacts indicators at both local and Global scale

 https://licci.eu/Fasco-I-Chengula/

1. “Rising from the Depths” protecting and utilizing marine cultural heritage of East Africa for Sustainable development of coastal communities. Rising from the Depths Network aims to identify how the tangible submerged and coastal Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar, and its associated intangible aspects can stimulate ethical, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth in the region, of benefit to building social cohesion and reducing poverty.

https://risingfromthedepths.com/fasco-i-chengula/

Recent publications

1. Liwenga, E.T., Ndaki, P., Chengula, F. and Kalokola, R. (2019) Coastal Communities’ Perceptions on Climate Change Impacts and Implications for Adaptation Strategies in Mtwara, Southern Tanzania. In: Yanda, P.Z., Bryceson,I., Mwevura, H.and Mung’ong’o, C.G.(Eds.) Climate Change and Coastal Resources in Tanzania Studies on Socio-Ecological Systems’ Vulnerability, Resilience and Governance. © Springer Nature Switzerland
2. Chengula F, Nyambo B (2017). Dissemination of agricultural weather forecasts under weather and climate variability: a case of the smallholder farmers in Moshi rural District, Tanzania. International Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 3(1): 048-057.
3. Chengula F, Nyambo B (2016). The significance of indigenous weather forecast knowledge and practices under weather variability and climate change: a case study of smallholder farmers on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. International Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2(2): 031-043.

Membership and Registration

Councils/Boards/Committees: IRA Security Committee

Important Contribution

Patents, major awards, prizes, projects and other recognition

2020-2023: LICCI fellowship Award: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, under the auspicious of the ‘’Local Indicators of Climate Change Impact (LICCI)’’ a European Union funded Project.

1. 2017/2018: ITP fellowship Award: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), Sweden through Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

1. 2013-2015: Graduate Research Fellowship Award: International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (Icipe), Nairobi Kenya, through the Dissertation Research Internship Programme (DRIP) and Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystem Services and Food Security in Eastern Africa (CHIESA).