Joanes Odero

I am a multidisciplinary Environmental and Solid Waste Specialist with over ten (10) years of regional experience across Sub-Saharan Africa's solid waste management and circular economy, WASH, and climate action infrastructure projects. I have proven expertise in managing prefeasibility and feasibility studies for solid waste management, including multi-country team coordination, stakeholder engagement, budgeting, preparing terms of reference and contracts, as well as Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) integration. My recent experience includes four (4) years in international development consultancy assignments as an environmentalist and solid waste management specialist within programme management unit of the Clean Oceans Project Identification and Preparation (COPIP) at Tetra Tech International Development. This allowed me to develop a broad range of technical skills across the solid waste management infrastructure project lifecycle. I am Fluent in English and Swahili, with field experience in Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, and Gambia.