User:Hamid Marwat

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Hamid Marwat – Natural Resource Specialist - His current responsibilities include biodiversity, natural resource management and capacity building with the Environment Section of Planning & Development Division of Government of Pakistan at Islamabad. Mr. Hamid Marwat’s educational background is in forestry & biodiversity conservation, NRM, Remote Sensing & GIS. Additionally, he has taken numerous training courses in community development, biodiversity, protected areas and forest inventory/assessment, environmental impact assessment, and organizational management. He specializes in NRM and biodiversity conservation and has expertise in the planning and management of different types of natural resources in varied ecologies. He is also skilled in strategic planning for natural resource management, development planning, monitoring and evaluation, donor relation and human resources management. Mr. Marwat started his career in 1988 as a professional Forest officer with the Forest Department of the Government of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Pakistan. In his seventeen years of professional work, he worked on different assignments including interalia, forest protection/conservation and management in NWFP, forest resource inventory implying remote sensing & GIS, his dedicated work on brown bear in Deosai National Park with rural communities, expert NRM/Environment with IUCN Pakistan, etc. Marwat was the pioneer in working and introducing modern techniques like GIS & RS in forest management and planning. His work has laid the foundation for permanent GIS Lab at Forest Management Centre (FMC) that followed in Pakistan. In recognition of his pioneering on GIS, the GTZ, Germany granted him a special award for pursuing his M.Sc in NRM with specialization in GIS and remote sensing at ITC the Netherlands. Over the years, he has authored several papers and publications on the issues of biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, environment, etc.

Currently Marwat is an active member of several international and national conservation’s committees and fora.