Remmy Lema is a Tanzanian man, born in 1984 in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region. Mr Lema is a Master’s degree holder of Biodiversity Conservation from the University of Dar es Salaam and a Bachelor degree of Science in Wildlife Management from the Sokoine University of Agriculture. He has demonstrated practical experience in working with different donor-funded projects and perform multiple roles which include fundraising, formulating and operating M&E systems,    and coordinating project activities. Through on job training and working experiences, Mr Lema managed to acquire extensive knowledge and skills in Project Cycle Management (PCM) including, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), and being able to provide technical and project management support to implementing team to ensure quality and timely delivery of the intended project results.

Remmy Lema has facilitation skill and demonstrated the ability to build capacity to project team in the development and making use of monitoring and data collection tools, for a smooth understanding of project performance, observation of changes, regular on-going assessment and routine reflection, feedbacking and lessons sharing. He also has proven expertise and practical experience in results-based performance management and reporting.

From August 2018 Mr Lema has been working as a Programs M&E Manager under the Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition. Past, Mr Lema worked as a Senior Program Officer under the Lawyers Environmental Action Team in a USAID funded project aiming at increasing Citizens Participation in Government Oversight in Natural Resources Management (CEGO-NRM) being implemented in Iringa and Mufindi Districts in Iringa Region. Furthermore, under my supervision CEGO project produced information, education and communication materials (IEC) to share the project learning and achievements to the various project stakeholders.  Also, Mr Lema successfully coordinated the end term CEGO project evaluation. Under LEAT also Mr Lema designed the implementation modality for the Shared Resources Joint Solution Initiative (SRJS) which is currently being implemented in Rukwa and Katavi Regions. Under this initiative, I conducted stakeholder analysis which came out with various players operating within the landscape including those who are operating within the SAGCOT (Ihemi) clusters.   Also, I conducted the policy context analysis for the investors within the landscape including miners, farmers, pastoralists to observe the environmental needs compliance as per the rules and regulation which is under the initiative strategic objective two of responsible investments.

Past, Mr Lema worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer under WWF-Tanzania freshwater program (Great Ruaha River Water Program) in Iringa, Njombe and Mbeya Regions program aiming at ensuring the perennial flow of the Great Ruaha River. During this tenure as one of my roles, I participated in the stakeholder’s identification and mapping within the program landscape to understand their interest, influence and impacts they have on the water resources management within the area of interest. Also, Mr Lema facilitated the smooth engagement of the identified stakeholders including thorough follow up of the environmental compliance needs to the stakeholders, as a way of ensuring the compliance Mr Lema designed an investor’s commitment and action monitoring tool which was used to spearhead the follow-up process. Also, Mr Lema worked with Tanzania Forest Conservation Network (MJUMITA) as a southern highlands zonal coordinator (Iringa, Njombe and Mbeya) under the forest justice project.

For the past six years, Mr Lema did an extensive job in project management, information gathering, documenting, analyzing, report writing and therefore being able to demonstrate hands-on experience with planning of the project activities and its implementation, dealing with quantitative and qualitative data, conducting M&E though making use of  participatory methodologies, report writing and sharing of the lessons learnt.