About Ida Hansen
I work for a South African-based NGO. The overall goal is to conserve and protect elephants and rhinos through poverty alleviation. I started as an elephant monitor primarily focused on observing and recording behaviour, human-elephant conflict mitigation, and training/educating. From there, I have become project coordinator. However, there has recently been a change in management and a shift in focus, which means I will need to focus on areas I am not familiar with - project management being one of them.
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Hi Claire,
I downloaded all the documents of the workshop as a compressed file and automatically transformed all the google docs into office formats. They seem to be working just fine but I will guess that some functions that are specific to google docs (such as extracting the information from the project plan to create a report) might have some issues since they are not linking the information from the correct source.
Hi Beth,
Could I jump on that offer as well? My workplace also only allows using Microsoft. And the report conversion feature was my favourite part of it all. Although I am also pretty sweet on the project tracker. :-)
Welcome Ida, sounds like a busy few years and interesting work! What sort of wood work do you do?
Well... I used to be in charge of elephant monitoring, HEC and mitigation, translocations etc. Now it is a lot more varied. Still everything related to elephants (and rhinos to some degree) - which usually means anything requiring knowledge on ecology, conservation, research etc.
At the moment, the NGO is partnering with local communities that are getting land back taken from them during Apartheid. So, at the moment there are a lot of negotiations. My role in this has been to do site visits to look at the overall condition of the land, existing infrastructure, size, status etc. to determine suitability for starting a reserve with elephants and rhinos or linking up with neighbouring reserves.
I would like to get a few research projects up and running, once that is sorted. I enjoy the link between academia and practical work. Taking the theory and moulding to actually work on the ground.