co-director

David Annandale

David is an international environmental policy specialist, and senior partner at DDA. He has 35 years of experience in the public, private, and NGO sectors. For 13 years, David was an academic at Murdoch University in Australia, finishing up as Dean of the School of Environmental Science.

Since 2005 he has been an independent international environmental policy consultant, working for clients such as ADB, African Development Bank, AIIB, Inter-American Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, European Investment Bank, World Bank, IFAD, FAO, IUCN, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, UN Women, UNICEF, UNOPS, UN REDD,  Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility, Global Fund for Coral Reefs, Central African Forests Initiative, Mercy Corps International, Save the Children International, Conservation International,  commercial banks in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, and DANIDA.

His substantive expertise includes designing safeguards frameworks linked to development finance; environmental impact assessment for a range of project types; strategic environmental assessment; evaluation; REDD+; project due diligence; and climate change.

Education

University of Western Australia
PhD., Organizational Behaviour

University of Virginia
M.A., Public Administration

Murdoch University
BSc., Environmental Science

co-director

Darko Annandale

Mr Darko Annandale is a Co-Director and Social and Environmental Policy Specialist at DDA. He has extensive experience in advising public and private clients on balancing economic, environmental and social considerations and  leading the development and application of appropriate institutional environmental safeguard policies, ensuring that clients deliver on international principles of social and environmental sustainability.  He has delivered numerous capacity building workshops for public and private practitioners on social and environmental assessment methodologies.

He has over seven years’ experience in assessing and managing the environmental, health and social risks, impacts and opportunities associated with equity investments (including OTC), fungible/non-fungible debt, bonds, and guarantees. He has worked on development projects across the full range of economic sectors and in scores of countries (over 30)  for both public and private clients.  These projects range from lending/investing in micro, small and medium enterprises to large scale/mega-projects in the extractives, transport and energy sectors. More recently, with a focus on renewables and on financial institutions (small investment funds to large well-known multinationals). He has provided advice and guidance on a diverse range of issues including the protection of endangered species and critical habitat, labour and rights-based issues, resettlement, management of construction impacts, indigenous peoples and cultural heritage issues.

TEAM

EXTERNAL ASSOCIATES

John Horberry

John Horberry has over 40 years experience working in the field of Environmentally Sustainable Development – providing services to international development agencies, financial institutions, governments and the private sector.  During this period, he has worked for a leading sustainable development think-tank - IIED, a major private consultancy firm – Environmental Resources Management, and the United Nations Environmental Programme. Much of his professional experience concerns environmental and social safeguards of international development programmes and projects. He has advised international development agencies on establishing their environmental and social safeguards systems as well as the implementation challenges. He has designed safeguards systems, prepared technical guidance, conducted training programmes and has investigated compliance issues at the country and project level. He has also worked extensively in the field of Sustainable Development Goals and the mainstreaming of environment into national policy making, developing and implementing capacity development for governments – notably as the co-director of the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI).  Recent clients have included UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, International fund for Agricultural Development, the Green Climate Fund and UK DFID.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., International Environmental Policy

University of Pennsylvania
MSc., Economic Anthropology

Magdalene College, Cambridge University
B.A. Hons, Part I Economics, Part II Social Anthropology

Specialism Areas

• Mainstreaming of environment into national policy making

• Environmental and social safeguards 

• Sustainable development goals (SDGs) 

Bruce Jenkins

Bruce Jenkins is a consultant on sustainable development, with a focus on environmental, social and governance issues. In recent years, Bruce has been the principal consultant for the development of the UN EMG’s Model Approach on Environmental and Social Standards for UN Programming and UNDP’s Social and Environmental Standards, Social and Environmental Screening Procedure, and supporting guidance materials. Bruce has undertaken and contributed to several reviews and evaluations with the Global Environment Facility, including the 2019 review of Agency compliance with the updated GEF safeguards; the 2017 GEF IEO evaluation of GEF’s safeguards; the 2016 review of GEF’s Public Information Policy and Agency policies and procedures on stakeholder engagement and information disclosure; and the 2013 review of GEF Agency compliance with the GEF safeguards policy.  He has also consulted with the World Bank, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, and the World Resources Institute, among other organizations. He was formerly the Policy Director at the Bank Information Center (BIC).

Associate

Patti Moore

Patti Moore is an environmental lawyer with more than 27 years’ international experience, working in the field of environmental law and governance across more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.  In 2010, she and a national colleague prepared the first equivalence assessment for environmental safeguards, which the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank jointly supported for Vietnam.  Since then, she has prepared forensic environmental and involuntary resettlement equivalence assessments for specific sectors in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, collaborated with national colleagues to develop assessments for environment, involuntary resettlement, and indigenous peoples in another six countries, and reviewed assessments for more than 30 additional countries. Patti has also conducted training on equivalence assessments for the Asian Development Bank. 

Education

University of Colorado
Juris Doctor

Roanoke College
B.A., Modern Languages