AJ (Annita) Kirwa

Kirwa Annita is a PhD researcher registered at the Public Administration and Policy group (Wageningen University & Research) and hosted at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya. She holds a bachelors' degree in geography from Egerton University and a masters' degree in environmental risks and human security from United Nations University and University of Bonn, Germany. Her research is focused on the role of governance mechanisms for cross-level and cross-sector alignment in addressing trade-offs and creating synergies between the Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) in Cimate Smart Livestock (CSL) policies and projects in Kenya. She takes a global to local approach, taking efforts of development actors at the global and international level as a starting point and traces how their actions affect SDG interactions at the local level (paying close attention to policy coherence for development through mechanisms for inter-donor and inter-departmental coordination.