Achiba Gargule

Achiba Gargule is the Longitudinal Research Coordinator for the USAID Nutrition in ASALs Within Integrated Resilient Institutions (Nawiri) Project in Kenya. Funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, the Project is a five-year, evidence-based development project in four of Kenya’s northern counties. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) leads a consortium of partners in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties, and Feinstein provides research and capacity-building support to CRS.

Achiba’s research focuses on the transformation of African pastoral systems, specializing in how pastoralists adapt to changing ecological, political, and institutional conditions that affect their lives and livelihoods. Before joining Feinstein, Achiba worked as a researcher and an advisor to academic centers, international NGOs, and government agencies, where his research covered natural resources governance, communal tenure reforms, pastoralism policy advocacy, and devolution and land administration in the ASALs — with research experience in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Uganda.

Achiba holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Sustainable Development from the University of Bern (Switzerland), an M.A. in International Political Economy from Newcastle University (U.K.), and a B.A. in Land Economics from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Achiba lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife and three children.