Member profile
Dr. Thomas ODonnell
Organization:
OMNIA Institute for Contextual Leadership
Country:
United States of America
Field(s) of expertise:
- Action plans and road maps
- Advocacy and awareness
- Agrifood systems
- Capacity development
- Children and youth
- Climate change
- Economic development
- Fisheries and aquaculture
- Food loss and waste
- Food security
- Food systems
- Gender
- Indigenous peoples
- Learning and knowledge management
- Natural resource management
- Nutrition
- Partnerships and networks
- Policies, strategies and guidelines
- Rural development
- SDGs
- Small-scale farming
I am working on:
The OMNIA Institute for Contextual Leadership trains religious and civil society leaders -- clergy and lay, women, men and young people -- to form Interfaith Peacemaker (IP) Teams. It trains them to collaborate across identities, build power, and act only on urgent, relevant, and winnable issues that arise from the ground in their communities, ensuring consistent victories.
We are working with our partner countries to initiate programs to alleviate the most pressing problems the communities identify. My work is currently focused on issue in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Uganda, and Togo where food security and climate change are prominent drivers of negative impacts.
