Vivianti Rambe

B.App.Sci. (Univ. of Western Sydney); M.A. (Univ. of Sussex)

Vivi Rambe is an environmental specialist with a great passion for community development in rural areas of Indonesia. She is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate, working as part of a wider comparative ARC Discovery project “Social Capital, Natural Resources and Local Governance in Indonesia” .

The (working) title of her thesis is “Reinventing the Keys to a Sustainable Rural Development: Diversity and Complexity in Mainstreaming Natural Resources Management within Community Driven Development Programs in Sulawesi, Indonesia”. The aim of the study is to critically analyse the contribution of social capital building approaches to local governance and sustainable Natural Resources Management (NRM); as well as to investigate the underlying causes of the success/failure of the World Bank program for mainstreaming environmental and natural resources management into community driven development initiatives in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

For the last thirteen years, environmental and natural resources management have been the area of her major interests. She also has an extensive ten (10) years of working experience with the World Bank office in Jakarta as an environmental specialist, responsible for the quality of environmental safeguards of the Bank’s project portfolio in Indonesia. In addition, she also designed and managed the implementation of Green KDP/PNPM pilot (a multi-donors grant scheme - administered by the World Bank) project in Indonesia.

Postgraduate Researcher, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150. Fax: 9360 6381, Email: vivianti.rambe@gmail.com or V.Rambe@murdoch.edu.au