Sabine Jiekak is an international development consultant and currently serves as technical advisor on  land and artisanal mining projects with Tetra Tech ARD in Central Africa, Burkina Faso and Niger. Her areas of expertise and interest include land policy and tenure governance, women’s rights and gender, community-based natural resource management, livelihoods and value chain development, conservation.  She has 13 years of personal and professional experience managing projects in West and Central Africa regions, and Switzerland.