Ibrahim Muhammad Shamsuddin
- Group:Cohort XII
Ibrahim Muhammad Shamsuddin
Muhammad is a multi-talented individual who wears many hats: a climate justice activist, digital storyteller, grassroots organizer, and certified teacher. He is recognized for his award-winning work as a digital activist. Currently, he focuses on supporting initiatives that include climate adaptation and resilience building, clean cooking, promoting environmental governance, climate change education, and adaptation. With a strong commitment to research, policy, advocacy, and practice, Muhammad aims to enhance capacity, understanding, and citizen engagement mechanisms to facilitate a resilience and clean energy transition, with an emphasis on clean cooking, transparency, and accountability in the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the Global Stocktake (GST), and climate change mitigation and adaptation in Africa.
He is currently an Early Career Scholar for an Inclusive Stocktake (ECSIS) facilitated by the iGST at the Center for Global Sustainability, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Master of Environmental Management (MEM in View), Department of Geography, Nigerian Defence Academy.
He has six years of experience working on pro-poor equitable social development programs, collaborating with both non-state and state actors, including MDAs and policymakers, to promote transparency and accountability in environmental governance. Additionally, he has three years of experience implementing and supporting donor-funded projects.
Muhammad possesses the unique skills of effective stakeholder engagement, effective communication, and outstanding human relations. Muhammad enjoys exploring and is comforted by engaging hard to reach climate vulnerable marginalized communities.