Louise Williamson

Work Experience Social Compliance and Impact Manager, Bridge Carbon, Cape Town, South Africa 2025 – Present Provided group-level accountability for social safeguards, community engagement, benefit sharing, and impact measurement across a diverse carbon and nature-based solutions portfolio. Spearheaded Work Package 5 (Improved Cookstoves) on the European Union-funded Africa Energy Parks Programme in Ghana. Developed, maintained, and enforced robust social safeguard policies tailored for nature- based solutions and cookstove carbon projects. Designed and assured effective Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes and grievance redressal mechanisms. Established equitable and transparent benefit-sharing systems meticulously aligned with carbon standard requirements. Produced comprehensive impact and social performance reporting for verification cycles, investor submissions, and donor and regulator requirements. Conducted thorough environmental and social risk assessments, evaluating human rights, labour rights, gender, land rights, and health impacts. Devised impact measurement frameworks, community monitoring campaigns, household surveys, beneficiary tracking, and social outcome Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Validated the social compliance of implementation partners, suppliers, distributors, and field agents, alongside training field teams and community organisations. Project & Implementation Manager, Ener-G-Africa (merged with Bridge Carbon), South Africa, South Africa & Ghana 02/2023 – 2025 Served as Project Lead for Work Package 5 of the EU–Ghana Africa Energy Parks programme. Functioned as the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Subcluster Leader for Clean Cooking initiatives. Directed survey design and community research, encompassing a 106-household baseline study across five villages and a six-phase comparative field trial. Oversaw the complete project lifecycle from design, planning, and implementation to monitoring and evaluation, while effectively managing budgets and resource allocation.