RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests
Training course
Participatory Non-Timber Forest
Products Resource Management
Training
Registration information
Dates: 19 – 24 October 2015
Course location: Palawan, Philippines
Course fee: USD 1,600 per person
Contact:info@recoftc.org for more inquiries and registration
Registration will close on 11 September, 2015
Sustainable resource management must be carefully planned when setting up community-based enterprise projects, particularly when these involve natural capital. The Participatory Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) Resource Management Training offers an approach through which participants can learn how to develop enterprise projects that are not only sustainable but also in harmony with local communities’ culture as well as the overall well-being of their forest ecosystem.
The six-day course provides participants with a practical step-by-step guide for community organizers to assist their communities in ensuring that forest resources, particularly NTFPs, are used and managed sustainably. This will be done through a mix of presentations, case studies and structured learning exercises. Participants will learn by relating to their own experiences as part of the learning approaches and tools applied in this course, along with field visits and interactions with the facilitators and community members.
The training will be held in the province of Palawan, Philippines, home to approximately 57 ethno linguistic groups with three different indigenous peoples: the Tagbanua, Palawan and Batak. The training will be hosted by the Palawan indigenous people of Brooke’s Point, who continue to manage their forest resources traditionally to this day. They also have decades of enterprise development experience with NTFPs such as resin, seeds and agroforest products. Gathering of NTFPs such as resin, honey, rattan, medicinal plants, buri, bamboo and vines is an important economic and cultural activity for them. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with indigenous communities with long experience in sustainably managing their forests and their NTFP enterprises.
Course objectives
At the end of the training, participants will have:
1. Learned the importance of resource management in relation to NTFP management and enterprise development; 2. Been exposed to a number of sustainable practices that can ensure the viability and sustainability of NTFP
resource management and NTFP enterprise development; and
Who should join?
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Government officials working with forest-based communities, preferably on NTFP resource management and enterprise development with a minimum of three years work experience in the ASEAN region;•
Field-level officers, or project managers who are interested in developing or supporting community-based NTFP enterprises in the ASEAN region; and•
Project managers of civil society organizations and corporate units actively involved in implementing or supporting the development and implementation of community-based enterprises and NTFP resource management.Course content
Highly experienced trainers from Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) and RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests will deliver and facilitate the course. The course will build from the experiences of participants to understand the topics below:
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Principles behind sustainable resources management•
Community Livelihood Appraisal and Product Scanning•
Identification of NTFPs, their uses and managers•
Evaluation of existing resource management systems•
Development of a resource management plan•
Linking resource management to enterprise managementHow it works?
The training sessions will be a mix of lectures, presentations, case studies and structured learning exercises. The participants will also go through a forest walk and visit the communities to practice the tools they will learn, and have discussions with the host community on their resource management practices.
The Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme –Asia (NTFP-EP Asia) is a collaborative network of grassroots NGOs and community-based organizations working to build the capacity and relationships of forest-based communities in Asia towards forest conservation and livelihood enhancement. NTFP-EP Asia recognizes the barriers to sustainable forest-based economies for small producers, and through programs on policy and governance, community resource management, enterprise development, and food and health security, it seeks to secure tenure, conserve ecosystems, improve business acumen, and improve wellbeing through subsistence use of local resources based on traditional knowledge.
Visit www.ntfp.org for more info.
RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests offers training courses utilizing unique and highly effective approaches that apply experiential learning based on adult learning principles. RECOFTC training courses are action-oriented. Through participatory training activities, participants explore information and knowledge based on their own experiences. Participants and trainers work together to analyze and reflect leading to deeper understanding of community forestry, and identification of opportunities for improved practices. Each of RECOFTC’s training is designed to produce action plans that enable participants to take their learning forward in their workplace. As RECOFTC training courses are action-oriented, monitoring and evaluation of the learning and application is an integral part of the training services offered by RECOFTC.
To reserve your place in this course or for more information, please email:
Sirichai Saengcharnchai ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry
and Climate Change (ASFCC) Tel: +66 (0) 2 940 5700 ext. 3220 E-mail: asfcc@recoftc.org
RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forestds
PO Box 1111, Kasetsart Post Office, Bangkok 10903, Thailand
Tel: +66 (0)2 940 5700 Fax: +66 (0)2 561 4880
RECOFTC holds a unique and important place in the world of forestry. It is the only international not-for-profit organization that specializes in capacity development for community forestry. With over 25 years of international experience and a dynamic
approach to capacity development, RECOFTC delivers innovative solutions for people and forests.
