ForestAction Nepal and Environmental Resources Institute (ERI) jointly organized training cum study tour on participatory technology development in Nepal for senior officials and professionals of Community Infrastructure Services Project of the Local Government and Rural Development, Department of Azad Jammu Kasmir (AJK), Pakistan. The program provided an opportunity to the participants to explore, understand, reflect and appreciate innovative processes and dynamics of social mobilization on infrastructure development in rural Nepal. The training cum study tour was organized from 13 to 23 August 2007. Total participants of the training were.....

ForestAction in collaboration with Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) organised a one day workshop on Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) in Nepal on 26 December, 2007 in Kathmandu. The workshop was organised as part of a regional project titled ‘Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Situation Analysis in South Asia (ESPASA)’. The participants of the workshop were organisational heads and engaged professionals on the issue. The workshop came up with a number of issue and recommendation. The proceeding was later sent to all participants. Total participants of the workshop were …….

A ten-day long international training on Introducing Community Forestry: Innovative Ideas, Practice and Methodologies was organized by ForestAction in collaboration with RECOFTC from 20-30th March, 2006 in Kathmandu. Combining the capacities of the two institutions in the development and delivery of the training program ensured a quality training program of an international standard and provided a further basis for the building of a stronger partnership. Total 11 participants from different countries participated in the training.

The training-workshop cum tour was organized by Environmental Resource Institute (ERI) and ForestAction Nepal for Sri Lanka-Australia Natural Resource Management Project team from 20-30 November, 2006. The program aimed to build the capacity of field managers and facilitators in the area of community forest management by exposing them with the ground reality of community forestry (CF) in Nepal. After having classroom sessions and meeting national level forestry stakeholders, the participants had the opportunity to visit community forest user groups both from buffer zone and outside. The participants visited central terai and hill districts during the field visits. Thirteen participants from the department of forest and the project participated in the program.

A five-day long residential training on Transformative Learning was organised by ForestAction in collaboration with Environmental Resources Institute from 19-23 September 2005 at Dhulikhel, Kavre. Interactions, debates and discussions within the discourses of transformative learning (which create a space for political debate, wherein every member of society, irrespective of caste, class, gender or ethnicity, can participate and internalize the process of transformation, contributing to sustainable change) were held with the participants, helping to identify several critical areas to be strengthened, so that participants could contribute more effectively in the process of social transformation. There were 23 participants from various organizations, including I/NGOs, media, political parties, writers, university students and activists.

A National Training on 'Adaptive and Collaborative Management (ACM) in Natural Resource Management' was conducted in collaboration with New ERA and Kathmandu Forestry College during December 19-23, 2005. A total of 21 participants from 10 different organizations including NGOs, INGOs and Bilateral projects participated in the training. The training provided the conceptual basis of social and transformative learning and role of conscious and shared learning in community based natural resource management. Participants have developed a network of ACMers to promote the concept and practices of ACM and share experiences of each other.

This eight-day training run jointly by ForestAction and ERI was held from October 10-17, 2004, aiming to improve the local level capacity for NTFP management through enhancing the participants’ knowledge and skills related to resource management, marketing and institutional arrangements for the promotion of NTFPs. The training introduced the participants to the concepts, approaches and processes of NTFP management and provided practical tools to manage NTFPs at the community level. A total of 21 participants from nine different districts participated in the training.

In September 2004, ForestAction and ERI organized the two-day Scientific Writing Workshop, intending to impart knowledge to the participating researchers and research practitioners on how one can apply the scientific method to the writing practice to make it more systematic and logical. The main objective of the workshop was to make participants familiar with scientific writing and encourage them to reflect upon it in their writing, so as to elude common error from the products and to conceptualise the writing process as a science. A total of 10 researchers and research practitioners from different NGOs participated in the workshop.

A one-day seminar, conducted jointly by ForestAction and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on the management of common property resources and equity was organized and held with the objective of documenting case studies incorporating evidences, lessons and insights to facilitate the mainstreaming of equity and poverty concerns in the management of common property resources, especially those in community forestry and farmer management irrigation systems, rangeland management and watershed management. Thirteen papers were presented on different aspects of common property resources, including seven case studies. The proceedings of the seminar have also been published in February 2004.

Organized by ForestAction in collaboration with ERI, this five-day long training was held in Dhulikhel, Kavre. The purpose of the training was to orient participants on the concepts, approaches, and processes of self-monitoring as well as to provide tools to facilitate self-monitoring systems at community level institutions.

The training was held for 8 days in December 2002. This training was designed to orient the participants, both foresters and non-foresters, on the concepts, approaches and processes of NTFP management, providing the participants with practical tools to manage NTFPs at the community level.

The Forest Rights and Livelihoods Training was launched in order to raise the awareness of participants on multiple aspects of community forest management policies.

This training oriented the participants on the concepts, approaches and processes of community forestry so as to increase their ability to claim for rights and responsibilities by forest users.

A three-day conference on management of common property resources and equity has been planned to conduct in collaboration with different organizations. The main objective of the conference was to document case studies incorporating evidences, lessons and insights to facilitate mainstreaming of equity and poverty concerns in the management of CPR, namely community forestry and farmer managed irrigation systems.

This training was held in October 2000 in Thimura, Chitwan. Total 19 participants representing government, I/NGOs, and CBOs participated in this training. Exposing the participants to the concepts and practices of forest management and planning, the individuals’ knowledge and skill bases were enhanced. Participants were also strongly encouraged to reflect upon their experiences in forest planning to synthesize their new learning.