ANNEX 3
Training Capabilities of the RRa Centers

NAME OF ORGANIZATION

TYPES OF TRAINING COURSES RUN AND DURATION

TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS

CAPACITY (NO. OF COURSES)

Center for International Development and Environment of the World Resources Institute

Participatory RRA training course to produce village resource management plans; 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 weeks; classroom/field work

Government technical extension officers, NGO field staff

Approximately 20 participants per course; 2-4 courses per year

Intermediate Technology Development Group

Training in applied social science techniques. Courses vary from 1 week to 1 month

Researchers (social science and technical), project staff (local and ex-patriate), internal personnel

4 courses, with 15 or fewer participants

Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Dep't., University of Reading, 16 London Road, Reading RG1 SAQ, United Kingdom

As part of Research, Planning and Evaluation components of post-graduate courses leading to Master's or Diploma degrees. Training -- tailor-made courses in extension will include RRA techniques as part of communication process.

Extension agents, government officials. One short course on Women and Agricultural Development is aimed at women with field-level responsibilities for women's programs/gender-aware agricultural extension.

Negotiable

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Grubtt, P.O. Box 5180, 6236 Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany

Staff training courses, five days long

Project staff

1 course per year (potentially more)

Intercooperation, Maulbeerstrasse 10, Postfach 6724, CH-300, Bern, Switzerland

Agroecosystem analysis (in collaboration with IIED/IDS); 5 days

Swiss-based government and NGO officials, project staff

1 course (about 20 participants)/per year

GRAAP -- Groupe de Recherche et d'Appui pour l'Autopromotion Paysanne, B.P. 785, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Involved in farmer-extension agent training/participation for community development, resource management, etc.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London

Training in RRA methods with stress on agro-ecosystem analysis and interactive planning tools.

Development professionals, NGO officials, project staff, local planners, government officials, researchers

Negotiable. Courses both in developing countries and based in London.

Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, United Kingdom

Workshops held at IDS and courses for other organizations on RRA methodology and development issues.

MPhil students, planners, government officials, development professionals, researchers

Includes a three-month course for senior planners taught at IDS.

COMMUNITY FORESTRY PUBLICATIONS

Community Forestry Notes

1

Household food security and forestry: an analysis of socio-economic issues, 1989 (Ar/E/F/S)

2

Community forestry: participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation, 1989 (E/F/S)

3

Community forestry: rapid appraisal, 1989 (E/F/S)

4

Community forestry: herders' decision-making in natural resources management in arid and semi-arid Africa, 1990 (E°/F)

5

Community forestry: rapid appraisal of tree and land tenure, 1989 (E/F/S)

6

The major significance of `minor' forest products: the local use and value of forests in the West African humid forest zone, 1990 (E°)

7

Community forestry: ten years in review, 1991 (E/F/S°)

8

Shifting cultivators: local technical knowledge and natural resource management in the humid tropics, 1991 (E/F/S)

9

Socioeconomic attributes of trees and tree planting practices, 1991 (E/F**/S)

10

A framework for analyzing institutional incentives in community forestry, 1992 (E/F/S)

11

Common forest resource management: annotated bibliography of Asia, Africa and Latin America, 1993 (E/F**/S**)

12

Introducing community forestry: annotated listing of topics and readings, 1994 (E)

13

What about the wild animals? Wild animal species in community forestry in the tropics, 1995 (E)

14

Legal bases for managing forest resources as common property, 1999 (E)

Community Forestry Field Manuals

1

Guidelines for planning, monitoring and evaluating cookstove programs, 1990 (E/F/S°)

2

The community's toolbox: the idea, methods and tools for participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation in community forestry, 1990 (E/F/S)

3

Guidelines for integrating nutrition concerns into forestry projects, 1991 (E/F/S)

4

Tree and land tenure: rapid appraisal tools, 1994 (E/F/S)

5

Selecting tree species on the basis of community needs, 1995 (E/F**/S)

6

Marketing information systems for non-timber forest products, 1995 (E)

7

Crafting institutional arrangements for community forestry, 1997 (E)

Community Forestry Case Studies

1

Case studies of farm forestry and wasteland development in Gujarat, India, 1988 (E)

2

Forestland for the people. A forest village project in Northeast Thailand, 1988 (E)

3

Women's role in dynamic forest-based small scale enterprises. Case studies on uppage and lacquerware from India, 1991 (E°)

4

Case studies in forest-based small scale enterprises in Asia. Rattan, matchmaking and handicrafts, 1991 (E°)

5

Social and economic incentives for smallholder tree growing. A case study from Murang'a District, Kenya, 1993 (E)

6

Shifting cultivators of Indonesia: marauders or managers of the forest? Rice production and forest use among the Uma' Jalan of East Kalimantan, 1993 (E/Viet)

7

Peasant participation in community reforestation. Four communities in the Department of Cuzco, Peru, 1993 (E)

8

The impact of social and environmental change on forest management. A case study from West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1993 (E)

9

Tree and land tenure in the Eastern Terai, Nepal. A case study from the Siraha and Saptari Districts, Nepal, 1993 (E)

10

Tree and land tenure: using rapid appraisal to study natural resource management. A case study from Anivorano, Madagascar, 1995 (E)

11

Shifting cultivation in Bhutan: a gradual approach to modifying land use patterns. A case study from Pema Gatshel District, Bhutan, 1995 (E)

12

Farmer experimentation and innovation. A case study of knowledge generation processes in agroforestry systems in Rwanda, 1996 (E)

13

Developing participatory and integrated watershed management. A case study of the FAO/Italy Inter-regional Project for Participatory Upland Conservation and Development (PUCD), 1998 (E)

Community Forestry Working Papers

1

The role of alternative conflict management in community forestry, 1994 (E)

2

Participatory approaches to planning for community forestry, 1995 (E)

3

Forest resources and institutions, 1998 (E)

Community Forestry Conflict Management Series

-

Proceedings: electronic conference on "addressing natural resource conflicts through community forestry," January-May 1996, (E)

-

Integrating conflict management considerations into national policy frameworks. Proceedings of a satellite meeting to the XI World Forestry Congress, 10-13 October 1997, Antalya, Turkey, (E)

Community Forestry Guidelines

1

Women in community forestry: a field guide for project design and implementation, 1989 (E/F/S)

2

Integrating gender considerations into FAO forestry projects, 1994 (E/F**/S)

Community Forestry Audio Visuals and Slide Booklets

-

Forestry and food security, 1993 (E/F/S)

-

Fruits of our work: women in community forestry, Tanzania [slide booklet], 1991 (E)

-

Gender analysis for forestry development planning - why? % how?, 1996 (E)

-

Gender analysis for forestry development planning - why? % how? [slide booklet], 1997 (E) What is a tree?, 1994 (E/F)

-

What is a tree? [slide booklet], 1995 (E)

-

Women and community forestry in Sudan [slide booklet], 1991 (E)

Community Forestry Cartoon Booklets

1

Food for the future, 1990 (Ch/E/F/P/S)

2

Our trees and forests, 1992 (Ch/E/F/S)

3

I am so hungry I could eat a tree, 1992 (Ch/E/F/S)

4

Fabulous forest factories, 1993 (Ch/E/F/S)

Other Community Forestry Publications

-

Community forestry posters, 1997 (E)

-

Forests, trees and food, 1992 (E/S) Forests, trees and people programme [brochure], 1998 (E/F/S)

-

Forestry and food security [brochure], 1996 (E/F/S)

-

Forestry and food security [poster], 1996 (E/F/S)

-

The gender analysis and forestry international training package, 1995 (E)

-

People and forests: community forestry at FAO, 1997 (E/F/S)

-

Restoring the balance: women and forest resources, 1989 (E/F/S)

FAO Forestry Papers

7

Forestry for local community development, 1978 (E/F/S)

64

Tree growing by rural people, 1985 (Ar/E/F/S°)

79

Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises, 1987 (E/F°/S°)

90

Forestry and food security, 1989 (Ar/E/F/S°)

136

Managing forests as common property, 1998 (E)

Ar - Arabic

F - French

Viet - Vietnamese

Ch - Chinese

S - Spanish

** in preparation

E - English

P - Portuguese

°out of print; available as a PDF file

Our publications and videos are available from your regional focal point:

Anglophone Africa:

FTPP/FAN

Forest Action Network

P.O. Box 21428

Nairobi, Kenya

Fax: (254-2) 718398

E-mail: [email protected]

Asia:

FTPP@RECOFTC

Regional Community Forestry Training Center Kasetsart University

PO. Box 1111

Bangkok 10903, Thailand

Fax: (66-2) 561-4880

Email: [email protected]

Central America:

Facilitador subregional para Centroamérica

Apdo. Postal 8198 - 1000

San José, Costa Rica

Fax: (506) 280-2441

E-mail: [email protected]

Europe:

The Editor, FTP Newsletter

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Box 7005

S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden

Fax: (46-18) 673420

E-mail: [email protected]

Francophone Africa:

Facilitateur régional pour l'Afrique francophone

FTPP@IPD-AC

Institut panafricain pour le dèveloppement

B.P. 4078

Douala, Cameroun

Fax: (237) 403068

E-mail: [email protected]

Latin America and Caribbean (Spanish):

El Editor

Revista Bosques, àrboles y comunidades rurales

c/o CIED

Av. Santa Cruz 500, Jesús María

Apartado 11-0152

Lima 11, Peru

Fax: (51-1) 330-5862

E-mail: [email protected]

North America and Caribbean (English):

FTPP/NACARCE

North American & Caribbean Regional Center

5400 Grosvenor Lane

Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA

Fax: (301) 897-3690

E-mail: [email protected]

Other regions:

The Senior Community Forestry Officer

Forestry Policy and Planning Division

Forestry Department

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracolla

Rome 00100, Italy

Fax: (39-06) 5705-5514

E-mail: [email protected]

NAME OF ORGANIZATION	TYPES OF TRAINING COURSES RUN AND DURATION	TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS	CAPACITY (NO. OF COURSES)
Center for International Development and Environment of the World Resources Institute	Participatory RRA training course to produce village resource management plans; 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 weeks; classroom/field work	Government technical extension officers, NGO field staff	Approximately 20 participants per course; 2-4 courses per year
Intermediate Technology Development Group	Training in applied social science techniques. Courses vary from 1 week to 1 month	Researchers (social science and technical), project staff (local and ex-patriate), internal personnel	4 courses, with 15 or fewer participants
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Dep't., University of Reading, 16 London Road, Reading RG1 SAQ, United Kingdom	As part of Research, Planning and Evaluation components of post-graduate courses leading to Master's or Diploma degrees. Training -- tailor-made courses in extension will include RRA techniques as part of communication process.	Extension agents, government officials. One short course on Women and Agricultural Development is aimed at women with field-level responsibilities for women's programs/gender-aware agricultural extension.	Negotiable
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Grubtt, P.O. Box 5180, 6236 Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany	Staff training courses, five days long	Project staff	1 course per year (potentially more)
Intercooperation, Maulbeerstrasse 10, Postfach 6724, CH-300, Bern, Switzerland	Agroecosystem analysis (in collaboration with IIED/IDS); 5 days	Swiss-based government and NGO officials, project staff	1 course (about 20 participants)/per year
GRAAP -- Groupe de Recherche et d'Appui pour l'Autopromotion Paysanne, B.P. 785, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso	Involved in farmer-extension agent training/participation for community development, resource management, etc.
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London	Training in RRA methods with stress on agro-ecosystem analysis and interactive planning tools.	Development professionals, NGO officials, project staff, local planners, government officials, researchers	Negotiable. Courses both in developing countries and based in London.
Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, United Kingdom	Workshops held at IDS and courses for other organizations on RRA methodology and development issues.	MPhil students, planners, government officials, development professionals, researchers	Includes a three-month course for senior planners taught at IDS.

1	Household food security and forestry: an analysis of socio-economic issues, 1989 (Ar/E/F/S)
2	Community forestry: participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation, 1989 (E/F/S)
3	Community forestry: rapid appraisal, 1989 (E/F/S)
4	Community forestry: herders' decision-making in natural resources management in arid and semi-arid Africa, 1990 (E°/F)
5	Community forestry: rapid appraisal of tree and land tenure, 1989 (E/F/S)
6	The major significance of `minor' forest products: the local use and value of forests in the West African humid forest zone, 1990 (E°)
7	Community forestry: ten years in review, 1991 (E/F/S°)
8	Shifting cultivators: local technical knowledge and natural resource management in the humid tropics, 1991 (E/F/S)
9	Socioeconomic attributes of trees and tree planting practices, 1991 (E/F**/S)
10	A framework for analyzing institutional incentives in community forestry, 1992 (E/F/S)
11	Common forest resource management: annotated bibliography of Asia, Africa and Latin America, 1993 (E/F/S)
12	Introducing community forestry: annotated listing of topics and readings, 1994 (E)
13	What about the wild animals? Wild animal species in community forestry in the tropics, 1995 (E)
14	Legal bases for managing forest resources as common property, 1999 (E)

1	Guidelines for planning, monitoring and evaluating cookstove programs, 1990 (E/F/S°)
2	The community's toolbox: the idea, methods and tools for participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation in community forestry, 1990 (E/F/S)
3	Guidelines for integrating nutrition concerns into forestry projects, 1991 (E/F/S)
4	Tree and land tenure: rapid appraisal tools, 1994 (E/F/S)
5	Selecting tree species on the basis of community needs, 1995 (E/F**/S)
6	Marketing information systems for non-timber forest products, 1995 (E)
7	Crafting institutional arrangements for community forestry, 1997 (E)

1	Case studies of farm forestry and wasteland development in Gujarat, India, 1988 (E)
2	Forestland for the people. A forest village project in Northeast Thailand, 1988 (E)
3	Women's role in dynamic forest-based small scale enterprises. Case studies on uppage and lacquerware from India, 1991 (E°)
4	Case studies in forest-based small scale enterprises in Asia. Rattan, matchmaking and handicrafts, 1991 (E°)
5	Social and economic incentives for smallholder tree growing. A case study from Murang'a District, Kenya, 1993 (E)
6	Shifting cultivators of Indonesia: marauders or managers of the forest? Rice production and forest use among the Uma' Jalan of East Kalimantan, 1993 (E/Viet)
7	Peasant participation in community reforestation. Four communities in the Department of Cuzco, Peru, 1993 (E)
8	The impact of social and environmental change on forest management. A case study from West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1993 (E)
9	Tree and land tenure in the Eastern Terai, Nepal. A case study from the Siraha and Saptari Districts, Nepal, 1993 (E)
10	Tree and land tenure: using rapid appraisal to study natural resource management. A case study from Anivorano, Madagascar, 1995 (E)
11	Shifting cultivation in Bhutan: a gradual approach to modifying land use patterns. A case study from Pema Gatshel District, Bhutan, 1995 (E)
12	Farmer experimentation and innovation. A case study of knowledge generation processes in agroforestry systems in Rwanda, 1996 (E)
13	Developing participatory and integrated watershed management. A case study of the FAO/Italy Inter-regional Project for Participatory Upland Conservation and Development (PUCD), 1998 (E)

1	The role of alternative conflict management in community forestry, 1994 (E)
2	Participatory approaches to planning for community forestry, 1995 (E)
3	Forest resources and institutions, 1998 (E)

-	Proceedings: electronic conference on "addressing natural resource conflicts through community forestry," January-May 1996, (E)
-	Integrating conflict management considerations into national policy frameworks. Proceedings of a satellite meeting to the XI World Forestry Congress, 10-13 October 1997, Antalya, Turkey, (E)

1	Women in community forestry: a field guide for project design and implementation, 1989 (E/F/S)
2	Integrating gender considerations into FAO forestry projects, 1994 (E/F**/S)

-	Forestry and food security, 1993 (E/F/S)
-	Fruits of our work: women in community forestry, Tanzania [slide booklet], 1991 (E)
-	Gender analysis for forestry development planning - why? % how?, 1996 (E)
-	Gender analysis for forestry development planning - why? % how? [slide booklet], 1997 (E) What is a tree?, 1994 (E/F)
-	What is a tree? [slide booklet], 1995 (E)
-	Women and community forestry in Sudan [slide booklet], 1991 (E)

1	Food for the future, 1990 (Ch/E/F/P/S)
2	Our trees and forests, 1992 (Ch/E/F/S)
3	I am so hungry I could eat a tree, 1992 (Ch/E/F/S)
4	Fabulous forest factories, 1993 (Ch/E/F/S)

-	Community forestry posters, 1997 (E)
-	Forests, trees and food, 1992 (E/S) Forests, trees and people programme [brochure], 1998 (E/F/S)
-	Forestry and food security [brochure], 1996 (E/F/S)
-	Forestry and food security [poster], 1996 (E/F/S)
-	The gender analysis and forestry international training package, 1995 (E)
-	People and forests: community forestry at FAO, 1997 (E/F/S)
-	Restoring the balance: women and forest resources, 1989 (E/F/S)

7	Forestry for local community development, 1978 (E/F/S)
64	Tree growing by rural people, 1985 (Ar/E/F/S°)
79	Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises, 1987 (E/F°/S°)
90	Forestry and food security, 1989 (Ar/E/F/S°)
136	Managing forests as common property, 1998 (E)

Ar - Arabic	F - French	Viet - Vietnamese
Ch - Chinese	S - Spanish	** in preparation
E - English	P - Portuguese	°out of print; available as a PDF file

Anglophone Africa:	FTPP/FAN
	Forest Action Network
	P.O. Box 21428
	Nairobi, Kenya
	Fax: (254-2) 718398
	E-mail: [email protected]

Asia:	FTPP@RECOFTC
	Regional Community Forestry Training Center Kasetsart University
	PO. Box 1111
	Bangkok 10903, Thailand
	Fax: (66-2) 561-4880
	Email: [email protected]

Central America:	Facilitador subregional para Centroamérica
	Apdo. Postal 8198 - 1000
	San José, Costa Rica
	Fax: (506) 280-2441
	E-mail: [email protected]

Europe:	The Editor, FTP Newsletter
	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
	Box 7005
	S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
	Fax: (46-18) 673420
	E-mail: [email protected]

Francophone Africa:	Facilitateur régional pour l'Afrique francophone
	FTPP@IPD-AC
	Institut panafricain pour le dèveloppement
	B.P. 4078
	Douala, Cameroun
	Fax: (237) 403068
	E-mail: [email protected]

Latin America and Caribbean (Spanish):	El Editor
	Revista Bosques, àrboles y comunidades rurales
	c/o CIED
	Av. Santa Cruz 500, Jesús María
	Apartado 11-0152
	Lima 11, Peru
	Fax: (51-1) 330-5862
	E-mail: [email protected]

North America and Caribbean (English):	FTPP/NACARCE
	North American & Caribbean Regional Center
	5400 Grosvenor Lane
	Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
	Fax: (301) 897-3690
	E-mail: [email protected]

Other regions:	The Senior Community Forestry Officer
	Forestry Policy and Planning Division
	Forestry Department
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
	Viale delle Terme di Caracolla
	Rome 00100, Italy
	Fax: (39-06) 5705-5514
	E-mail: [email protected]

ANNEX 3 Training Capabilities of the RRa Centers

ANNEX 3
Training Capabilities of the RRa Centers