Aims to build institutional capacity in Africa through training carefully-selected individuals whose work is linked to forest conservation.
Objectives:
Immediate objectives:
- To award 120 fellowships over four years to national park staff, teachers and local NGO leaders from tropical forest areas in Kenya, Cameroon and East Africa
(recruitment areas to be reviewed annually);
- To brief them through a distance learning programme;
- To place them on a field research project for two weeks related to their professional needs;
- To consolidate this list training and environmental/scientific literacy through follow-up over two years;
- To consolidate the process with an in-country seminar bringing together the fellows after they return from the field.
Wider objectives:
- To raise awareness of forest conservation among key constituencies in Africa;
- To secure a multiplier effect through selecting opinion farmers and decision makers;
- To develop institutional capacity through training individuals within institutions.
Activities:
- Selection of Fellows through a competition administered through Rarthwatch Europe's local agents and a list of recommended candidates supplied by the agents.
- Screening of candidates;
- Briefing document;
- Field projects selected from the international portfolio of field research projects. The Commission will be notified en advance at the start of each year's activities of the
field projects chosen for the coming year's project placements;
- Follow-up to consolidate the experience and show the Fellow how it can be used in their daily life (Report writing; follow-up materials; Seminars).
- Capacity building: Earthwatch will maximise, where appropriate, the capacity building within institutions by selecting Fellows from the same institution over four years;
- Indicators of achievement quantitative (the recruitment of 120 fellows from the target contingencies in the target countries; attendance of fellows at follow-up seminars;
the response rate to each stage of monitoring and evaluation; overall ratings for each stage of the programme collated from the evaluation check-lists) and qualitative
(developing human resources through training individuals; securing a multiplier effect within institutions; raising awareness of tropical forest conservation among key
constituencies).
- Monitoring and evaluation (measurement and assessment of indicators of achievement)
Results expected:
6. Human resources development:
- Training national park staff, teachers and NGO leaders from forest areas in Kenya, Cameroon and East Africa in the methodologies and techniques of field research,
fundamental to sustainable development and conservation;
- Training national park staff, teachers and NGO leaders in a specific area relevant to their daily life;
- Educating national park staff, teachers and NGO leaders in the need for baseline research to provide a basis for sound development and sustainable investment decisions
- Demonstrating through group discussion, field work and pilot projects the means of translating research into effective and practical executive measures;
- Awareness raising of the interrelationship between different scientific disciplines;
- Fostering contacts between senior scientists, world-wide institutions, local technicians and northern volunteers on the one hand and the Fellowship recipients on the
other;
7. Institutional capacity building:
- Generating a multiplier effect through the acquired knowledge of returned fellowship recipients;
- Increasing, through individual development, the capacity of institutions to develop their own resources for strategic planning and technical development;
- Promoting south-south regional co-operation within institutions to encourage both the sharing of knowledge and research and empirical problem solving based on
common problems.
Beneficiaries:
National park staff, teachers and NGO leaders from forest areas in Kenya, Cameroon and East Africa.
Implementation strategy:
Human resources
Fulfilment of the project by Earthwatch Europe will require 56 man-months over four years. An additional 112 days over four years will be required for monitoring and
evaluation in the field
Material resources
- Co-ordination of Fellows' field placements;
- Follow-up including in-country-seminars and provision of follow-up materials by Earthwatch at two monthly intervals over two years;
- Monitoring evaluation, administration and reporting including field site visits.
- Recruitment and briefing of Fellowship candidates
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