NTFP management course 31 Aug 15 2
RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests
Training course
Participatory Non-Timber Forest
Products Resource Management
Training
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.
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
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
3.
Practiced the approaches and tools that support the development, implementation and monitoring of NTFP
resource management.
Who should join?
• 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 communitybased 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:
•
•
•
•
•
•
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
management
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 forestbased 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 actionoriented, 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:
How 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.
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.
www.recoftc.org
Training course
Participatory Non-Timber Forest
Products Resource Management
Training
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.
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
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
3.
Practiced the approaches and tools that support the development, implementation and monitoring of NTFP
resource management.
Who should join?
• 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 communitybased 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:
•
•
•
•
•
•
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
management
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 forestbased 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 actionoriented, 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:
How 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.
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.
www.recoftc.org