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ForestAction Nepal led this workshop in October 2001 for field-based workers involved in NTFP-related work. The 20 participants were introduced to a wide variety of concepts, policies and practices of community-based forest management for NTFP production, with the intent of supporting the livelihoods of the forest users, particularly the poorest and the marginalized.

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.

Three two-day trainings/workshops were organized by RPISF project team in December in Lamatar area of Lalitpur district, Nawalpur area of Nawalparasi district and Kushmisera area of Baglung district. Local entrepreneurs, community leaders and other stakeholders were participated in the workshops. Value chain analysis is a preliminary and paramount task for promotion and trading of forest products, and enterprise development. For this purpose, workshops at community and meso (district and sub-district) levels were organized in all the clusters and districts followed by the analysis of market, technology and policy related issues.

VCP project has conducted various skill development trainings to enhance the livelihoods opportunities of the conflict affected vulnerable people of the project area. Altogether 30 skill development trainings were conducted in 11 project districts and total 681 individuals were directly benefited from these trainings. With the help of materials and/or toolkit support along with skill development trainings, most of the participants are engaged in self–managed enterprises. Capacity Building Trainings to Health Workers To provide efficient health services to the conflict affected people it has conducted different capacity enhancement trainings to the health workers in its 11 working districts. Altogether 1210 health workers, specially, members of Health Facility Management Committee, health assistants, auxiliary health workers, female community health volunteers and traditional healers were benefited from these trainings

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.

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.

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. Participatory Resource Inventory in Community Forestry Training ForestAction Nepal designed and facilitated this training for the development of the skills of the participants in carrying out community forest inventory studies, through an introduction and discussion of the current issues as well as the concepts, approaches and processes of community forest inventory

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.