Advanced Community Forestry

Specific skills that students will acquire include:

• Capability to use and analyse models of the links between forest/tree resources and rural economy.
• Ability to recommend effective institutional mechanisms for solving tree resource allocation conflicts amidst growing resource pressures and demands.
• Develop adaptive and integrated plans for implementation of sustainable community forestry projects and programmes using participatory approaches and tools.
• Ability to assess the effectiveness and consequences (economic and socio-political) of forestry policies, reforms agendas related to community forestry.

Formulate mechanisms for effective stakeholder empowerment and group formation to share experiences and lessons learned from community forest / tree management activities.