Forest governance workshop in Bhutan

The working group “Trees and Forests in Development Cooperation” invites interested professionals to participate in this international workshop. The main goals of the 5-day workshop will be the sharing of practical experiences on forest governance, and acquiring new knowledge on specific sub-topics in the domain of forest governance; e.g. promoting an enabling institutional framework (incl. tenure and user rights), addressing the gap between existing forest policies and legal framework and their effective implementation in the field, and developing appropriate capacity and tools, multi-actor and multi-functional management and benefit sharing.

Eight travel grants are available; pre-registrations and grant applications due: 29 February 2008

This workshop organised by Helvetas is part of a series of events on forests and governance. Another 2-day workshop organised by Intercooperation and the Federal Office for the Environment will take place in Interlaken, Switzerland, on the 29 and 30 October 2008.

For more information, visit the website of the working group “Trees and Forests in Development Cooperation”