TRAINING COURSE ON ECO-DEVELOPMENT PLANNING FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
(19TH – 26TH DECEMBER, 2018)
DETAILED REPORT
As a part of the Advanced Post Graduate Diploma Course in Wildlife Management (01.09.2018
to 30.06.2019), under the module “Training course on Eco-development Planning for
Biodiversity Conservation” from 19th – 26th December, 2018, the Namami Gange – the WII
project “Biodiversity conservation and Ganga rejuvenation” has sponsored lateral entrants
officers at ACF/DCF level from five Ganga states at Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun.
The objectives were to discuss the various aspects of biodiversity conservation and importance
of community participation highlighting the importance of motivation in the process of natural
resource conservation, understanding the causes of conflict and the possible measures for their
resolution as well as mitigation. The course also aimed at the methods and practical
experiences utilised to ensure cooperation between the various stakeholders involved in
ensuring sustainable resource utilisation and eco-development. A total of 8 forest officials
participated the training course.
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Eco-development planning for Biodiversity Conservation 19th - 26th December 2018
19th December 2018
0930-1100 hrs Workshop Objectives, methodology, expectations and group norms – AKB/RB
1100-1115 hrs Tea Break
1115- 1330 hrs Ecodevelopment Concept and key issues (BKM/AKB)
1330-1430 hrs Lunch Break
1430-1530 hrs Change (RB)
1545-1600 hrs Tea Break
1530-1700 hrs Local community- RB/PD
1700-1705 hrs Feedback of the day
20th December 2018
0900-0910hrs Recapitulating the learning of day 1
0910-1100 hrs Community participation – BKM
1100-1115 hrs Tea Break
1115-1300 hrs Team Building- BKM/PD
1300-1400 hrs Lunch Break
1400-1500 hrs String Bag exercise
1500-1600 hrs Community values, belief systems and local traditional knowledge – AKB
1600-1615 hrs Tea Break
1615-1715 hrs Involving local people in conservation: Experiences from the KLNP, Manipur- CT
1715-1720 hrs Feedback of the day
21st December 2018
0915-0930 hrs Recapitulating the learning of day 2
0930-1030 hrs If….Then - BKM
1030-1115 hrs Conservation development linkages - BKM
1115-1130 hrs Tea Break
1130-1215 hrs Conservation development linkages - BKM
1215-1330 hrs Institutions and institution building process-AKB
1330-1430 hrs Lunch Break
1430-1600 hrs PA Mutual impact zone- BKM
1600-1615 hrs Tea Break
1615-1730 hrs Looking Beyond Protected Areas: Landscape Approach-VKU
1730-1735 hrs Feedback of the day
24th December 2018
0915-0930hrs Recapitulating the learning of day 3
0930-1130 hrs Conflict and conflict resolution – AKB/PD
1130-1145 hrs Tea Break
1145-1300 hrs Stakeholders in conservation – mapping and SWOT – RB
1330-1430 hrs Lunch Break
1430-1600 hrs Common grounds and collaborative management – RB
1600-1615 hrs Tea Break
1615- 1700 hrs Legal issues in involving communities in biodiversity conservation – AG
1700-1705 hrs Feedback of the day
26th December 2018
0930-0945 hrs recapitulating the learning of day 4
0945-1045 hrs Jo Hari window- RB
1045-1100 hrs Tea Break
1100-1300 hrs Technological interventions for sustainable livelihoods in PA borderlands -SKA
1300-1400 hrs Lunch Break
1400-1515 hrs Johari Window – RB
1515-1530 hrs Tea Break
1545-1715 hrs Evaluation- RB
Abbreviations
AKB – A.K. Bhardwaj BKM – B.K. Mishra RB – Ruchi Badola
CT- Chongpi Tuboi VKU – V.K. Uniyal AG-Anjana Gosain
PD - Pariva Dobriyal SKA- Sunil Agarwal
PHOTO GALLERY
Session by Dr. Ruchi Badola on ‘Local Community’
Group activity on various real-life case studies on community participation by Dr. B. K. Mishra
Group activity on ‘Staff Motivation’ by Dr. Ruchi Badola
Session on ‘Looking Beyond Protected Areas: Landscape Approach’ by Dr. V. K. Uniyal
Group activity on ‘Conflict and Conflict Resolution’ by Dr. A. K. Bhardwaj
Session on ‘Legal Issues in Involving Communities in Biodiversity Conservation’ by Ms. Anjana
Gosain