Workshops and Seminars
Selected workshop and seminar projects will include:
- Improving agro-tourism for regional development
- Assessing the roles of forestry and alley-cropping in development
- Conserving forests as an environmental eco-balance
- Inspiring and exploring the potentials of women in agricultural development
- Defining development
- Measuring poverty and achieving well-being
- The GNP, Physical Quality of Life Index and the Human Development Index
- Understanding the poor
- Actors in poverty alleviation-national and international
- Post-crisis developments efforts
- Global commitments and their use
- Evolving concepts of development aid
- Understanding national capacity
- Understanding project development including:
- bottom up vs. top down approaches
- overcoming the psychology of marginalization
- values and entrepreneurship
- working with community-based organisations
- the politics of CBO-NGO-Government-International agendas
- community mobilisation strategies
- participatory rural appraisal
- project appraisal methods, including benefit/cost analysis
- role of technical assistance
- financing the poor
- Integrating conservation and development
- Technology choices
- Materials workshops on appropriate technologies
- Geographic information Systems (GIS)
- Micro-credit/micro-enterprise models and constraints
- Improving accountability to the poor
- Monitoring as a planning tool
- Upgrade Farms as a business
- Farming improvement
- Turning farms into business enterprises