The Directorate of Forest Education (DFE) in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) shall hold a workshop on Wednesday to finalise the course module to be used in the in-service training course for State Forest Service officers conducted by State forest service training academies at Dehradun, Coimbatore, Burnihat and Kurseong.
Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy director RK Goel will inaugurate the workshop which will be attended by several experts of specific
training fields. The participants will deliberate upon the feedback data collected by course monitoring conducted in 2011 and 2012 which is comprised of immediate monitoring and post training monitoring for finalising course module so that the fine-tuned module will be authorised as model modules by the Ministry of Environment and Forets.
The DFE, Dehradun has been implementing the five year Technical Cooperation Project for capacity building of State Forest Training Institutions and Central Academy for State Forest Service (CASFOS) with the assistance of JICA since March 2009 aiming to strengthen forestry training institutions of the MoEF. So far, the project has developed six in-service training modules, i.e. Training of Trainers (TOT), legal Issues in Forestry & Wildlife (lIFE), Wildlife Management (WlM), General Refresher Course (GRC), Community Forestry & Joint Forest Management (CF & JFM), and Human Resource Management (HRM), and implemented them as SFS in-service training courses in 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13.