By Dr. K. D. Singh, PresidentAcademy of Forest and Environmental Sciences, India
GEO Strategy for Capacity Development: post 2015With Special Reference to Tropical Regions1
MAIN SECTIONS
1. THE CURRENT CAPACITY IN THE TROPICAL REGIONS
2. REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO THE TOPICAL COUNTRIES
3. STRENGTHENING OF GLOBAL / REGIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK
4. DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE ON TROPICAL FORESTS
5. LESSONS OF INTERREGIONAL COUNTRY CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT, 1995-98
GEO Strategy for Capacity Development: post 2015With Special Reference to Tropical Regions1
COUNTRY CAPACITY IN TROPICAL REGIONSGOFC –GOLD SURVEY 2009
Only 3 out of the 99 countries scored very good for both forest area change monitoring and volume assessments, while less than 20% had submitted a complete GHG inventory; but, 70% of countries seemed to have serious limitations to provide complete and accurate national estimates
RURAL ENERGY USE
Wood from agric. 4%
Forest yield18%
Wood from other land
2%
Unrecorded sources
65%
Agric. residues 11%
INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF GEO IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
1. INFORMATION GATHERING 2. CAPACITY BUILDING
1.1 Databases management 2. 1 Institution Development
1.2 Processed results 2.2 Skills
1.3 Studies and models 2.3 Standards
1.4 Reports 2.4 Methodologies
TCDC Lead Center
TCDC Lead Center
TCDC Lead Center
TCDC Lead Center
TCDC Lead Center
TCDC Lead Center
Project Headquarter Rome
Specialized Institutions in developing and developed
countries
Region Asia Region Africa Region Latin America
National Forest Resources Assessment Contribution
from and support to individual countries
Regional level
National Level
Global level
Regional level
INSTITUTIONAL NETWORKS FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN FOREST RESOURCES
ASSESSMENTS
STRENGTHENING OF REGIONAL COOPERATION IN MONITORING BIODIVERSITY IN COUNTRIES
OF ASIA & THE PACIFIC REGION
• Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (affiliated to UN)
• In Collaboration with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Forest Survey of India & Academy of Forests & Environmental Sciences
THE EPILOGUE
• “The history of international assistance shows that donors and partner countries alike have tended to look at capacity development as mainly a technical process, or as a transfer of knowledge or models from North to South. It is not that.
• What it involves is a fundamental change in
development paradigm including focusing on capacity as an endogenous process, agreeing at country level on capacity objectives and monitoring outcomes from the perspective of the beneficiaries. Such changes could have a substantial impact on capacity development outcomes.”
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