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Capacity Building
The Support Unit’s training and capacity building strategy addresses common institutional needs within the consortia, strengthens inter–institutional linkages, and addresses key emerging issues that are relevant to ICAA as a whole including priority conservation themes such as infrastructure development, territorial management, and climate change. While training and capacity building will be designed and focused primarily on the ICAA conservation consortia, the ISU will seek opportunities for reaching other regional networks and indigenous constituencies through mechanisms such as small grants or co-sponsored trainings.
The training and capacity building activities respond to two demand-driven criteria: 1) the results of the ICAA consortia survey; and 2) the need for strengthening local capacities for civil society to participate in regional infrastructure development dialogue and land management issues. During 2009, the ISU has conducted an Implementation and Development of Community Enterprises with the support of Rainforest Alliance in Ecuador and a series of exchanges targeting indigenous groups in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru organized in collaboration with WCS, PUMA, FSC, TNC and IBC - all ICAA partners working with indigenous groups.
Other courses are repeated by popular demand. For example, the cost – benefit course (Herramientas Económicas para el Análisis Económico y Ambiental de Proyectos de Desarrollo) offered in Santa Cruz September, 2008 will be offered again in September 2009 as an advanced course targeting economists or government decision-makers. A virtual distance training course (Distance Training for Trainers Program -DTTP) focusing on proposed IIRSA infrastructure development projects was organized in March to reach a larger audience in a cost-effective manner. A new distance learning climate change course is scheduled for November 2009. Additional courses include gender, conservation, and indigenous resource management and seminars that address informal mining activities and deforestation.
Apart from the process of updating the needs of partners, the Support Unit is developing training activities for 2010 and 2011. The remainder of 2009 provides the following courses:
Courses scheduled for 2010
