P. 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