Capacity Development
Training Task Force
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The
Task Force Leader
Mr. James BARBORAK
Director, Protected Areas and Corridor Conservation
Center for Biodiversity Conservation Mexico and Central America
Conservation International
Apartado 8-3870
San Josee
1000
Costa Rica
Tel: ++50 (6) 234 5349
Fax: ++50 (6) 234 5349
Email: jbarborak@conservation.org
www.wcs.org
The Training and Protected
Areas Programme
- Contact members of task force,
confirm membership, identify co-chair, confirm
activities. Product: Rejuvenated, functioning
task force providing information
- Collect and compile current
information on regional centres offering protected
area training. Product: List of regional centres,
with course details and contact information
- Develop
outline for best practice guideline #6 on Training
and Protected Areas, to be published by IUCN
and the University of Wales, Cardiff. Product:
Outline for comment and revision, then final
manuscript.
- Develop outline for special
issue of Parks journal on Training and Protected
Areas. Product: Outline, then manuscript for
special issue.
- Compile list of published information,
e.g. articles, manuals, on training for protected
areas. Product: Annotated bibliography re. Training
for protected areas.
- Compile information from surveys,
publications, etc. on protected area training
needs. Product: Report on training needs.
- Create and enter information
into a Web site on protected area training.
Product: Operating web site, linked to WCPA,
on protected area training
- Collect and compile information
on protected area training available in places
other than regional centres. Product: List of
protected area training opportunities, courses,
contacts - in hard copy and on web site
- Prepare a fund raising proposal
to facilitate work of task force based on several
existing proposals. Product: New fund raising
proposal for submission to potential donors.
- Identify existing and potential
sources of funding to enable protected area
managers to gain training. Product: List of
funding sources
- Undertake, on a consultancy
basis, one or more PA training projects. Product:
Training courses, training manual, trained PA
personnel.
- Respond on behalf of IUCN-WCPA
to enquiries about training. Product: Responses
to enquiries.
Key Issues
It has long been realised that the
effective development and management of protected
areas (PAs) depends substantially on the education
and training of those involved with them. Presently,
such education and training are considered inadequate
quantitatively, qualitatively thematically and geographically,
especially in developing countries. The Task Force was established
in 1996. The Terms of Reference were approved
by the WCPA Steering Committee in October 1996.
These Terms of Reference will continue to guide
the Task Force. The Task Force membership, co-chair,
details of activities and scheduling are being
updated.
Progress Reports were submitted
in April 1997, December 1997 and June 1998.
The objectives of the Task Force
on Training (TFT) are to:
- Compile and distribute a directory
of information on existing training courses
on PA management, and sources of funding for
current and potential PA managers to participate
in such courses.
- Assess the adequacy and appropriateness
of existing courses and funding.
- Recommend to WCPA how inadequacies
in the current array of training courses and
funding should, and could be addressed.
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