Ottow Geissler University, supported by FORCLIME, held a training of trainers (ToT) session for the university’s students and academics from 27 - 30 October 2021 in Jayapura City, Papua Province. The ToT was held in order to support the Ottow Geissler University as it seeks to establish its Educational Forest (Hutan Pendidikan) within the Pasir 6 area of North Jayapura, which is in the territory of the traditional community of Necheibe Ormu.

This training session for the Civitas Academica, particularly the Team involved in the establishment of the Educational Forest, was held in order to teach a number of additional basic skills that are required to be understood and mastered in order to facilitate high-quality, open, fully informed and participatory agreement processes aimed at securing mutual agreements. Decent, comprehensive, informed consent should be communicated to the relevant communities and should address the benefits and impacts that they will experience when a given programme is implemented.

“I hope that this FPIC Training of Trainers will be able to produce good trainers and can be applied in the real world,” explained the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Marine Affairs at Ottow Geissler University, Mr. Simon H. Nenepath, M.Sc., during his opening remarks.

For more information, please contact:
Ruben Yogi, Junior Adviser for GIS and Forest Mapping
Mohammad Sidiq, Strategic Area Manager for Sustainable Forest Management and Coordinator for Papua and West Papua Provinces