[botswanapredatorforum] June 4-9, 2012 in Botswana: HWCC "Transforming Conflict" Training -- several scholarships!
- From: "Rebecca Klein" <rebecca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:45:28 +0200
Please see below and spread the word!! (More information will be available by
March 7th at www.humanwildlifeconflict.org.)
All the best,
Francine Madden
Executive Director, Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration (HWCC)
The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is pleased to announce that it
will host the Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration's (HWCC) "Analyzing and
Transforming Conflict to Create Sustainable Solutions for People and Wildlife"
training in Gaborone, Botswana from June 4-9th, 2012. With grant support from
the US Department of State, this HWCC training will serve only professionals
working in countries within the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Several full scholarships (registration, lodging, food and travel) are
available to Africans from SADC countries - criteria/application requirements
for scholarships are below. A small handful of additional non-sponsored spaces
are also available for a fee on a first-come-first-serve basis to any
professional working in SADC countries who may not meet the other criteria
below. To apply for the scholarship, please review the requirements under
"Scholarship Applicants" below and send your application materials to
SCBItraining@xxxxxx with the text "HWCC scholarship application" in the subject
line.
To register for one of the open seats, without the scholarship, please visit
HWCC's website for details on who should apply and registration fee information
(www.humanwildlifeconflict.org under "conflict training" and "Botswana").
Information on who should apply and costs are also included below under
"Fee-based Registration".
Scholarship Applicants:
Scholarship applications are due by March 26, 2012. We actively seek to create
gender balance in these trainings. Female professionals are encouraged to
apply. Awardees will be notified by email by April 20th. Registration for paid
seats is due by May 4, 2012 but you are encouraged to register early, as recent
trainings have sold out before the registration deadline.
Obligations and commitments of scholarship winners:
1. Participation in all days of an intensive six day training in June, 2012
(arrival, Sunday June 3rd; departure Sunday, June 10th)
2. A commitment to share lessons learned through mini-trainings led by
scholarship winner and conducted for a minimum of 35 colleagues, stakeholders
and others relevant to participants' work.
3. Provision of a brief report by November 2012 to HWCC on each of the
following: (1) the participants' progress in implementing and integrating the
plan developed during the training, (2) summaries of the mini-trainings
conducted to share lessons learned, (3) any evidence of change in their
institution or project as a result of the conflict intervention plans they
initiated, and (4) participation record, including names and institutions of
those who participated in the mini-trainings.
4. Availability and interest of participant to continue to communicate with
and develop a community of practice with the other participants in the training
and with their colleagues across Southern Africa. This is necessary so that a
community of practice around transforming conflict begins to develop across the
region.
Applicants must submit the following by March 21, 2012 to be considered for the
scholarship:
1. A 2 page description of your work, position and project as it relates to
human-wildlife conflict or other wildlife conservation-related conflicts. In
particular, please describe the human-human conflicts about wildlife that may
impede upon your ability to achieve your conservation goals. Please include
responses to the following in your summary and provide all answers in a single
MS Word document submitted to SCBItraining@xxxxxx with "HWCC scholarship
application" written in the subject line of the email:
a. Provide your name, gender, contact information, organizational
affiliation, title, major responsibilities and brief job description. (½ page
in length)
b. Briefly describe the area of conservation importance in which you work
and a brief summary of the human-human conflicts (or potential for conflicts)
that exist that may impede your ability to achieve all of your desired
conservation goals. (1/2 page in length)
c. Describe how you would benefit from the training. Details on the
training are available at www.humanwildlifeconflict.org under "Conflict
Training" and "Botswana". d. Describe how you would benefit from developing
a community of practice and communication with a broader network of
stakeholders both within your project area and country and within SADC. How
would others benefit from your participation in and leadership role in creating
a community of practice around transforming conservation conflicts across SADC.
(1/4 page in length)
e. d. Explain your commitment to sharing what you've learned in the
training with your institution, project and with the stakeholders with whom you
work. Please provide specifics (Who? How? When? Where?) as to how you will
share what you've learned post-training, as well as what limitations you
foresee in making these mini-trainings happen. You must have the support of
your supervisor and institution in terms of time (1/2 day session for a minimum
of 2 sessions plus travel time) and travel costs to ensure you can deliver a
mini-training/sharing of lessons learned session to a minimum of 35 people in
at least two different sessions. These sessions can be integrated as part of
your existing work plans. (1/2 page in length)
e. Please provide an estimate of your travel costs to Gaborone, Botswana.
3. Please provide a letter of support from your supervisor. Your
supervisor's support should include: 1. Support to build your capacity to
analyze human conflict dynamics around wildlife issues and more holistically
and effectively address wildlife conflicts as a result, 2. Improve
cross-border cooperation and collaboration around human-wildlife conflicts and
wildlife conservation issues in SADC, 3. Lay the groundwork for and begin
building a community of practice across SADC for the improved and shared
capacity of African professionals to address conflict in conservation. 4,
Develop and implement a share-the-training effort so that the capacity benefits
to current scholarship winners also benefits wider communities of staff,
colleagues, stakeholders and field professionals across SADC (35 conservation
professionals and/or stakeholders per scholarship participant), 5. Empower the
scholarship winner to be more effective not only in addressing wildlife issues,
but also in ensuring that the communities they serve, those that support (or
are asked to support) wildlife conservation, have a positive and equitable
voice in wildlife
4. Please provide your current CV.
Fee-Based Registration
A handful of non-sponsored spaces are also available for this HWCC training for
a fee on a first-come-first-serve basis to any professional working in SADC
countries who may not meet the other criteria for scholarship applicants. The
cost of the six-day training is $1500 USD. This fee covers registration for the
course, all course materials and a daily lunch, but it does not cover room and
board during the training period. Registration for paid seats is due by May 4,
2012 but you are encouraged to register early, as recent trainings have sold
out before the registration deadline.
Participants who should register for the fee-based seats, without applying for
the scholarship, include:
<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Professionals or students
working/studying in SADC who are not African citizens
<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Those who do not feel they can
fulfill the obligations in the application process or of the implementation and
reporting requirements of scholarship recipients, including the requirement to
facilitate mini-trainings and document changes in their work
<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Those who want a guaranteed
place in the training now. (We anticipate based on past scholarship programs
that this will be a very highly competitive process.)
<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Students or other professionals
who have a strong interest in this topic but are not currently working in a
position/project where they would be considered ideal for the scholarship
program.
The Rationale:
Wildlife conservation professionals continually deal with the complexities of
human conflict in their conservation efforts. Conflicts that are seemingly
between people and wildlife are more often conflicts between people about
wildlife. Unfortunately, these issues at the center of conservation conflicts
often serve as proxies for underlying social conflicts, including struggles
over group recognition, identity, and status. Too often sound conservation
programming falters because it fails to address or ignores the multiple levels
of conflict and the complex web of entrenched interests common to most
conservation contexts. For instance, we may limit our understanding of and
capacity to address the needs and concerns of local people by narrowly focusing
our efforts on economic fixes, livelihood interests and tactical solutions to
wildlife depredation, when more elusive factors such as empowerment, respect
and trust are among the unspoken and pervasive concerns that may ultimately
undermine conservation's efforts, even those designed to offset the tangible
costs of conservation to local people. Thus, it is critical that we advance
wildlife conservation professionals proficient at analyzing and addressing
complex conservation conflicts.
In June 2012, HWCC will facilitate a capacity building workshop in Botswana for
conservation professionals working on human-wildlife conflict (HWC) across
SADC. Through these scholarships, we hope to specifically build capacity of and
empower African citizens who have or may be afforded the capacity to influence
wildlife conservation activities on the ground locally as well as across the
region, but may not be currently in a position to afford the costs associated
with participation in this capacity building process. This grant will support
the cost of their participation, travel, lodging and meals. We anticipate
significant secondary "ripple effects" post-training as a result of a
specialized trainer-of-trainers session conducted during the June capacity
building workshop and specifically designed for these African conservationists.
Further, the selection process to determine which individuals will participate
in the capacity building workshop is designed to yield participants with the
capacity to nurture and grow a community of practice across the entire region.
And, by choosing individuals with influence and outreach potential we can
ensure that the lessons they learn from the training will influence not only
their actions on the ground, but those of their staff, colleagues and
collaborators, as well.
The Training:
HWCC experiential courses draw upon the best practices for addressing complex
conservation conflicts and cultivating sustainable conservation solutions.
Employing principles and strategies identified and developed by the
Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration, participants will design and implement a
Conservation Conflict Intervention Plan (CCIP) individually tailored for their
respective field site or other professional focus. HWCC's collaborative
learning process begins by addressing the theory, principles and practice of
transforming complex conservation conflicts into positive, sustainable change.
Participants improve their capacity to analyze complex conflict dynamics,
anticipate and address conflicts as they arise, and address long-standing
conflicts that may impede new progress. By accurately analyzing conflicts and
facilitating appropriate processes for addressing them, professionals can
determine root causes, build a foundation for trust and respect among
stakeholders, and unearth fertile ground for sowing and cultivating sustainable
conservation solutions.
Specifically, participants will learn how to apply a variety of tools to
conduct a multi-level conflict analyses and will demonstrate those tools using
tailored case studies. Participants will learn essential theory, skills,
strategies and processes, all of which are critical to dealing effectively with
a variety of conflict situations. Participants will learn how to design and
lead multi-stakeholder decision making processes and will be afforded
opportunities to test their learning and practice in a supportive setting. They
will also investigate the principles of designing long term conservation
conflict transformation strategies. This will include exploring how to use
interventions addressing conservation conflict as entry points to transform the
longer-term, structural and systemic conflicts that may undermine conservation
goals. Even though the roots of these conflicts may have their beginnings in
other sectors of society, their impacts are felt profoundly in conservation
realities. Participants will leave this training with an individual
Conservation Conflict Intervention Plan (CCIP) to address both the immediate
conflict intervention and longer-term strategic vision and goals for their
work.
Participants of the HWCC training will develop a community of practice around
conservation conflict resolution, using a common language to investigate
conflict dilemmas, a shared set of tools and approaches to analyze and address
conflict, and a community of resource professionals who can continue to provide
mutual support in addressing conflict in their efforts to conserve wildlife and
wild places.
--
Francine Madden
Co-Founder/Executive Director
Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration (HWCC)
c/o The Wildlife Society
5410 Grosvenor Lane, Ste 200
Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
202 986 0067 (office)
202 746 4421 (cell)
www.humanwildlifeconflict.org
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