1 February, Thursday
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch Talk with Kalani Souza
Workshop leaders: Kalani Souza, Olohana Foundation
Location: Native American Cultural Center, 26 High Street
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3:30 - 4:30 pm
The Social Dynamics of Stopping Deforestation: Participatory Case Study of Aceh Tamiang
Workshop leaders: Robin Barr, The Forests Trust
Location: Rotunda, Marsh Hall, 360 Prospect Street
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4:30 - 5:30 pm
Global Forest Watch: An Interactive Introduction
Workshop leaders: Andrew Maddocks, World Resources Institute
Location: Room 319, Kroon Hall, 196 Prospect Street
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2 February, Friday
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Keynote Discussion Group: with Christine Padoch
Workshop leaders: ISTF Organizing Committee Members
Location: Room 24, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street
No advanced registration required
Keynote Discussion Group: with Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez
Workshop leaders: Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Keynote and Dr. Liza Comita, Yale Faculty
Location: Room 319, Kroon Hall, 196 Prospect Street
No advanced registration required
Keynote Discussion Group: with Nigel Sizer
Workshop leaders: Nigel Sizer, Keynote and Brad Gentry, Yale Faculty
Location: Room G01, Kroon Hall, 196 Prospect Street
No advanced registration required
Speed Networking
Workshop leaders: ISTF Organizing Committee Members
Location: 3rd Floor Cafe, Kroon Cafe, 196 Prospect Street
No advanced registration required
3 February, Saturday
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Leveraging technological innovation: Connecting forest landscape restoration with competitive forest products supply chains
Workshop leaders: Ruth Nogueron, World Resources Institute; Rene Zamora, World Resources Institute; Alvaro Samyoa, Astrostat
Location: Room 319, Kroon Hall, 196 Prospect Street
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The breakout session will highlight emerging monitoring tools for forest management and landscape restoration. Further, the discussion will focus on how these monitoring tools can support not only legal, competitive and efficient forest products supply chains, but also be used to assess performance, measure impact and incentivize landscape restoration for sustainable forest management purposes.
Breakdown or Breakthrough? Peer-to-Peer Session on the Nuts and Bolts of Project Planning
Workshop leaders: Ruth Metzel, Azuero Earth Project
Location: Room G01, Kroon Hall, 196 Prospect Street
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This session will discuss the major challenges in project development and tropical forest management, and create opportunities for peer-to-peer advice on how to overcome these hurdles to achieve and scale conservation and reforestation outcomes. The breakout session will be organized in 4 tables according to different phases of project development: (1) Project Proposal, Budgeting and Fundraising; (2) Project Planning; (3) Project Implementation and Technologies; and (4) Project Documentation, Reporting and Sustainability. Participants will cycle through each of these tables, discussing the challenges and solutions to challenges in particular phase of project planning. Participants that work in different dimensions of similar issues may offer up new and innovative tactics to each other that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of forest projects.
Mapping the Way for the Reactivated Global International Society of Tropical Foresters
Workshop leaders: Sheila Ward, International Society of Tropical Foresters (parent organization)
Location: Room 32, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street
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The parent International Society of Tropical Foresters is restarting and we need your input! We want your opinions on the base documents for the new ISTF: draft bylaws, chapter guidelines, and guidelines for how to be a global communication network using electronic media. Your reactions will be fed back to the ISTF Reformulation Committee for incorporation in the next round of drafts. Draft documents will be provided before the session, and please read them before coming. But come regardless!
Building Social Capital to Advance Adaptive Capacity
Workshop leaders: Josh Fain, USDA Caribbean Climate Hub
Location: Room 24, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street
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