Deadline to apply for Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP): 1 October 2013
Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation is organizing the Training on ‘Competing claims on natural resources ‘ in the Netherlands from 3 – 14 March 2014. Support to participate in this training programme is available from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP).
Conventional approaches tend to perceive either the state, or the community, or the market as being capable of offering easy solutions to resource conflicts. Practice, however proves different. To deal with conflicting interests and power imbalances, applicants will need a competing claims approach on natural resources. This two week course provides applicants with tools for natural resource management, based on extensive research. Applicants will apply them directly to case studies provided by participants.
This training is conducted by Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation.
Course objectives–
The overall aim is to contribute to sustainable resources management by building capacity to manage conflicts over natural resources. Upon completion applicants will be able to-
- contextualise and apply analytical frameworks and methodologies to better understand competing claims on natural resources
- apply conflict management approaches and develop competences to manage related change processes
- practice a broad range of skills to manage conflict and facilitate informed negotiation processes
- review institutional arrangements that hamper or foster negotiated outcomes
- share and document cases of competing claims, to become capable of transforming conflict in positive social change
Target audience-
This course is aimed at resource managers, policy-makers, scientists, practitioners, private sector or civil society representatives; mid-career professionals who work in the field of natural resources management. Candidates should meet the following requirements: relevant tertiary education, at least five years of working experience in the NRM sector, competency in English.
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Learn how to apply for the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) to participate in this training programme from this link. Countries eligible to apply for NFP are Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Peru, Albania, Georgia, Philippines, Armenia, Ghana, Rwanda, Autonomous Palestinian Territories, , Guatemala, Senegal, Bangladesh, India, Somalia, Benin, Indonesia, South Africa, Bhutan, Jordan, South Sudan, Bolivia, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Macedonia, Sudan, Burundi, Mali, Surinam, Cambodia, Mongolia, Tanzania, Colombia, Mozambique, Thailand, Djibouti, Myanmar (Burma), , Uganda, DR Congo, Nepal, Vietnam, Egypt, Nicaragua, Yemen, Eritrea, Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe.
