Jharkhand Participatory Forestry: Social Assessment Learning Program, Jharkhand, India

The workshop and training was designed and organized in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Forests, Government of Jharkhand, India, as part of the preparation for a proposed project on participatory forest management.

The workshop took place between February 3-9, 2004, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, and was designed to provide an introduction to the framework, concepts and tools of Social Assessment. The event included around 85-90 local participants from various levels of the Forest Department, non-governmental organizations, community based organizations, academics, and consulting agencies.

Please view the press release from the workshop (in English (pdf - 99kb) and in Hindi (pdf - 85kb) ), as well as the main presentations (ppt - 7866kb) made during the workshop.