Centre of Social Excellence
CountryCameroon, Congo Brazzaville
Province / areaYaoundé
Project typeEducational organisation
Project statusApplications open for 5th session - see links below
Start date01 Jun 2009
Educational institution based in Cameroon, the CSE aims to promote excellence and improve the understanding and linkages between forestry companies and indigenous communities living in the forests of the Congo Basin, encouraging dialogue and sustainable forestry management practices.
The CSE offers a unique one-year programme taught in the classroom and during practical field-based training covering a broad range of social, ethnographic and forestry management topics including participative mapping techniques which aim to incorporate the views and rights of indigenous people living in and around forest concessions. This will not only allow indigenous communities a voice in the use of local resources but also will assist forest companies to work towards attaining Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, the industry standard for responsible and sustainable forest practices.
Updates
- April 2013; Students gain valuable experience through field classes
- July 2012: CSE now accepting applications for its fifth training session, starting January 2013
FIFTH TRAINING SESSION APPLICATIONS:
- download course information
- download application form (PDF version)
- download application form (Word version)
The deadline for applications is 16 December 2012. Candidates who have been shortlisted for interview will be informed by email at the latest 3 January 2013. - Août 2011: candidatures d'étudiants pour 4e Session de janvier 2012 attendues !
Pour le calendrier des cours [PDF]
Pour la présentation de la formation [PDF]
Pour le dossier de candidature [WORD] - July 2011: Capacity building in the Congo Basin
- May 2011: Third group of students awarded their certificates from the CSE
- Dec 2010: Second Class of CSE students graduate
- November 2010: students on fieldtrip: La promotion Mungulu en visite sur le terrain
- August 2010: CSE students go on a fieldtrip
- June 2010: second group of students complete theoretical classes and are in forest companies for practical work, third group of students start theory classes
- April 2010: Le Centre d'Excellence Sociale accueille des visiteurs de marque
- March 2010: Read about the first field visit for the students
- March 2010: First impressions of the second group of students
- February 2010: The pioneer promotion students graduate and the second promotion starts
- September 2009: read an update half way through the students' training
- August 2009: The students start their practical training at partner forest companies
- June 2009: The CSE formally inaugurated
- May 2009: The first students started classes. See the students arriving and get their first reactions
- March 2009: Read about preparations to welcome the students
- February 2009: Read about the CSE presentation and the call for applicants
- Nov 2008: TFT is launching the Centre of Social Excellence (CSE) for the Forests of the Congo Basin
Support for the project
The project receives support from the Fondation Chirac, the Prince Albert II de Monaco Foundation, and the Waterloo Foundation.
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