Extending Successful Community-Based Forest
Management in Response to Climate Change
Workshop Program
Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 May, 2011
Raffles Hotel Le Royal
92 Rukhak Vithei Daun Penh
Sangkat Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh
Telephone: + 855 23 981 888
Facsimile: + 855 23 981 168
Day 1: Wednesday 25 May, ‘11
8:30 AM
Tea and Coffee
9:00 AM
- 9:30 AM
Official Welcome
Dr Paul McShane
Monash University
9:05 AM
Remarks by Special Guest 1
H.E. Chea Sam Ang, Deputy-Director
Forestry Administration, Cambodia
9:10 AM
Remarks by Special Guest 2
Dr Ajit Banerjee
Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
9:15 AM
Vote of Thanks
SESSION ONE
Dr Paul McShane
Monash University
Chair: H.E. Chea Sam Ang
Dr Paul McShane
Monash University
9:30 AM
- 10:00 AM
Community-based Forest Management: Beyond the
Kolkata Workshop
10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Community Forestry Carbon Credit Pilot
Project in Cambodia
10:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Morning Tea
11:00 AM
- 11:30 AM
The Problem of Community Forestry and
Dr Ajit Banerjee
its Remedial Measures: Indian Context Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
11:30 AM
Participatory Biodiversity Protection in
- 12:00 NOON Protected Forests
12:00 NOON
- 12:30 PM
Current Issues: Viet Nam
12:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
Lunch
Mr Long Ratanakoma
Department of Forestry and
Community Forestry, Cambodia
Mr Hem Chan Rithy
Forestry Administration, Cambodia
Mr Hoang Lien Son
Forest Science Institute, Viet Nam
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SESSION TWO
Chair: Dr Ajit Banerjee
Mr Horm Visal, Deputy Chief
Forestry Office of Cambodia
1:30 PM
- 2:00 PM
Community Forestry Development in Cambodia
2:00 PM
- 2:30 PM
Understanding Forest Governance: Issues
related to Implementation of FRA
and its Implications on Forest
Dependent Communities
2:30 PM
- 3:00 PM
Community-based Forest Management in REDD Era:
Dr Niken Sakuntaledewi
Lessons from Indonesia
Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia
3:00 PM
- 3:30 PM
Afternoon Tea
3:30 PM
- 4:30 PM
Discussion Session
4:30 PM
Close
6:30 PM
Welcome Dinner (aboard the ‘Kanika’, Mekong River). Departure point is the
docks adjacent the Himawarri Hotel and the Cambodiana Hotel.
Dr M. Gopinath Reddy
Centre for Economic & Social Studies
Nizamiah Observatory
Begumbet, Hyderabad, India
For guests staying at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal; please meet in the foyer of the
Hotel at 6:00 p.m., for transfer to the docks.
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Day 2: Thursday 26 May, ‘11
9:00 AM
Tea and Coffee
SESSION THREE
Chair: Mr Hoang Lien Son
9:30 AM
- 10:00 AM
Forestry Policy Issues: India
Dr Atanu K. Raha
Chief Conservator of Forests
Government of West Bengal, India
10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Children Participation and Adaptation:
Policy Perspective
Dr Prabir Majumdar
Alternative Technology Association
Melbourne, Australia
10:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Morning Tea
SESSION FOUR
11:00 AM
- 11:30 AM
Chair: Dr Paul McShane
Community-based Protected Forest Management
11:30 AM
Agro-forestry: Concept and Practices Towards
- 12:00 NOON Better Land Management
12:00 NOON
- 1:00 PM
Open Discussion: Policy Responses to
Community-based Forest Management
1:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM
- 2:30 PM
Synthesis
2:30 PM
- 3:30 PM
Open Discussion: Developing Policy Briefs
3:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Next Steps
4:00 PM
- 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks and Afternoon Tea
Mr Chheang Dany
Forestry Office of Cambodia
Mr Chay Chetha
Forestry Office of Cambodia
Dr Paul McShane
Monash University
Dr Paul McShane
Monash University
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