Administration: Support to Implement Personnel Training

Draft Tool Matrix

Capacity Building
Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative
Emerging Issues
Wetlands

IV. Administration
b. Support to Implement Administration/Training of Personnel

North American Bat Conservation Partnership is an alliance of bat researchers, non-governmental organizations, and agencies from Mexico, Canada, and United States to support continent-wide bat conservation efforts. NABCP has a Strategic Plan that identifies conservation priorities, and communication network information and resources that are provided to aid local bat research, conservation, and education initiatives.
From: Bat Conservation International, www.batcon.org. (see: http://www.batcon.org/nabcp/newsite/index.html.)
Contact: dtaylor@batcon.org.

Building on Experience (a capacity-building program), and individual Partner support programs (such as sabbaticals) can provide support.
From: Birdlife International, www.birdlife.org.
Contact: Rob Clay, rob@guyra.org.py.

Training course on managing wetlands, which takes place every one or two years, with participants from neighboring countries. The next course is in March 2004.
From: Colombia - Direccion de Ecosistemas, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente.
Contact: María Rivera, mrivera@minambiente.gov.co or jrivera@impsat.net.co, T: 0057 1 3323434 ext 411.

CMS Small Grants Programme could fund programs on administration and training of personnel.
From: Convention on Migratory Species, www.wcmc.org.uk/cms.
Contact: Lyle Glowka, lglowka@cms.unep.de.

Bird Banding Assistant Course (7 days), designed for serious birders and wildlife personnel who wish to become involved in bird monitoring projects (approved by the North American Banding Council).
Fieldwork experience in migration monitoring and Monitoring Aviary Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS), for long-term volunteers (free accommodations and possible subsidized meals and travel allowances).
From: Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory, http://www.lslbo.org/.
Contact: Jul Wojnowski, Jul.Wojnowski@lslbo.org, T: (780) 849-7117.

Training programs are provided by international programs of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. National Park Service and others.
From: Partners in Flight, www.partnersinflight.org.
Contact: Terry Rich, Terry_rich@fws.gov.

Support Project to the National Environmental System is an initiative for the protection of wild areas of Paraguay. It focuses in four National Parks and their areas of influence.
From: Paraguay - Proyecto Paraguay Silvestre, http://www.paraguaysilvestre.org.py.
Contact: Cristina Morales, cmorales_py@yahoo.com.

USDS offers an Educational Partnership Program to encourage mutual understanding through cooperation between U.S. colleges and universities and foreign post-secondary institutions. In this program the Department funds proposals for faculty exchanges, curriculum development, collaborative research, and other activities that build competencies on both sides of the exchange in fields related to policy priorities. The Program could be used to develop or strengthen university programs related to wildlife conservation and migratory species in other Western Hemisphere countries. http://exchanges.state.gov/education/partnership/.
From: United States Department of State, http://www.state.gov/.
Contact: Linda Allen, AllenLJ@state.gov.

USFS International Programs support international training and travel by people from the US and other countries, providing funding and Visa/Passport expertise.
From: United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us.
Contact: Jennifer Peterson, International Programs, T: 202-273-4671.

Shorebird Management Workshops address wetland management for various wetland types and geographic regions. The course is both theoretical and practical, providing information on regional migration and nesting chronologies, habitat use, foraging ecology, and identification of shorebirds. A number of levels of training are available including “training the trainers.”
From: Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/.
Contact: Heidi Luquer, Luquer@vermontel.net.

WildAid provides ranger training as well as equipment and ongoing assistance.
From: WildAid, www.wildaid.org.
Contact: Rebecca Respess, Respess@wildaid.org, T: 202 772-1083.

Last updated: November 20, 2008