Fellowships awarded
New Fellowships
46th session of the International Tropical Timber Council
46th session of the International Tropical Timber Council
Twenty fellowships were awarded at the 46th session of the International Tropical Timber Council in December 2010. The newest group of fellowship recipients represents 15 different countries and includes eight female fellows.
ITTO offers fellowships through the Freezailah Fellowship Fund to promote human resource development and to strengthen professional expertise in member countries in tropical forestry and related disciplines. The goal is to promote the sustainable management of tropical forests, the efficient use and processing of tropical timber, and better economic information about the international trade in tropical timber.
Awardees are listed as follows:
Ms. Francia Helena Bernal Toro (Columbia)
Participating in the 5th International Wildland Fire Conference - Wildfire 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa
Mr. Temitope Israel Borokini (Nigeria)
Participating in the2011 Effective Conservation Leadership Course at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
Ms. EstelaMarjorie Espiritu Tello (Peru)
Undertaking a Masters Program in "Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests and Biodiversity" at CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Ntogang Innocentia Forbu (Cameroon)
Participating in the training internship program in “Conservation Science and Policy”at the International Center for the Study and Conservation of Nature in Johannesburg, South Africa
Mr. Ratu Vuki George (Fiji)
Carrying out Ph.D. research in "Developing a Wood Biomass Model Arising from Forest Residues and Energy Wood Plantations: A Fiji Case Study" at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Mr. René Bernadin Jiofack Tafokou (Cameroon)
Preparing a technical report on "Evaluation of Potential for Domestication and Management of Populations of Allanblackia floribunda ( Guttiferae ) and Tetracarpidium conophorum (Euphorbiaceae) : Two Species Providing NWFPs in Cameroon"
Ms. Sabina Lamichhane (Nepal)
Undertaking a Masters Program on Natural Resource Management and Rural Development at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry in Pokhara, Nepal
Ms. Shook Ling Low (Malaysia)
Undertaking a Microscopy Training at Palynology Laboratory in Vienna, Austria and participating in the International Congress of Systematic Evolutionary Biology, the12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biology Systematic and Biosystematics Conference in Berlin, Germany
Mr.Kadim Martana (Indonesia)
Undertaking a Ph.D. Program in Forestry at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand
Mr. Pierre Migolet (Gabon)
Undertaking a short training course on "Radar Image Processing and Programming" at Matlab Laboratory of Electronics and Signal Processing ( LETS), at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Polytechnique , the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon
Dr. Wenceslas Steeve Mounguengui (Gabon)
Undertaking a short training program on "Degradation capacity of three wood decay fungi isolated in the lumberyards of Gabon" at Laboratoire d’Etude et de Recherche sur le Matériau Bois (LERMaB) in Nancy, France
Ms. Nana Yaa Nyarko-Duah (Ghana)
Carrying out Masters research on "Effect of mixture stands on Hypsipyla robusta attacks and the growth of the African mahogany" at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana
Ms. Essotebemime Padakale (Togo)
Carrying out PhD research on "The Parks of Parkia biglobosa in Togo: Distribution, Structure , Productivity and Socio-Economic" at the University of Lomé in Lomé, Togo
Dr. Adama Ouattara (Cote d'Ivoire)
Carrying out research on "Mapping the savannah-forests of northeastern Cote d’Ivoire using digital satellite imagery: their spatial extent and timber resources content in Cote d'Ivoire"
Mr. Anand Ramotar Roopsind (Guyana)
Undertaking a short training course on "Competing claims on natural resources-professional qualities for managing conflicts in natural resource management towards sustainable development" at Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation in Wageningen, the Netherlands
Ing. Eugenia Catalina Ruiz Osorio (Columbia)
Undertaking a Masters Program in "Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests and Biodiversity" at CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Mr. Pratap Sundar Shrestha (Nepal)
Undertaking a Masters Program in Forestry at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry in Pokhara, Nepal
Dr. Sanjay Singh (India)
Participating in the International Forestry Conference on Planted Teak Forest: A Globally Emerging Forest Resource at Guanacaste, Cost Rica
Mr. Stephen Lartey Tekpetey (Ghana)
Preparing and publishing “A Handbook of Bamboo Resources in Ghana”
Mr. Carlos Vargas Oro (Panama)
Undertaking a Masters research on " Assessment of the Current Situation of the Mangrove Ecosystem Forest Cover through the Interpretation of Land Use Changes in the District of David , Chiriqui , Panama " at the International Maritime University of Panama, in Panama
Participating in the 5th International Wildland Fire Conference - Wildfire 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa
Mr. Temitope Israel Borokini (Nigeria)
Participating in the2011 Effective Conservation Leadership Course at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
Ms. EstelaMarjorie Espiritu Tello (Peru)
Undertaking a Masters Program in "Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests and Biodiversity" at CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Ntogang Innocentia Forbu (Cameroon)
Participating in the training internship program in “Conservation Science and Policy”at the International Center for the Study and Conservation of Nature in Johannesburg, South Africa
Mr. Ratu Vuki George (Fiji)
Carrying out Ph.D. research in "Developing a Wood Biomass Model Arising from Forest Residues and Energy Wood Plantations: A Fiji Case Study" at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Mr. René Bernadin Jiofack Tafokou (Cameroon)
Preparing a technical report on "Evaluation of Potential for Domestication and Management of Populations of Allanblackia floribunda ( Guttiferae ) and Tetracarpidium conophorum (Euphorbiaceae) : Two Species Providing NWFPs in Cameroon"
Ms. Sabina Lamichhane (Nepal)
Undertaking a Masters Program on Natural Resource Management and Rural Development at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry in Pokhara, Nepal
Ms. Shook Ling Low (Malaysia)
Undertaking a Microscopy Training at Palynology Laboratory in Vienna, Austria and participating in the International Congress of Systematic Evolutionary Biology, the12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biology Systematic and Biosystematics Conference in Berlin, Germany
Mr.Kadim Martana (Indonesia)
Undertaking a Ph.D. Program in Forestry at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand
Mr. Pierre Migolet (Gabon)
Undertaking a short training course on "Radar Image Processing and Programming" at Matlab Laboratory of Electronics and Signal Processing ( LETS), at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Polytechnique , the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon
Dr. Wenceslas Steeve Mounguengui (Gabon)
Undertaking a short training program on "Degradation capacity of three wood decay fungi isolated in the lumberyards of Gabon" at Laboratoire d’Etude et de Recherche sur le Matériau Bois (LERMaB) in Nancy, France
Ms. Nana Yaa Nyarko-Duah (Ghana)
Carrying out Masters research on "Effect of mixture stands on Hypsipyla robusta attacks and the growth of the African mahogany" at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana
Ms. Essotebemime Padakale (Togo)
Carrying out PhD research on "The Parks of Parkia biglobosa in Togo: Distribution, Structure , Productivity and Socio-Economic" at the University of Lomé in Lomé, Togo
Dr. Adama Ouattara (Cote d'Ivoire)
Carrying out research on "Mapping the savannah-forests of northeastern Cote d’Ivoire using digital satellite imagery: their spatial extent and timber resources content in Cote d'Ivoire"
Mr. Anand Ramotar Roopsind (Guyana)
Undertaking a short training course on "Competing claims on natural resources-professional qualities for managing conflicts in natural resource management towards sustainable development" at Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation in Wageningen, the Netherlands
Ing. Eugenia Catalina Ruiz Osorio (Columbia)
Undertaking a Masters Program in "Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests and Biodiversity" at CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Mr. Pratap Sundar Shrestha (Nepal)
Undertaking a Masters Program in Forestry at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry in Pokhara, Nepal
Dr. Sanjay Singh (India)
Participating in the International Forestry Conference on Planted Teak Forest: A Globally Emerging Forest Resource at Guanacaste, Cost Rica
Mr. Stephen Lartey Tekpetey (Ghana)
Preparing and publishing “A Handbook of Bamboo Resources in Ghana”
Mr. Carlos Vargas Oro (Panama)
Undertaking a Masters research on " Assessment of the Current Situation of the Mangrove Ecosystem Forest Cover through the Interpretation of Land Use Changes in the District of David , Chiriqui , Panama " at the International Maritime University of Panama, in Panama