Fellowships awarded

New fellowships

Twenty-five fellowships were awarded by the International Tropical Timber Organization in June 2008. The newest group of fellowship recipients represents 17 different countries and includes nine 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. Sushma Adhikari (Nepal)
Preparation of a Handbook on "Nusery Techniques of Commercially Important Timber Species of Central Terai of Nepal"
Ms. Zahinda Elikia Amani (Congo)
Master's Program in Reforestation and Forest Management at the University of Laval in Quebec, Canada
Mr. Toe Toe Aung (Myanmar)
Master's Research on " Mangrove Ecological Study for Conservation and Sustainable Management" at Yokohama National University in Yokohama, Japan
Dr. Lawrence Awoyemi (Nigeria)
Study Tour to University of Idaho as a Visiting Research Scholar to work on the project titled "From Waste to Wealth: Production of Biofuels from the Sawmill Wastes of Some Nigeria Indigenous Wood Species"
Mr. Ditorgue Bakèn'na Bakabima (Togo)
DESS Thesis on "Training Period for the Preparation of the
End-of-Programme Report on Timber further Processing: Modeling Analysis of the Inter Tree Heterogeneity of Cedrella" at CRESA Forêt-Bois, Yaounde, Cameroon
Ms. Pamela Mbahno Bindu (Liberia)
Master's Program in Sustainable Forestry and Global Change
Management in the Tropics and Sub Tropics at the University of Applied Sciences in Reutlingen, Germany
Dr. Paul Pinnock Bosu (Ghana)
Effective Leadership and Communication Tools for Environmental Management and Conservation Training Course at Smithsonian Institute in Washington, USA
Mr. Cesar Alberto Carvajal Guerrero (Colombia)
XX International Intensive Course on Diversified Management of Tropical Natural Forests at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Mr. Jorge David Chapas Muralles (Guatemala)
Master’s Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK
Dr. Mohanan Chor-an (India)
9th International Congress of Plant Pathology(ICPP 2008) in Torino, Italy
Mr. Niranjan Dhungana (Nepal)
Master’s Program in Forestry at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry, in Pokhara,Nepal
Mr. Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi (Ghana)
Short Training Course in "Facilitating Multi-stakeholder Processes and Social Learning" at Wageningen International in Wageningen, the Netherlands
Ms. Aneeta Gauchan (Nepal)
Master’s Program in General Forestry at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry in Phkhara,Nepal
Dr. Mochamad Didi Indrawan (Indonesia)
The 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain
Mr. Hemanta Kafley (Nepal)
Training Internship Program in Conservation Science at World Wildlife Fund in Washington DC,USA
Mr. Dana Kao (Cambodia)
Ph.D Research on "Growth Model for Sustainable Productive Cutting Cycle of Tropical Natural Forest Ecosystems" at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan
Ms. Oliveira Martins Lilliane Maria de (Brazil)
XX International Intensive Course in Diversified Management of Natural Tropical Forests at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Mr. Jean Hude Moudingo Ekindi (Cameroon)
DESS Research on "Assessment of Community Participation in Mangrove Forest Restoration in Three Selected Villages of the Dualao-Edea Wildlife Reserve at the University of Yaounde I in Mouanko, Cameroon
Ms. Carmen Marcela Osorio Pérez (Peru)
XX International Intensive Course on Diversified Management of Tropical Natural Forests at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Daniela Pauletto (Brazil)
XX International Intensive Course in Diversified Management of Natural Tropical Forests at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Teresa Rojas Lara (Peru)
Ph.D. Program under the Economic Development Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and Humboldt University in Germany
Mr. Carlos Emilio Samaniego Rojas (Ecuador)
XX International Intensive Course on Diversified Management of Tropical Natural Forests at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Franca Ngondi Tita (Cameroon)
Postgraduate Diploma Course in Forest and Environmental Governance in the Tropics at the International Centre of Forest and Environmental Research in Hagen, Germany
Ms. Wassia Sylvie Toualy (Côte d'Ivoire)
DEA Program in Remote Sensing and GIS at CURAT, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Mr. Othniel Mingang Yila (Nigeria)
Ph.D. Program in Regional and Rural Development Planning at Asian Institute of Technology in Klong Luang, Thailand