Bourses attribuées

New fellowships

43rd session of the International Tropical Timber Council

43rd session of the International Tropical Timber Council

Twenty-two fellowships were awarded at the 43rd session of the International Tropical Timber Council in November 2007. The newest group of fellowship recipients represents 17 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:

Mr. Nelson Abila (Nigeria)
Short Training Internship on” Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Ecosystem Service Valuation” at Winrock International, Arlington, US
Mr. Winston Adams Asante (Ghana)
Master's Research on " Controlled Felling and Skidder Disturbance in Reduced Impact Logging" at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Mr. Mvondo Samuel Assembe (Cameroon)
PhD Research on "Sustainable Forests Management Principles and International Customary Law" at the University of Joensuu, Finland
Mr. Constantino Aucca Chutas (Peru)
Training Program on “the Use and Management of Cloud Forests in the Abra Patricia - Alto Nieva Private Conservation Area”
Ms. Teodora Dogup Balangcod (Philippines)
Ph.D Thesis entitled "Geographic Distribution, Ecology and Reproductive Biology of Lilium philippinense Baker, An Endemic Species in the Cordillera Central Range, Luzon Island, Philippines" at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
Mr. Sharad Kumar Baral (Nepal)
Masters Research on "Impacts of Forest Management on Selected Ecosystem Properties: A Case Study from Two Community Forests of Mid-hills in Nepal" at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Mr. Diego Fernando Bermeo (Ecuador)
Masters Program in “Management and Conservation of Tropical Forest and Biodiversity” at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Savita Bisht (India)
Preparation of a technical document on "NTFPs in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, India"
Ms. Raquel Correas Bulegio (Bolivia)
Masters Program in “Forest Science” at la Universidad Mayor de San Simon in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Dr. Claudio Henrique Soares Del Menezzi (Brazil)
Participation in the 10th World Conference on Timber Engineering in Miyazaki, Japan
Mr. Arun Dhakal (Nepal)
Preparation of Technical Document on “Productivity and Silviculture of Five Economically Important Timber Species of Central Terai of Nepal”
Mr. Oyétoundé Djiwa (Togo)
Masters Thesis on “Participation of Populations in the Sustainable Management of Community Forests in Francophone West Africa: Case of Togo” at ENGREF, Montpellier, France
Mr. Jean-Pierre Kampé (Congo)
Ph.D. Thesis on "Influence of the parameters of the soil on the space distribution and the growth of Pterocarpus soyauxii Taubert (Fabaceae) and its associated flora in Mayombe" at the Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Congo
Mr. Kouakou Bob Kouadio (Cote d'Ivoire)
Short Training Course on "Forest Management Tools" at SupAgro, Institut des Régions Chaudes, , Montpellier, France
Ms. Alba Lucia Marin Valencia (Colombia)
Masters Program in “Wild Area and Nature Conservation” at la Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Mr. Pierre Paul Mbarga (Cameroon)
Short Training Course on “Forest Management Tools” at SupAgro, Institut des Régions Chaudes, , Montpellier, France
Ms. Mercy Che Ndikum (Cameroon)
Post-Graduate Diploma Course in “Sustainable Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Management in the Tropics and Sub-tropics at the Institute for the Environment, Forests and Landscape Research” at the University of Jena in Jena, Germany
Ms. Gladys Nchang Neba (Cameroon)
Horticultural Internship Programme of Practical Work Experience at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom
Ms. Philomène Nkoulou née Bella Ewodo (Gabon)
DESS Program in “Economics and Sustainable Forest Management” at Institut National des Sciences de Gestion, Libreville, Gabon
Mr. Caleb Boateng Ofori (Ghana)
Ph.D. Research on "Monitoring Forest Resources Using amphibians as Indicators” at Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Mr. Josua Vu Ralulu (Fiji)
National Diploma in “Wood Manufacturing” at the Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua, New Zealand
Ms. Rina Susanti (Indonesia)
MSc Program in “Tropical Forestry and Management” at Technishe Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany