Fellowships awarded

Spring 2010

Twenty-nine fellowships were awarded by the International Tropical Timber Organization in Spring 2010. The newest group of fellowship recipients represents 14 different countries and includes six 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. Henri-Christian Abo Eyafa'a  (Cameroon)

Program of Engineer of Forestry and Water Management at Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée in Katibougou,  Mali

Mr. Akouèthê Agbogan   (Togo) 

Ph.D Thesis on "Contribution to the Recovery of Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich) Hochst, Lannea microcarpa Engl. & K. Krause and Hematostaphis barteri Hook.f. Three Spontaneous Food Timber of Savannah region in Togo" at the University of Lome,  Togo

Mr. Lord Ameyaw   (Ghana) 

Masters Research on "Farm Forestry: A Viable Option to Poverty Alleviation and Climate Change Amelioration in Ghana" at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi,  Ghana

Mr. Augustine Arthur   (Ghana)

MCITP: Database Developer & Database Administrator & MCPD: Web Developer at KOENIG in New Delhi,  India

Dr. Budi Leksono   (Indonesia)

XXIII IUFRO World Congress 2010 in Seoul,  Korea

Dr. N'Da Hypolite Dibi   (Cote d'Ivoire) 

Preparation of Technical Document on "Contribution of Remote Sensing and GIS to Study Climate Change and Their Interaction on The Forest Dynamics  in Côte d'Ivoire"

Mr. Aimé Effa Meka   (Cameroon)

Masters Program in Cartography,  Remote Sensing,  Geographic Information Systems applied to the Sustainable Land Management at the University of Yaoundé in Yaoundé,  Cameroon

Dr. Abdul Gafur   (Indonesia)

9th International Mycological Congress (IMC9) in Edinburgh,  U.K.

Ing. Patricio Guzmán Bustán   (Ecuador)

International Course in Extension Methodologies for Sustainable Rural Development at CATIE in Turrialba,  Costa Rica

Dr. Ekeoba Matthew Isikhuemen   (Nigeria)

XXIII IUFRO World Congress 2010 in Seoul,  Korea

Dr. Shadananan Nair Krishnapillai   (India) 

18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference in Edinburgh,  Scotland,  U.K.

Mr. Humphrey Menyong Mbelli   (Cameroon)

Ph.D. Research on "A Study of The Diversity and Population Dynamics of Mammals in Relation to Anthropogenic Disturbances in Forest Management Unites of South Cameroon" at  University of Yaoundé I in Yaoundé,  Cameroon

Ms. Nina  Mindawati   (Indonesia)

Ph.D. Research on "Study on Site Quality of Eucalyptus urograndis Industrial Plantation Forest as Raw Material of Pulp in Sustainable Forest Management” at Bogor Agricultural Univeristy, Bogor, Indonesia

Dr. Gangadharappa  Nadiagara Rudrappa   (India) 

18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, U. K.

Mr. Columbus Njualem Ndeloa   (Cameroon)

XXIII IUFRO World Congress 2010 in Seoul, Korea

Ms. Laxmi Kumari Neupane   (Nepal) 

Masters Research on "Distribution pattern and Economic Importance of Dabergia Latifolia and Its Associated Species on Rural Livelihood in Nepal" at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry in Pokhara, Nepal

Mr. Brice Nganda   (Gabon)

Maters Program in Development and Integrated Management of Territories at National Museum of Natural History with Institut AgroParis Tech and University of Montpelier 2 in Montpellier, France

Dr. Naresworo  Nugroho   (Indonesia) 

11th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2010 in Trentino, Italy

Ms. Deborah Oluwaseyi Ogundolapo   (Nigeria)

Short Course in Spatial Ecology, Geospatial Analysis and Remote Sensing for Conservation at Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability of Smithsonian Institution, Virginia, U.S.A.

Ing. Tatiana Lizbeth Ojeda Luna   (Ecuador)

5th International Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments meeting and the Global Change and the World's Mountains Conference in Perth, Scotland, U.K.

Mr. Adedeji Robert Ojo   (Nigeria)

PhD Research on "Characterization of the Wood Properties of Borassus aethiopum (Mart) From Different Ecological Zones in Nigeria" at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria

Ing. Nathaly Rodríguez Santos   (Colombia)

XXIII IUFRO World Congress 2010 in Seoul, Korea

Mr. Calros Andrés Rogríguez Plazas   (Colombia)

Publication of "Study of timber markets in the Caribbean Region of Colombia for forest species: Bombacopsis quinata,  Eucalyptus tereticornis,  Tectona grandis and Gmelina arborea"

Ing. Nestor Javier Sagui Gómez   (Guatemala)

XXII International Intensive Course in Diversified Management of Tropical Natural Forests at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica

Mr. Mustapha Kaluwe Seidu   (Ghana)

Darwin Scholarship Programme :Monitoring and Communicating Biodiversity Course at Field Study Council in Shrewbury,U.K.

Dr. Vindhya Prasad Tewari   (India)

XXIII IUFRO World Congress 2010 in Seoul, Korea

Ms. Wai Wai Than   (Myanmar) 

XXIII IUFRO World Congress 2010 in Seoul, Korea

Dr. Thaung Naing Oo   (Myanmar)

Preparation of Document entitled "Assessment on Community Forestry Management and Its Development with Special Reference to Three Critical Areas of Myanmar"

Ms. Patricia Pamela Torres Muñoz   (Peru)

XXII International Intensive Course in Diversified Management of Tropical Natural Forests at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica