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Community Forestry Course Overview

This course provides a self-paced 6-hour introduction to community forestry with a focus on Asia-Pacific models. It aims to help students recognize how community forestry can increase local engagement in forest governance, understand different models used in the region, and identify challenges to the approach. The course consists of 5 sessions covering topics like drivers of change, stakeholder roles, case studies, guiding principles, and challenges. Students must complete autograded assessments and a workbook assignment to earn a certificate.

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Community Forestry Course Overview

This course provides a self-paced 6-hour introduction to community forestry with a focus on Asia-Pacific models. It aims to help students recognize how community forestry can increase local engagement in forest governance, understand different models used in the region, and identify challenges to the approach. The course consists of 5 sessions covering topics like drivers of change, stakeholder roles, case studies, guiding principles, and challenges. Students must complete autograded assessments and a workbook assignment to earn a certificate.

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Syllabus

Open e-course
Community Forestry 101
Topic
This course provides an overview of community forestry with focus on the
Asia–Pacific region.

Learning objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
● Recognize community forestry as a way to increase local people’s
engagement in governing and managing forests
● Recognize the diversity of community forestry models in the Asia–Pacific
region
● Apply the principles of community forestry to review models of
community forestry
● Identify challenges to community forestry in your own context

Structure
The course is self-paced and will take about six hours of online work and
two hours of offline assignment to complete.

Sessions Key content


Introduction

Session 1: The ● Drivers of change that called for a rethinking


what and why of of the role of local people in forestry
community forestry ● Definition of community forestry
● Objectives of community forestry

2
Session 2: The ● Benefits that different stakeholders get from
relationship between the forest
people and forests ● Roles that different stakeholders need to play
to ensure forests are managed sustainably

Session 3: Models of ● Examples of different community forestry


community forestry models as practiced in different countries in
the Asia–Pacific

Session 4: Principles ● Principles that guide successful community


of community forestry
forestry

Session 5: Challenges ● Challenges that impede community forestry


to community from achieving its full potential
forestry

Parting words

Competency tag
Basics of community forestry

Prerequisite and prior learning


None

3
Grading policy
A certificate is available upon completion of the course if you pass the
course assessment.

The course uses two types of assessment: autograding and workbook.


● Autograded assessments give immediate feedback. Each question is
assigned a point, listed below the question. You have two attempts to
answer correctly. You need a total grade of 75 percent or higher to pass
the autograded assessment.
● A workbook is an offline assignment. You are required to email your
completed workbook to [Link]@[Link]. Allow time for the
Training and Learning Team to check your workbook and provide a
grade.

Session 1: The what and why 9 points, autograded


of community forestry

Session 2: The relationship between No assessment


people and forests

Session 3: Models of 7 points, autograded


community forestry

4
Session 4: Principles of 6 points, autograded
community forestry

Session 5: Challenges to 9 points, autograded


community forestry

Total 31 points

Workbook Assessed using this rubric:


0 (Insufficient), 1 (Needs
work), 2 (Satisfactory) and
3 (Excellent). You need a
score of 2 or 3 to pass the
course.

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