Once every year,  ITFC holds an Information Sharing workshop  to discuss research results, conservation challenges and emerging questions.

In keeping with this same tradition, we are pleased to announce that our next workshop is scheduled for 14 – 15 March 2012.

These workshops are organized in close collaboration with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, managers of the Bwindi and Mgahinga Conservation Area. They are an opportunity for stakeholders and partners in conservation and development to get together and present and review research, discuss management implications and concerns, exchange ideas, identify challenges and set priorities. Our last workshop was held in April 2011 and its proceedings can still be viewed on http://www.itfc.org/Workshop2011/Workshop_April11.htm.

The title of the forthcoming workshop is:

‘Key needs, unknowns and research impacts in the Greater Virunga Landscape: are we prepared for change?’

 This is at the same time the closing workshop of the MacArthur project that ITFC has been carrying out since 2009 and the following sub-themes for different sessions are guided by the project’s components:

 A. Capacity building for research to address emerging conservation challenges (=Masters and PhD studies with ITFC)

B. Monitoring and Evaluation to inform conservation and management

C. Research for management: experiences, challenges, needs and priorities (UWA to lead this session)

D. Climate change: challenges and opportunities

E.  Environmental Services (optional).

Please note that this is in principle a workshop by invitation.

For more information about the workshop, kindly contact Fredrick Ssali the 2012 workshop coordinator by email workshop@itfc.org.