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First Groen Sebenza para-ecologist training workshop held in Grabouw / South Africa
| From 28th of October until 1st of November 2013 eighteen Groen Sebenza para-ecologists from the Eastern, Western and Northern Cape Province of South Africa participated in a training workshop held in Grabouw / Western Cape Province of South Africa. The para-ecologists are working for 2.5 years with various institutions and organisations in rural areas or small towns where they are involved in biodiversity assessment, monitoring and management.
Groen Sebenza is a Jobs Fund Partnership Project that aims at developing priority skills in the biodiversity sector to create sustainable job opportunities for 800 unemployed graduates and matriculants (for more info go to http://www.sanbi.org/programmes/education-hcd/groen-sebenza). Eighteen of the Groen Sebenza matriculants participated in the para-ecologist training workshop. The workshop included topics like professional performance at the workplace, conflict resolution, reporting, facilitation of meetings and workshops, time management, budget management, team building but also the use of GPS, the taking plant photos for scientific purposes, the value of scientific names for plants and animals etc.
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