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First Groen Sebenza para-ecologist training workshop held in Grabouw / South Africa, October 2013
Back (from left to right): Mzukisi, Marius Lombard, Landiso Mila, Someleze Mgcuwa, Hlengiwe Mtshali, Marcus de Goede, Mahlatse Mogale, Vathiswe Zikishe
Middle: Mluleki Nkosi, Anri Marais, Liezel Knight, Siphosethu Moshani, Khululwa Gxekwa, Areefa Tietis, Bettina Koelle, Bongeka Ntola
Front: Mxolisi Ngongoma, Sibusisu Mqadi, Mzamo Dlamini, Karen Herman
| The Workshop
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. 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 of plant photos for scientific purposes, the value of scientific names for plants and animals etc. |
Groen Sebenza
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 www.sanbi.org/programmes/education-hcd/groen-sebenza).
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The second training workshop for the para-ecologists of the Future Okavango project
is taking place in Seronga / Botswana from July 21 - August 4, 2013.
Vilho Snake Mtuleni (technician, Namibia), Meshack Kwamovo (Botswana),
Robert Mukuya (Namibia), Miguel Hilario (Angola), Ute Schmiedel (Germany)
The first training workshop for the para-ecologists
of the Future Okavango project is taking place in Mayana,
Rundu / Namibia from 7th to 17th of August 2012.
Vilho Snake Mtuleni (technician, Namibia), Miguel Hilario (Angola), Meshack Kwamovo (Botswana), Robert Mukuya (Namibia).
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