Organization
The Organization Committee will guide the preparation, implementation and monitoring of activities of
the Congress.
The Committee is composed of members from institutions such as CIFOR, IUFRO, Rights and
Resources Institute, governmental organizations and from international cooperation agencies with experience
and knowledge of forestry development and with particular interest in themes related to forestry extension
and education, as well as representatives of the national authorities responsible for the implementation
of the revised framework for forestry promotion in Bolivia and Brazil as well as other regional experiences.
The committee will have an advisory or consultative role, providing orientation on issues such as,
key participants, the development of the programme, organization of the technical content and
preparation of the event. The Committee is operational in nature and will meet and communicate regularly.
The results of the Congress will be presented in a publication which will also be placed on the Congress website and, additionally, local events for the dissemination of the results of the Congress will be organized.
Organization Committee
| Name | Institution |
| Aliomar Arapiraca da Silva | Camara Socio-Económica (SEGOV), Government of Pará |
| Benno Pokorny | Coordinador Proyecto ForLive, Universidad de Freiburg |
| César Sabogal | Iniciativa Amazónica |
| Deborah Barry | CIFOR / Rights and Resources Initiative |
| Diego Pacheco | Ministerio de Producción y Microempresa, Bolivia |
| Max Steinbrenner | UNAMAZ |
| James Johnson | Coordinador Regional, ForLive Project |
| Pablo Pacheco | CIFOR (Centro Internacional de Investigación Forestal) |
| Inka Montero | Committe Secretary |
| Fernando Dick | Grupo Nacional de Trabajo Participativo (GNTP) |
| Lisa Hoch | Congress Mediator |
| Gabriel Medina | Congress Mediator |
The Congress Secretary will plan, prepare and coordinate the implementation of the Congress and the
monitoring of activities with an operational base in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
The Secretary is responsible for the development of a financial plan and the design of the Congress
programme and will work in close coordination with the National Directorate of Forest Resources of
the Bolivian Government, the principal host organization of the event, providing logistical support
for the organization and implementation of the Congress. During the two months immediately before
the event, additional staff will be contracted to attend to the specific logistical aspects of the
organization of the event.
Guided by the Organization Committee, the Committee Secretary will also be responsible for the preparatory study and the discussion document on the state of the art of forest extension and education in the region. To do this work the Secretary will carry out a revision of relevant experiences and will establish key contacts to prepare summaries of the descriptions of relevant specific experiences from the region to be presented as inputs for the discussions during the Congress.
Cooperating Organizations
- Ministry of Rural Development, Agriculture and the Environment, (MDRAyMA) Bolivia (Event hosts)
- National Directorate of Forest Resources, Bolivia
- Forest Superintendency, Bolivia
- Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agrícola y Forestal, Bolivia
- Brazilian Instute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, (IBAMA), Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) (Co-organizer of the Event), Ministry of the Environment (MMA), Brazil
- EMBRAPA Eastern Amazon, Brazil (coordinator of the ITTO Project "Sustainable management of production forests on a commercial scale in the Brazilian Amazon" - Bom Manejo: http://www.cpatu.embrapa.br/BomManejo) (Commercial sector)
- Autonomous University of the Beni, Forestry Research Institute of the Amazon, - UAB (ForLive project coordinators in Bolivia)
- Association of Amazonian Universities, UNAMAZ (Academic sector)
- Organization for the Treaty of Amazonian Cooperation - OTCA (Regional development policy coordination)
- Amazon Initiative - IA (Regional Network for Natural Resource Research and Technology Transfer)
- International Union of Forestry Research Organizations - IUFRO, (Transfer of Technology Group, Division of Technology Transfer, Social Sciences, Economics, Information and Policy)
- Rights and Resources Institute
- InWent - Capacity Building International, Germany
- German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)