CSE

Centre of Social Excellence

 

The Centre of Social Excellence (CSE) has been designed to address issues related to deforestation and the implications for local and indigenous communities living in the forests of the Congo Basin.  The €2 million project has been granted key support from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Fondation Chirac and Virgin Media. A primary goal of the CSE is to promote excellence and improve the understanding and linkages between forest companies and indigenous communities, thereby encouraging dialogue and sustainable forestry management practices.

The CSE offers a unique 9 month programme taught in the classroom and during practical field-based training, covering a broad range of social, ethnographic and forestry management topics including participative mapping techniques.

Through the programme, TFT supports the development and expansion of social expertise among recent graduates of central African universities and professionals working in central Africa who wish to practice sustainable forestry.

The CSE promotes a unique and innovative approach to sustainable forestry management and conservation by teaching practices and techniques that incorporate the views and rights of indigenous people living in and around forest concessions. This not only allows indigenous communities a voice in the use of local resources but also assists forest companies to work towards attaining Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, the industry standard for responsible and sustainable forest practices.

Updates:

Appel à candidature pour la troisième session.
Téléchargez les documents d'information ci-contre, ainsi que le dossier de candidature.

Le délai pour le dépôt de candidature est le dimanche 11 avril 2010 inclus. 

- The pioneer promotion students graduated in February 2010, and the second promotion started, see more here.
- Read an update from September 2009, half way through the students' training here.
- The students started their practical training at partner forest companies in August 2009, see more here.
- The CSE was formally inaugurated in June 2009, see more here.
- The first students started classes in May 2009.  See the students arriving and get their first reactions here.
-  Read about preparations and about the selection process here.

 

Project links

Appel à candidature pour la 3e session! 

More information about the CSE; including a summary of course offerings is available here.

Centre of Social Excellence Summary Document in English

Centre d'Exellence Sociale Document de Présentation en français  

Présentation de la formation aux étudiants (février 2010)

Présentation des Modules de Cours en français

 Dossier de Candidature (février 2010)

The CSE is currently supported through grants provided by our partners at: