Wid Activities in the Forestry Planning and Development Project
WID ACTIVITIES IN THE FORESTRY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Miss Mamoona Wali Muhammad-Sub Divisional Forest Officer Winrock International-58 Margalla Road, F 7/2-1slalmabad BACKGROUND AND PROJECT PROFILE The Forestry Planning and Development Project, a Government of Pakistan/USAID joint venture started in 1984 and is scheduled to end in August 1993. The project has five operational thrusts: 1. Strengthening of Forest Policy in Pakistan. 2. Reversal of deforestation through tree crop management on private lands. 3. Improvement of forestry education and training. 4. Expansion of Forestry research. 5. Developm .nt of Farm Forestry Outreach. The Inspector General of Forests, Ministry of Food, Agricul ture and Cooperatives, Government of Pakistan, is the Overall Project Director. The Project is active in all the four provinces of Pakistan. Each province has a provincial Project Director, who is a Chief Conservator of Forests, except for Sindh, where due to the current status of work, a Divisional Forest Officer is incharge of the project. The USAID Project officer, is a senior retired Forest officer, and ex Secretary of the Government of Azad Kashmir. Technical aspects are looked after by a Technical Assistance Team, comprising three US and two Pakistani experts in different fields of forestry, training, planning, outreach and extension. The project has, in addition to different forestry related activities, also undertaken the training of students in Forestry at the Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawer. A batch of 25 students have undergone Masters or Bachelur level training at the PFI, this included the first ever women forestry graduates of Pakistan. Ten are currently under training.
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