COURSE REPORT on “Community Forestry & Joint Forest Management” 19th to 24th September, 2016 for In-service SFS Officers & Senior RFOs Govt. of India Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change Central Academy for State Forest Service Dehradun Format for reporting evaluation of refresher course conducted by the institute/organization for the SFS officers sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, GOI, New Delhi as per the merged format of MoEF & CC and JICA Course Report MoEF’s /DFE’s letter number and date 4-651/Trg-11/DFT-2016/1104-44 dated 09.06.16 Institute’s reference number 4-21/Trg./WL/CASFOS-16-1884 dated 22.07.2016 Central Academy for SFS, Dehradun Name and complete address of the 01352-2754575/2754648 1 Institute(including phone, fax and e-mail) Fax- 0135-2756168 Email- [email protected] 2 Title of the course “Community Forestry & Joint Forest Management” Six Days. 3 Duration & period of the Course From 19th to 24th September, 2016 Name & designation of the Course 4 Abhilash Damodaran, IFS, Faculty Director 5 Number of officers participated 31(Details at Appendix- IV) (a)Did the institute get in touch in advance Yes with the participants of the course? (b) If yes, when (mention the date of 05.07.2016 communication to the officers)? 6.1 (c) Details of nomination received from 49 States prior to the Course (d) How many officers received the All intimation? (e) How many officers responded? 31 (a)Were the course expectations of the participants ascertained by the Yes 6.2 institution? By direct interaction and in form of feedback on prescribed (b) If yes, how and when (dates)? performa collected during the course. (a) Was the course conducted at the Yes institution’s campus? If no, where? (b) Whether the course was “residential” or non-residential. If residential, 7.1 whether the residential facilities were Residential. Residential facilities were provided in the provided in the institution’s own Institute’s own South Hostel. hostel or in a hotel etc.? (a) Total no. of working days in the course 6 days (b) Total no. of sessions 11 sessions planned/convened in the course (c) No. of sessions, which could not be NIL conducted as planned with reasons 7.2 (d) Internal faculty hours 3 (e) Guest faculty hours 12.5 (f) No. of days / hours spent on field Two days visit(s), if any Enclosure (2 copies each): - Final course time-table - List of faculty (both in-house and guest faculty) - Final list of participants - The background material supplied to the participants (a) Had the same or similar course been conducted earlier under the sponsorship of the MOEF & CC/Department of Yes Personnel and Training (Government of 8 India)? (b) What changes, on the basis of the feedback received in the previous course Course programme attached. were made in the current course? Feedback received from current course participants in terms of: 9 (*1.1, 2.1. shown below refer to question number in Part C or Part E of the feedback form.) Course Content & Structure including reading material was found to be relevant and highly appreciated by the 9.1 Course Content and Structure (CCS) participants with rating of 83.87% Course aim met to the full satisfaction & as per feedback there was increase in knowledge level of the participants. The participants have rated the training faculty as more than 87.60% 9.2 Training Faculty (TF) Training faculty for lectures and field visits were highly appreciated by the participants. The participants have given a feedback that the training 9.3 Usefulness of the course (UOC) course will be highly useful immediately and also in future for their job with combined rating as 86.69% Overall impression about the Course The participants are highly impressed by the course. And 9.4 (OIC) rated it around 84.68%. Participants’ views about the strengths Overall the participants have appreciated the course. The and weaknesses as well as other aspects 9.5 suggestions made by them along with Academy’s comments pertaining to the course are attached. (Please attach summary as Appendix-I.) The expectations of the participants regarding level of Logistics (including Residential infrastructural facilities available in the training Institute has accommodation, Food quality, Class been met to certain extent. 9.6 room facilities, Computer facilities and Time management is appreciated Recreation facilities and Time Computer and recreational facilities were also used and management etc.) appreciated. Weighted Average The weighted average of the course has been rated as 9.7 (Please attach summary as Appendix-II) 85.72% which is found to be very satisfactory. The participants highly appreciated Yoga during the course. Out of 31 Participants, 16 participants rated “Greatly 9.8 Participants’ views about the Yoga. Useful”, 6 participants rated “Moderately Useful”, and 9 participants have not rated. General remarks of the Course Director The participants were enthusiastic and expressed their on the nature and extent of participant’s keenness to learn. All participants were always punctual and 10 involvement in the course including appeared very interactive during the sessions and quite attendance punctuality and interest involved in field visits. evinced Feedback received is excellent in all aspects of course Suggestion highlighting the areas of design, content, quality and facility etc. 11 improvement in the Course for future by However the suggestions to include more topics and to Course Director increase the duration of field visits need to be looked at. Comments of the Institution on how the As reported by the participants they were immensely feedback is proposed to be recycled into benefitted by the course. 12 future programmes in terms of course Academy will try its level best to incorporate the suggestions content, methodology, etc. to further improve the course. Countersigned (Abhilash Damodaran) Course Director PRINCIPAL APPENDIX-I Course Director’s comments on participants’ views about the strengths and weakness pertaining to the course (Note: 1. Participants’ comments to Part C Question 5 which deemed appropriate to give Course Director’s comment are shown in the table as Participants’ views. 2. Comments of similar nature relating to the same aspects given by different participants may be clubbed together by the Course Director.) No. of participants who S. N Participants’ views Course Director’s comments have expressed the view The course is very well planned. All the resource persons well presented 1. 7 their cases. Both field visits was very good. Similar efforts would be made in future courses also. 2. Yoga classes are very good. 4 It is not feasible as per training budget Arrangements should be made for pick 3. 2 norms. However, efforts shall be made up from railway station/airport. within norms and budget. Two field visits were conducted More field visits must be there to 4. 1 providing sufficient exposure to the enhance our practical knowledge. participants. The resource persons shall be Session should be arranged in both 5. 2 requested to use Hindi and English English and Hindi language. during lectures. Field visit to Watershed Management 6. 2 Can be included in future. activity Hostel is not clean. Necessary directions have been given 7. Bathrooms cleanliness should be taken 2 in this regard to concerned authority. care of APPENDIX-II Numerical value of feedback and Weighted Average For calculation of numerical value of feedback, each factor is valued as percentage value to the top grade given to the factor. If no answer is provided, it is excluded from calculation. (cf; where number of grade is 4, percentage value be 100, 75, 50, 25) Average of numerical value of factors consisting of the element is a numerical value of the element. 1. Course Content and Structure (CCS) = 83.87 1.1 Course aims met (88.71) 1.2 Increase of knowledge (84.68) 1.3 Relevance of content (80.65) 1.4 Reading Material (81.45) 2. Training Faculty (TF) = 87.60 2.1 Assessment of the Course contents/topics = 87.16 Contents (87.96) Presentation (87.37) Quality of Discussion/Interaction (86.71) Meet for Objectives (86.58) 2.2 Assessment of the Field Visit = 88.04 Contents (88.20) Meet for Objectives (87.88) 3. Usefulness of the Course (UOC) = 86.69 3.1 How useful to you immediately (87.10) 3.2 How useful to be for the future jobs (86.29) 4. Overall Impression about the Course (OIC) = 84.68 5. Logistics (L) = 86.14 E1.1. Residential accommodation (81.29) E1.2. Food quality (85.81) E1.3. Class room facilities (91.29) E1.4. Computer facilities (84.62) E1.5. Recreation facilities (83.21) E1.6. Time management (90.65) Weighted Average for the Course For calculation of Weighted Average (WA), following formula is used. WA = (CCS (100%) + TF (100%) + UOC (75%) + OIC (100%) + L (75%)) *100/450 WA = (83.87 + 87.60 + 65.01 + 84.68 + 64.60) *100/450 = 85.72 % Inaugural session by Dr. G.S. Goraya, IFS, DDG(Research), ICFRE, Dehradun Inaugural session on Facilitation Skills for Community Mobilization by Ms. Monideepa Sharma, Empower Society, Dehradun APPENDIX-III Details of Topics & Resource Persons S. Contact Topic Name Email No No. Dr. Gurinder Singh Overview of Community Goraya, IFS, 1. 9418025036 [email protected] Forestry & JFM in India DDG(Research), ICFRE, Dehradun Smt. Sarita Kumari, IFS, 2. Gender Sensitive Forestry Lecturer, CASFOS, 9458115745 [email protected] Dehradun Community Participation in Shri A.K Bharadwaj, IFS, 3. 0135-2646203 [email protected] PA Management WII, Dehradun Sh. P.C. Tyagi, IFS, WII, 4. Legal Issues in JFM 9411752658 [email protected] Dehradun Smt. Monideepa Sharma, Facilitation skills for 5.