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Three counterpart personnel, including national director, participated in training in Japan on Sustainable Natural Resources and Forest Management Through Development and Implementation of Forest Management Plan from August 24 to September 17, 2014. This training was conducted in Tokyo and Kansai (Kyoto, Shiga and Hyogo). In it, trainees took classes on various subjects given by richly-experienced lecturers from ministry, municipality, university and NPO. The classes outlined Japanese forestry institutions and development of human resources and forest administration, for example, included Satoyama preservation, forest preservation for disaster prevention, protecting from beasts and birds damage. There were also outlines of forest cooperative, wood sale and natural resource management in Asian countries. Trainees got opportunities to come into contact with some Japanese culture through the experience of making Japanese traditional paper and staying with a farm family.

After training, trainees consider introduction of the following topics for Timor-Leste:

• Establishment of Training Center for Forestry
• Providing incentive for community plantation
• Establishment of forest cooperative for forest community
• Public participation for sustainable forest management
• Implementation of environment education
• Making charcoal using bamboo.

To contribute to NDF's forest preservation activity of forest resource and sustainable forest operation, our project will first support the sharing of knowledge between Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF).

Site inspection of work of forest cooperative in Fukuchiyama city in Kyoto Prefecture

A trainee who explained forest resources to a lecturer in Timor-Leste