Training Course on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

for

Indian Forest Service Officers

(27th - 28th August 2012)

EVALUATION REPORT BY THE PARTICIPANT

[Note: Please fill in all the items in the reports Your objectivity will help us to make improvements in the future training course (s)]

Number of participants: 26

1. Name of the institution/organization: Wildlife Institute of India

2. Title of the training Course : Two Day Training Workshop on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Impact Assessment” for IFS Officers.

3. Duration & period of the training Course: Two days (27th to 28th August 2012)

4. Training Course objectives

• Improving the mechanisms for mainstreaming biodiversity in the impact assessment for sound decision making and long term gains for conservation.
   
• Improve better appreciation of the issues and conflicts related to developments in ecologically sensitive areas.
   
• Review options for professionalizing EIA for positive outcomes for biodiversity.

5. Did you receive advance intimation from the institute/ organization about the programme? If so, when did you respond to the institution?

(a) When the intimation was received? : Generally a fortnight before the course

(b) When the officer responded? : Generally a week before the course

6. What do you think about the theme/topic structure and organization of the training course to meet the objectives on a scale of 10?

Scale	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
No of responses								4	11	7	4

Overall rating 88%

7. How useful the information provided/interactions made in this training course will be to you in your job?

Scale	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
No of responses							2	3	10	4	7

Overall rating 84%

8. Do you feel you got enough opportunities to interact with the fellow participants?

Scale	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
No of responses						2		3	11	4	6

Overall rating 85%

9. How far have you been benefited from interactions with the fellow participants during the training course ?

Scale	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
No of responses					1	3		4	13	3	2

Overall rating 85%

10. How far the reading material supplied was relevant and related to the topic of the training course?

Scale	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
No of responses							1	2	9	8	3

Overall rating 85%

11. Do you feel the institute/ organization made enough efforts in providing the maximum possible information on the theme/topic?

Scale	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
No of responses								1	11	5	9

Overall rating 89%

12. Which part (s) of the brainstorming sessions did you find most useful?

	Strategic Environmental Assessment
	Panel discussions
	Sessions by Dr. Jhala, Dr. Mathur, Mr. B.C. Choudhury, Dr. C.K. Varshney & Dr. Asha Rajvanshi
	Presentation on cumulative environmental hydropower projects and biodiversity need impact assessment
	Film and panel discussion
	Sector EIA & best practices for mitigating impacts on biodiversity
	The reliability of EIA data and how to make it more authentic
	Panel discussion / impact assessment of oil & natural gas & road projects
	Framework for integrating biodiversity in impact assessment
	Ecological perspectives of mainstreaming needs in development planning
	Addressing the biodiversity data needs in impact assessment

13. Which part (s) of the brainstorming sessions did you find most useful?

Scale	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
No of responses								3	9	9	5

 

14. Your overall impression of the training course ?

 

	Future course can be planned on EIA, Environmental Auditing
	The duration of the course was very short , leaving little time for interaction with fellow participants
	The course duration should be extended up to 3-5 days
	No field visit was planned– a visit to WII would have sufficed
	A very well organised program
	Books on environmental science should be included in the course material
	More case studies including case study presentations by the participants could have been invited
	The training course may be organized in the Institute
	Participatory session may be included