Training:
specialist training
The Specialist Training Programme is developing the capacity of African institutions in order to make them more effective in their conservation work. The programme is designed to provide tailor-made training in areas that have been identified as top priority by African conservation institutions. To date workshops have been run on scientific writing, fundraising and communicating results. Further workshops on biodiversity monitoring, ecological sampling techniques and training of trainers are being planned.
The workshops reach a different audience and teach more specialist skills than those of the TBA courses. Training trainers ensures a greater degree of sustainability as new skills will be transferred from one generation to the next.
To date, the TBA has run workshops on fund-raising and scientific writing skills through this programme. Attended by conservation scientists and ecologists, these workshops developed skills in: 
preparing funding proposals
writing quality papers for publication
communicating information to a diverse audience
The overall aims are to:
- build practical skills in writing successful funding proposals and build relationships with donors.
- develop skills required for publishing scientific papers and hence reach a wider audience
- create a useful network among in-country conservation scientists and the TBA
- have a lasting impact as participants transfer new skills to their home institutions after the workshop
Our portfolio of workshops includes:
STP Kenya 2004
STP Tanzania 2005
Darwin Iniative workshop Tanzania 2006
STP Uganda 2006
Darwin Initiative workshop Tanzania 2007
STP Uganda 2007
Hotspots Tanzania 2008
Typical timetable of an STP workshop
The timetable below outlines a typical TBA workshop in writing papers, fund-raising and communicating results. Please use this as a guide to the layout of a workshop but this can be subject to change.
Typical timetable of an STP workshop (word document)