Empowering Future Leaders in Sustainable Natural Resources Management
Empowering Future Leaders in Sustainable Natural Resources Management
Empowering Future Leaders in Sustainable Natural Resources Management
The primary objective of the summer school is to initiate the process of building a critical mass of skilled and competent young natural resource scientists in Africa through training and mentorship.
Discover SNRM Africa
Thematic focus: Natural resources management, (agriculture, forestry, water, wildlife and nature conservation), monitoring, data analysis, transformation
Method: Lectures, guest talks, practicals, groupworks
Discover FoundationsField work: Site visits, mapping, sampling, interviews
Methods: Field labs, team activities
Go Beyond the Classroom
Focus: presentations, scientific writing,
Method: Group projects, mentor feedback, ideation sessions
Discover What Awaits“The summer school training broadened my knowledge in research writing and communication, this helped in the structuring of my PhD research, private research and collaborations with other researchers, practitioners and policy for sustainable natural resources management”
“I have gained confidence in myself and I have created a Facebook account dedicated to raising awareness about environmental protection”
“From the training I got in results based management (RBM), I was selected as consultant for a firm - working remotely with them....”
“The summer schools contributed immensely to the development of my leadership, communication and analytical skills. the importance of the networking and mentorship opportunity that the summer schools availed me cannot be overemphasized. It is especially important to state that I am still in contact with the alumni of the summer schools 1 and 2 to date.”
“The paper that I was presenting during the summer school was successfully published. Thanks for the advice given during the presentation.” Link to paper
“I was a strong user of SAS before the training. The training in R software changed my interest and I have never looked back. The facilitators simplified the training and made statistical analysis using R interesting and stimulative to more learning. I have been training my colleagues and students”