IAF Co-Organizes the 4th National Agroforestry Congress

The 4th Philippine Agroforestry Congress, with the theme "agroforestry promotion for climate change mitigation and adaptation: building lessons from the field", will be convened to serve as a forum to facilitate sharing on recent developments in climate change and agroforestry development, emphasizing the multifunctionality of agroforestry for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Specifically, this Agroforestry Congress intends to: a) highlight the experiences of various stakeholders in agroforestry technology development, promotion and adaptation; b) intensify agroforestry promotion to the public through the Agroforestry Roadshow; and, c) organize farmers' forum that will highlight the farmers' experiences in agroforestry technology adoption, and display agroforestry products and projects.

IAF Joins PAFERN in the Monitoring and Evaluation of DBP-Forest Projects

The UPLB Institute of Agroforestry (UPLB-IAF) takes the lead in the implementation of PAFERN's DBP-funded project entitled "Participatory Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation (PAME) of DBP-Forest Projects".  The PAME Project generally aims to find out the current state of project implementation of the 22 DBP-Forest Project Partners all over the country.  From August 2008 to date, the project team has evaluated a total of 17 DBP-Forest Projects. 

Besides monitoring the progress of project implementation, the PAME project was also conceived to build the technical capabilities of the local DBP Partners.  Thus, the DBP Forest Partners, including the local PAFERN member-institutions are actively involved in the project.  A Final Exit Conference will be conducted sometime in August 2009 to convene all the 22 DBP-Forest Partners.  This will serve as a venue to present the general findings and recommendations of the PAME Team in all the 22 forest project sites, and distill lessons from the project implementation.