Board of Trustees

Message from the Chairman of the Board of Trustees
DRFN Annual Report 2006-2007

In past years, my message has focused on capacity building, and this year is no ecxeption. Although our mission hightlights research, training and consultancy activities, none of these activities is undertaken without some element of capacity building within or outside the organisation. On the formal side, one PhD was initiated and two were ongoing amongst staff members. Three BTech degrees were in progress and six interns from the Polytechnic worked with the DRFN during the past year. Six international students volunteered with the DRFN, three working on higher degrees and three in established exchange programmes. In total, more than one third of our own staff advanced their formal education and training during the year under review. At the same time, all of our staff, without exception, gained greater experience and exposure to environmental issues at the local, regional and international levels while many received focused in-house training in various fields. I wish to emphasise that this experience and exposure to a wide variety of responisibilites, activities, people and interactions remains one of the key elements of capacity building amongst all DRFN staff and associates.