On Saturday, February 25, 2023, the Director of ERAIFT, Baudouin Michel and Mr. Joel Gamys, Executive Director of the Forestry Training Institute (FTI) of Liberia, had a working session in Monrovia. Mr Joel Gamys is a former excellent student of ERAIFT and an active member of RADDI. Both Directors examined the possibilities of cooperation between ERAIFT and FTI and scheduled the next visit of the ERAIFT Director to FTI. ERAIFT thanks the FTI Executive Director for his warm welcome to Liberia.
ERAIFT's Director, a Category 2 Centre under the auspices of UNESCO, Rector of IFA-Yangambi and Special Envoy of African Parks Network was hosted at UNESCO on Thursday 16 February 2023. Very successful exchanges were held with the World Heritage and the Man and Biosphere Programme. This meeting strengthened the relationship between ERAIFT and UNESCO as well as the relationship between UNESCO and IFA-Yangambi, a key actor in the Yangambi landscape. ERAIFT and IFA Yangambi thank UNESCO for the invitation and the hospitality.
On Tuesday 14 February, upon the invitation of Professor Jean-Louis Doucet, the Director of ERAIFT, Rector of IFA-YANGAMBI and Special Envoy of African Parks Network presented to the students registered in Master 1 "Forestry" at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech a presentation retracing the 23 years of African Parks Network (APN)'s experience in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), which manages 22 Protected Areas in 12 sub-Saharan African countries.
APN and ERAIFT would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Doucet sincerely for his invitation.
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