Do you want to connect with world-renowned scholars and professionals working on forest restoration in the tropics? Enroll in our Online Training Program to:
- Learn about cutting-edge research and innovative case studies on tropical forest restoration
- Network with professionals from a range of countries who are working on applied projects
- Access the high-quality materials for which ELTI is known
Learn how to design, implement and evaluate restoration projects and activities.
Tropical landscapes across the world are transforming. There is still time to restore and conserve them: for today and the future. Long-term success depends on sustainable development, and on improving local people's livelihoods.
This process begins with the design and implementation of comprehensive yet targeted restoration policies and initiatives. This is what you will learn in ELTI’s online courses.
Each course includes lectures, videos and slide presentations developed at Yale University, in collaboration with ELTI’s partners in the field. Supplemental readings, live discussion sections, and practical homework exercises will give you the skills you need to design and implement your own projects.
Since 2012, ELTI has offered online courses to hundreds of participants throughout the tropics in English, French, Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish.
NEW: Online Certificate Program
Tropical Forest Landscapes: Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use
ELTI is proud to announce the launch of a new online certificate program. This yearlong program builds upon the expertise of YSE faculty and ELTI’s extensive training experience and network throughout the tropics. You will gain knowledge, practice skills and apply concepts to your own work and context.
The yearlong program consists of:
Four online courses (8 weeks each)
- Fundamentals: Ecological and social concepts
- People: Community and institutional engagement
- Strategies: Implementing and monitoring techniques
- Funding: Financial concepts and tools
One project course (12 months)
- Capstone Project: Designing a conservation or restoration project
One field course (1 week)
- Field: Conservation, restoration and sustainable use in practice
See more details on the online certificate program website (https://tropicalrestorationcertificate.yale.edu/) and sign up for our mailing list to receive important program updates.
Online Course Offerings
Introduction to tropical forest restoration in human-dominated landscapes (6 weeks)
- Discover the basic principles of forest ecology, natural and human disturbances that impact tropical forests, the socio-political and cultural contexts that influence restoration initiatives, and the potential to regenerate ecosystem services on a site.
- Learn how to determine which tropical forest restoration strategies are most appropriate for a particular site.
Training-for-trainers of tropical forest restoration (4 weeks. Spanish only)
- Connect with like-minded individuals from diverse sectors to share methods and experiences for teaching and providing technical assistance on a range of tropical forest restoration initiatives.
Working with communities for forest management and restoration (6 weeks. English only)
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Gain the ability to involve, engage and sustain communities in successful forest restoration and management projects in the tropics.
Agroecology and restoration: building resilient landscapes
- Engage with the theory and practice of managing productive agroecosystems incorporating agroecology, agroforestry, restoration, and sustainable forest management strategies.
For more information, and to be notified when these courses are offered, please fill out the Online Training Program Interest Form.
Courses in Development
Financing forest landscape restoration
- Acquire a range of strategies for financing restoration projects, including business planning and accounting techniques.
Monitoring for adaptive management
- Learn how to monitor whether a tropical forest restoration project is achieving its objectives, determine which measurements and methods will generate useful results, and use the information to guide future efforts.
For more information, and to be notified when future courses become available, please fill out the Online Training Program Interest Form.
Blended Courses
In the future, the Online Training Program may offer opportunities to blend with the Field-Based Training Program. You would take an online ELTI course, then attend an ELTI field course in one of our focal sites, or the other way around.
If you’re interested in this blended approach, fill out the Online Training Program Interest Form.
Is the Online Training Program for you?
ELTI’s online courses are available to environmental decision makers from diverse institutions in the tropics (e.g., government, NGO, private sector) who are involved with developing and managing projects related to our approach. You must have reliable Internet access.
For more information about our courses, to be notified when courses become available, or for additional information and opportunities please fill out the Online Training Program Interest Form or contact us via email.
