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Proposed Position: |
Forestry and Social Forestry Consultant, Project
Manager |
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Name of Firm: |
Ukwazisa Consulting |
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Profession: |
Forestry Scientist |
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Date of Birth: |
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Years with Firm/Entity: |
3 |
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Nationality: |
South African |
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Membership in Professional Societies: |
South African Institute of Foresters |
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Key Qualifications: |
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Cori Ham has a wide experience in the field of forest
management and social forestry. He was winner of the Sir William Schlich
Medal recognising him as the best student of his year. In addition to
general forest management consulting he has been responsible for managing
projects in the field of social forestry and commercialisation of new
species.
He has attended a number of specialist courses since
graduating including:-
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Permaculture Design Cource with Bill Mollison (1997)
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Beginners course in Xhosa (1998)
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Workshop and training course on The Facilitation of Community- and
Formal Meetings (1998)
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Introductory course on remote sensing and photogrammetry (1999)
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International Training Programme on Forest Certification presented by
Svensk SkogsCertifiering AB (1999)
Cori is a Director of Ukwasiza Consulting and a member
of Fractal Forest Africa CC.
Cori is author or Co author of 3 scientific papers and
has made three conference presentations. |
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Education: |
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B.Sc. Forestry |
1995 |
University of Stellenbosch |
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Honors B.Sc. Forestry |
1997 |
University of Stellenbosch |
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Employment Record: |
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1999 - |
Ukwasiza Consulting |
Director |
South Africa |
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Directorate of Forestry |
Western Cape Coordinator
for the Development of South African Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable
Forestry |
South Africa |
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SIDA |
Electricity Supply Survey
for Lesotho |
Lesotho |
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University of Stellenbosch |
Management and co-ordination of community
forestry research projects for the Faculty of Forestry, University of
Stellenbosch |
South Africa |
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DWAF |
Investigation into Management Options for
Woodlots in the Former Homelands |
Souht Africa |
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DWAF |
Domestication of Indigenous Fruit Trees
Preferred by Communities |
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Fractal Forests |
Development of an Access Database for Permit
Re-inspections |
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Fractal Forests |
Data Analysis of Permanent Sample Plots in
Uruguay |
Uruguay |
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Fractal Forests |
Baboon damage assessments of DWAF Mpumalanga
plantations |
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DACTS |
Commercialisation and Domestication of Non
Timber Forest Products |
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Faculty of Forestry |
Research on community forestry related
topics. |
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Faculty of Forestry |
Management of Faculty of Forestry Nursery |
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Faculty of Forestry |
Consulting on sustainable forest management
and forest certification |
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1997 - 1998 |
University of Stellenbosch |
Research assistant and project co-ordinator |
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University of Stellenbosch |
Management and co-ordination of community
forestry projects |
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University of Stellenbosch |
Research on community forestry projects |
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Languages: |
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English, Afrikaans, Basic
Xhosa |
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