In situ and Ex situ Conservation of Commercial Tropical Trees - ITTO

106The Project review process was completed at the end of May 2000 with avery participatory workshop. Key follow-up recommendations of workshopparticipants are:1. Project continuity:• Continue to meet demands, learning from consolidated lessons toimprove new projects;• Maintain and expand the government-civil society partnership inmanagement beyond the Program;• Support changes in the formal rural school system to build localcapacity for sustainable development;• Strengthen the small project line as an incubator of medium and largeprojects;• Request budgetary funds to support Project activities;• Stimulate proposals which take an integrated view of the family ormicro-basin production unit, taking into account issues such as foodsecurity, increased respect for traditional practices, environmentalcharacteristics and legislation;• Integrate subprojects into the context of regional development policies,without losing sight of the role in promoting projects which supportconservation and sustainable natural resource use;• Strengthen technical assistance to prepare project proposals andimplement them;• Study the possibility of redirecting PDA resources to seek partnershipswith other environmental financial mechanisms to design andimplement a training program for technical assistance, implementersand technical staff;2. Strengthening ongoing experiences• Intensify and implement strategies of exchange and dissemination,including mechanisms to exchange technological and managementinformation within the Pilot Program;• Strengthen PDA staff and partnerships for continuous technicalmonitoring, evaluation and feedback of subproject activities;• Invest in articulating and monitoring partnerships seeking newfinancing, improved administrative structure, research, coordinationwith the public sector, based on a regional pole approach and themebasednetworks;• The SCA should interact with state governments to incorporate lessonsfrom PDA subprojects into public policies;• Intensify studies of lessons learned, interacting with other projects toavoid duplication;