Ministry of Forests. 1999. [report] Forestry Division Services Branch. 48p.

The purpose of the 1999 EFP Needs Assessment was to identify those gaps in forest management knowledge and abilities that were both:

• necessary for the achievement of Enhanced Forestry Program objectives, and
• within the scope of the Ministry of Forests (MOF) to address.

Almost 100 individuals from six groups of stakeholders provided input to the study. Respondents included staff from licensees, contractors, MELP, FRBC, and MOF headquarters, regional and district offices.

The needs assessment involved:

• developing a needs assessment framework
• surveying representatives of each group; and
• synthesising the responses to produce the EFP Needs Assessment report.

The report identified gaps in the knowledge and skills necessary to:

• plan EFP activities at the forest estate/landscape level;
• plan EFP activities at the stand level; and,
• implement EFP activities.

In addition, the report identified training preferences of the target groups, and potential impediments to their acquisition of the needed knowledge and skills.

This Website includes the Ministry's 1999 EFP Training Needs Assessment report.