Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
The Institute of International Studies is pleased to announce the Ford Foundation Environment and Culture Residential Fellowship Program. This program, with the generous support of the Ford Foundation, provides funding to bring scholars/activists to the UC Berkeley campus for periods of one to four months as Residential Fellows.
The Residential Fellowship Program enables individuals who have been deeply involved in practical and applied aspects of environmental politics/policy or resource management to engage in writing projects, to further their training and education, and to take advantage of the faculty, student, and bibliographic resources at UC Berkeley and other Bay Area campuses. Residential Fellows play an integral role in the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics.
Consultant with Centro Internazionale Crocevia in Rome, Italy
Residency at UC Berkeley from October 2000 - January 2001.
Ms. Colajacoma is an activist and international development policy consultant based in Italy who works for the Lelio Basso International Foundation for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples. At this foundation Ms. Colajacoma works as a researcher and consultant on human rights, indigenous rights and development projects. She also works with the "Reform the World Bank Campaign" in Italy and the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. consulting on local community capacity building, environmental law and international law, rain forest issues, and indigenous rights. At UC Berkeley, Ms. Colajacoma will focus her research on analysis of the ongoing "World Bank Forestry Policy Implementation Review and Strategy Development" with particular inquiry into the impact of structural adjustment loans on community-based resource management, indigenous rights, and land tenure systems.
Editor in Cheif of the Leyte Samar Daily Express, Philippines
Residency at UC Berkeley from September - December 2000.
Mr. Justimbaste is a prominent community activist and reporter in the Philippines with a great deal of local and international development experience. In 1989 he co-founded the Pagtinabangay Foundation, an Ormoc-based non-governmental organization that addresses multi-sectoral concerns of local farmers, fisher folk, women, and children. Mr. Justimbaste also works with a Cebu-based newspaper as an assistant news editor and he is a correspondent for a national daily newspaper based in Manila. At UCB Mr. Justimbaste will focus his research on: successful community based interventions on depleted and damaged marine resources, and successful models of sectoral organizing at the community level. He will also spend time in the San Francisco Bay Area making connections with other NGOs and foundations.
Attorney, Babilonia Water Foundation, Philippines and Berkeley, CA
Residency at UC Berkeley from October 2000 - January 2001.
Ms. Luna is an environmental lawyer who currently works with the Babilonia Wilner Foundation on grassroots advocacy issues such as the conservation of the local parks and bays in the Philippines. Ms. Luna has worked with the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, the Haribon Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources, and the consortium of non-profit organizations in the Philippines titled, NGO's for Integrated Protected Areas. She has traveled extensively throughout the Philippines and internationally to address the issues of protection of natural resources in the Philippines, and she has consulted directly with community based organizations and organizers on legal ecological issues. At UCB Ms. Luna will focus her research on the successes and failures of common property regimes in the Philippines and the rights of forest occupants in national parks in the Philippines.
Research Fellow in the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Residency at UC Berkeley from April - June 2001.
Mr. Ntzebeza works as a Research Fellow with the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, at the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape in Bellville, South Africa. He is currently working on a doctorate at Rhodes University, Eastern Cape, South Africa and he is working on a two-year research project on the role of traditional authorities in land tenure reform and local government in post-apartheid South Africa. At UCB, Mr. Ntzebeza will begin the second phase of this larger project by reviewing comparative literature on traditional authorities and their involvement in land administration, land use planning, and the improvement of rural people,s lives in other parts of Africa. Mr. Ntzebeza has published numerous papers on democratization and traditional authority, land reform, and political economy in South Africa. He also has vast experience with community, non-governmental, and educational institutions in South Africa, including his work as an appointee on numerous governmental agencies.
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