This is an archive of a session that took place on Wednesday, August 22, 2018.

Capacity development can be an essential step in local and international efforts to support communities, practitioners, landholders, and decision makers to implement strategies to restore tropical forest landscapes. The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) has 12 years of experience designing and delivering field and online training opportunities and providing posttraining support to alumni. This approach has proven to be an effective strategy for increasing the knowledge and applied experience of people who manage and influence sustainable land use decisions at different scales and contributing to transformative results in different contexts.

In this learning session, Dr. Eva Garen, ELTI Director, and Gillian Bloomfield, ELTI Online Training Coordinator, will share strategies and experiences of ELTI, a capacity development program of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (Yale F&ES).