XII.4 The Committee noted that the Bureau, at its eighteenth session on 9-10 December 1994, considered eight requests for amounts not exceeding US$ 30,000 and approved the following seven:
- 17th International Training Course for Protected Area Managers of Latin America, CATIE, Costa Rica US$30,000
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Regional Training Course for Protected Area Managers of Arab States, Egypt US$30,000
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Support to participants from Francophone Africa to attend a Training Course on Protected Areas, organized by ENGREF, France, in Côte d'Ivoire
US$19,000 -
Regional Training Course for Protected Area Managers of West Africa, organized by School of Wildlife Specialists, Garoua, Cameroon (an additional US$ 5,000 for supporting the publication of the proceedings of the training seminar should be sought from other sources)
US$20,000 -
Fellowships to African World Heritage site and protected area managers at Regional Training Institutes:
- School of Wildlife Specialists, Garoua, Cameroon US$22,000
- Mweka College of African Wildlife Management, Arusha, Tanzania US$20,000 -
Preparation of a strategy for training natural heritage site managers; a workshop is to be organized in cooperation with the United States National Park Service in September 1995. The Bureau urged the Centre to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the training supported by the World Heritage Fund in the past and to use the results of the assessment in the elaboration of the strategy US$30,000
XII.5 The Committee also noted that the Bureau did not approve the sum of US$ 20,000 requested by the organizers of a training seminar on protected area management in Europe and had urged the organizers to raise funds needed through alternative sources in Europe.