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Capacity building of the reserve’s staff
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Capacity building programs for the reserve game scouts, focused mainly on fitness, drilling and weapon training, were the responsibility of the Reserve warden’s. In 2000 a training course was run by the Niassa Province Police Department to 25 game scouts.
Since 2001, SRN establish an agreement with the Gorongosa National Park Training Center, which is sponsored by WWF - SARPO
Under this agreement, the GTC runs the training courses for SRN scouts in the Niassa Reserve. This arrangement has several advantages, which included the reduced travel costs (instead of 30 trainees traveling to the training center only 4
game scout instructors have to travel to the Reserve). It also allowed responding to special training needs of the Reserve as well as putting into action under local conditions knowledge and skills learned. As an example, the average educational level of trainees is 4th grade with some holding 6th and 7th grade. This low education level of trainees somewhat delays the assimilation of new training materials and requires that training design to focus on practical skills rather than theoretical knowledge.
These training courses provided game scouts with essential knowledge and skills in Law enforcement and Nature Conservation covering subjects like fitness and drilling exercises, fire control management, soil erosion and control measures, anti-poaching patrol principles and tactics, patrol observations and reporting, first aid principles, law and legislation, communication skills and safe use and handling of firearms. The courses end up with a practice anti-poaching patrol carried out during five days inside the Reserve.
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