Stakeholder Engagement Training (Scotland)
12 December 2024
As woodland expansion and creation is projected to increase, potential areas of tension with other land users and communities may arise. Those in the forestry sector need to be prepared to tackle these issues and engage stakeholders at all stages.
After successful delivery to 15 cohorts across Scotland earlier this year, Confor and Aigas Associates are again offering a stakeholder engagement training course appropriate and relevant to industry practitioners.
Each course comprises self-learning, an online meeting and a one day in-person workshop, described in more detail below. It aims to set the policy context for why we engage and provide tools and techniques to help delegates plan and carry out effective engagement with a wide range of stakeholders.
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:
- Explain the context for stakeholder engagement in forestry in Scotland;
- Access and utilise industry information to explain why the sector plants and harvests trees;
- Utilise the tools and techniques learnt on the course to:
- identify and analyse stakeholders for a project;
- plan and deliver tailored and appropriate stakeholder engagement;
- improve the quality of stakeholder feedback.