As part of TBI Ghana’s effort to build adequate national human capacity for the generation and use of information on forestry in Ghana, the programme reserves a small budget to support the fieldwork of undergraduate students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The goal is to improve the quality of undergraduate research in Natural Resources Management; nonetheless, where necessary the support is used to fill gaps in the programme’s research agenda. In 2009, twenty-four (24) students benefited from the facility. These were essentially students in their final year of undergraduate and graduate studies.

In November 2009, TBI Ghana held communication training for the students to whet their communication skills in scientific writing and reporting. In a participatory approach, the training focused on such topics as presentation skills, report writing, proposal writing and referencing styles (citation). Mr. K.S. Nketiah, Programme Director and Mr. Bossman Owusu, Communication Officer facilitated the training.