Plant Trees The Tree Growers Tool Kit aims to help people plant trees and improve their lifestyle. We're creating a one-stop source of information for tree growers and field workers.

Welcome to the Tree Growers Tool Kit

The Tree Growers Tool Kit helps people to plant trees and improve their lifestyle. We're creating a one-stop source of information for tree growers and field workers. We're also linking-up with similar research and development initiatives at local, national and international levels. The Tree Growers Tool Kit contains a growing set of multi-media resources that help people to:

These resources are freely available for viewing and downloading from this website. They're also available from the Tree Growers Dropbox and Google Drive folders which currently contain 283 files in 104 folders (2,060mb). You're welcome to:

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Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank the following partner organisations for their generous contributions to the Tree Growers Took Kit:

The International Tropical Timber Organisation and PNG Forest Authority for supporting the content development through Project PD 552/09 Rev 1 (F): Encouraging customary landowners in the lowlands of PNG's Central Province to reforest their grasslands with high value trees.

The PNG Forest Authority for providing resources through Operation Painim Graun na Plani Diwai.

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, PNG Forest Authority, Organisaton for Industrial, Spiritual & Cultural Advancement, University of Natural Resources and the Environment and University of the Sunshine Coastfor supporting the resource development work through Project FST-2007-078: Developing a PNG timber industry based on planted forests: design and implementation of a national germplasm delivery system and Project FST-2014-069: Improvement and management of teak and sandalwood in PNG and Australia.

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Australian National University and the PNG University of Technology for supporting the concept and resource development work through Project FST-2004-05: Value-adding to PNG agroforestry systems.

Partnership publications

The following publications by Tony Bartlett at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) document the history of the ACIAR forestry program and examine the relative success of 30 completed projects in Vietnam, Indonesia and PNG:

Evolution of the ACIAR forestry program: This article explains what ACIAR is, how it does its business, how the forestry program has evolved over thirty years and what some of the impacts have been.
Evaluation of relative success of research projects: This article includes a review of various evaluation methods used in international development, develops a new methodology for evaluating relative success of a group of projects and then tests it on a group of 10 ACIAR forestry projects from Vietnam.
Factors that contribute to the success of forestry research projects in Vietnam: This paper reports the results from the first case study of 10 completed ACIAR forestry projects from Vietnam. It looks at the relative success of the projects, identifies 22 factors that enhance or diminish success and then demonstrates the relationships between these factors and relative success in 3 projects.
Factors affecting the relative success of collaborative forestry research projects in Indonesia: The article presents the findings from the evaluation of the 10 ACIAR projects, plus the analysis of the interview data used to describe the factors that affect the success of the projects (30 factors identified). There is also some analysis of the apparent causal relationships between the identified success factors and the evaluated level of relative success of the projects.
Case study on factors affecting success of forestry projects in PNG: This article includes summarised information on the factors that affect project success, drawn from interviews with 33 ACIAR forestry project collaborators (21 in PNG and 12 in Australia).