To report on the progress of eLearning development at the Environment and Forestry HR Training Center, which is being supported by GIZ, FORCLIME was granted an audience with the Head of the Human Resources Extension and Development Agency (BP2SDM) at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Drs. Ade Palguna Ruteka, at the Manggala Wanabakti Building, Jakarta on 5 July 2024. In attendance at the meeting were the Head of the Environmental Training Center, the Head of the Extension Center, the Head of the Environmental and Forestry Generation Training Center, the Secretary of BP2SDM, officials from the HR Planning and Development Center and the FORCLIME Team led by Mr. Florian Moder, the new FORCLIME Program Director, who has replaced Mr. Georg Buchholz.

During the meeting, FORCLIME reported that its collaboration with the Environment and Forestry HR Training Center (LHK HR Diklat Center) regarding the development of eLearning has been ongoing since 2013. In this regard, various capacity development efforts relating to the policy, organizational and individual levels at the Ministry HR Training Center and the Environment and Forestry (EF) Training Center (structural officials, graduate students and administrative staff) have been implemented during the course of the past decade. Indeed, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EF HR Training Center and the EF Training Center were still able to provide training services to apparatus and non-apparatus staff through the implementation of eLearning.

FORCLIME further reported that in 2023, the EF HR Training Center requested support for the development of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). This was subsequently followed up by FORCLIME, which put together a study that addressed the readiness of the EF HR Training Center to organize a MOOC in March 2024. The results of this study were able to provide a number of inputs that specifically addressed certain policy, managerial and technical aspects that required intervention from the management of the LHK HR Training Center and BP2SDM. The latest developments regarding MOOC development were the holding of a number of workshops to prepare a MOOC Development Roadmap and Training of Trainers sessions that addressed the implementation of MOOCs, both of which were held in July 2024.

At the hearing, several BP2SDM working units expressed the expectation and hope that FORCLIME would ultimately support several activities, including:

1. Support for eLearning development under the Adiwiyata Green School programme, as requested by the Environmental and Forestry Generation Training Center.
2. Support for the development of eLearning to increase the capacities of Environmental and Forestry Extension Officers from the Extension Center.
3. The HR Planning and Development Center (Pusrenbang) has carried out a training needs assessment (TNA), the report on which can be used to develop MOOC modules.
4. Support for reviews of regulations and policies that specifically relate to eLearning and their adaptation to current regulations, as provided by the Legal Section of the BP2SDM Secretariat.

For more information, please contact:
Edy Marbyanto, Strategic Area Manager for Human Capacity Development