The Forestry Workforce Network - FORWORKNET - Homepage and Registration Form

Registration Form

By filling in this form and returning it to the address indicated below, you become a member of the network. Membership is free of charge. The additional information requested in the registration form will serve as the basis for the membership directory and a database to respond to specific inquiries.

1. Member's particulars

Family name: Given name:

Organization/institution:

Mailing address:

City: Country:

Telephone: Facsimile:

E-mail (specify type of network):

2. What is your job title and what are your main functions?

3. In what kind of organization do you work? (Please check or specify below as appropriate.)

Government forest service
Government labour administration
Employers' organization
Workers' organization
Forest entreprise
Forest contractor
Consulting
Forest owner
Vocational school
University
Research institution
International organization
Technical cooperation agency
Other (please specify)

4. What are your/your organization's main work areas in general that relate to the forestry workforce? What are your/your organization's current projects, activities or particular fields of interest concerning the forestry workforce? Please use the list of keywords below and identify the six most relevant from each column (general interest and current activity) by numbering them 1 to 6 in decreasing order of relevance to you.

	General interest	Current activity
Human resources development
Supply and demand for forest work Training and extension Recruitment Retention Changing nature of jobs Contractors in forestry Women in forest work Migrant labour Other
Productivity
Work organization Mechanization Worker-technology interfaces Decision-making in forest work Benefit/cost of improvements Other
Social and labour issues
Employment in forestry Forest-dependent communities Working conditions Pay and benefits Labour-management relations Occupational safety and health Ergonomics and human engineering Other

5. Contributions to the newsletter:
One of the network activities is the distribution of a newsletter. The function of the newsletter is primarily to help disseminate news of members, not of the secretariat. Along with the registration form, short contributions on new developments concerning the forestry workforce, calls for information, offers of cooperation, research results, upcoming events, new publications, or any other news you consider may be of interest to members would be welcome.

Please note that the newsletter does not carry substantive articles, reviews, etc. The intention is rather to bring news to the attention of network members and to provide a reference for fuller information. Your contribution should be concise and always include a contact name and address for further information.

6. The core forestry workforce library:
The network will compile a bibliography with 'compulsory reading' about the forestry workforce. To this effect we request members to list below the five references you consider most relevant and useful. Please provide full references including author, year of publication, exact title, publisher and place of publication or journal number, volume and pages as appropriate.

1. Author, year:

Title:

Publisher, ISBN:

2. Author, year:

Title:

Publisher, ISBN:

3. Author, year:

Title:

Publisher, ISBN:

4. Author, year:

Title:

Publisher, ISBN:

5. Author, year:

Title:

Publisher, ISBN:

7. In which language would you prefer to receive network publications? Would you also be able to use material in one of the other languages? Please check below as appropriate.

	First choice	Second choice
English
French
Spanish
Russian

8. Do you have interest in and equipment (computer, phone line and modem) for an electronic network?
What equipment do you have/have access to to support electronic networking? Please check and specify.

If you are not presently equipped for electronic networking, are you planning to acquire the necessary equipment or would you consider doing so?

Secretariat address: For further information, please contact the address below. To become a network member, please fill in as clearly as possible (type or use block letters) and return to:

Edmundo Werna
Forestry and Wood Industries Specialist
International Labour Office
CH-1211 Geneva 22
Switzerland
fax + 41 22 799 7967
e-mail: werna@ilo.org

Family name:	Given name:
Organization/institution:
Mailing address:
City:	Country:
Telephone:	Facsimile:
E-mail (specify type of network):