Village Earth/Trisakti University Doctorate Program in Sustainable Village-Based Developmenta - Jakarta Indonesia

In Fall of 1995, the Director of Private Universities visited Colorado State University and met extensively with Dr. Albertson and Dr. Shinn. He was desirous of obtaining assistance with the involvement of private universities in his oversight in effective rural development practice and implementation. Fifteen professors and university administrators attended the training course offered by the International Institute for Sustainable Development called "Participatory Practices for Sustainable Development." Over the years short courses held in Indonesia for more than 100 private and some public universities. A consensus developed to build a sustainable village based development program in which universities would have both a rural and an urban project of approximately forty to fifty thousand persons to access needed resources. In the year 2000, it is anticipated that a number of courses will be held to train indigenous university personnel through the IISD in sustainable village-based development.

In a visit held in February & March, 1999, Trisakti University, the largest of the private universities in Indonesia, asked Village Earth to assist it in developing a Ph.D. Program in Sustainable Village (both urban and rural) Based Development. During February of 2000 Dr. Albertson, Dr. Shinn and Mrs. Shinn will participate in conducting two courses in Jakarta at Trisakti University as a part of the first year of the Ph.D. program.

In all projects, Village Earth:CSVBD works to establish a working relation between the project site and one or more nearby universities. This is especially needed to establish and maintain a credible Monitoring and Evaluation program.