The Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Brawijaya, Malang, East Java, Indonesia hosted the in-country ToT for Rapid Hydrological Appraisal (RHA) and Rapid Carbon Assessment (RaCSA) in Indonesia. The training was held from 24-30 March 2008 at the Brawijaya University campus, Indonesia.

The objective was to enable local resource managers to use RHA and RaCSA as a tools to analyse the impacts of changes in market access or agroforestry technology that could offer future solutions in multi-use landscapes. It was also an opportunity to establish and coordinate the national team for project planning to test RHA and RaCSA for trade-off analyses in a wide range of agroforestry contexts in Indonesia.

The training program was held in three steps: (a) discussion and sharing experiences in integrated natural resource management; (b) field visit to Pujon and Ngantang, which are part of the Kalikonto sub-catchments; and, (c) analysis and data interpretation.

Twenty-nine participants took part in the one-week training; they came from 23 institutions, including government agencies, NGOs, universities, training centres and research institutes. Participants were expected to learn how to apply the integrated toolbox RHA and RaCSA to various conditions of land use systems at landscape level, and analyse the impacts of changes in market access or agroforestry technology.