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In Ghana:
Forestry Commission (FC)
 FC is the public implementing agency in charge of forest management and planning in Ghana. The FC has a long standing working relationship with chainsaw loggers (both when it was legal and illegal) and their increasing involvement in collaborative forest management approaches makes them a good partner for this project.
 Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)
FORIG is one of the 13 institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). It is located at Fumesua near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. FORIG brings on board numerous scientists in the fields of forest economics, policy analysis, social forestry, ecology, wood-technology and forest management whose expertise are highly relevant to the project activities. The mission of FORIG is to conduct high quality, user-focused research that generates scientific knowledge and appropriate technologies which enhance the sustainable development, conservation and efficient utilization of Ghana's forest resources; and also to disseminate the information for the improvement of the social, economic and environmental well-being of the Ghanaian people.
In Guyana:
 Forestry Training Centre Incorporated (FTCI)
FTCIis a subsidiary of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) that evolved from several projects on reduced impact logging (RIL) of the former TBI-Guyana Programme (1989-2001). FTCI's primary activity is the provision of vocational training in RIL to forestry workers at all levels. FTCI also has been instrumental in demonstrating the forest management prescriptions set out in GFC's Code of Practice for Timber Harvesting and Forest Management Plan Guidelines. Recently FTCI started to develop RIL practices that will address the needs of small operators, including operatives engaged in chainsaw lumbering or using forest based portable sawmills.
 Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development (Iwokrama)
Iwokrama is an autonomous not-for-profit research and development institution established by Guyana and the Commonwealth. It manages the 370,000 ha Iwokrama Forest in central Guyana to demonstrate how tropical forest biodiversity may be conserved and sustainably utilised for ecological, social and economic benefits. Iwokrama has extensive experience with the development of systems and building of capacity for collaborating with local communities.
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