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16 May, 2012MSD Platform Successfully Established in Two New Districts
The EU chainsaw milling project has expanded its multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) platform to two new forest districts: Tarkwa and Nkwanta.
15 May, 2012TBI Viet Nam holds a successful final phase two workshop
TBI Viet Nam held its final workshop of phase two on April 17th, 2012 in Hue, Viet Nam. The overall objective of the workshop was to evaluate the obtained results compiled by TBI Viet Nam, and to introduce the programme’s orientation thru 2016.
15 May, 2012Workshop to assess the policy and practice of Forest Land Allocation held in Ha Noi
On April 10th, 2012, TBI Viet Nam, with support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), conducted a workshop in Ha Noi entitled, “Forestry Land Allocation: Policy and Practice.” The event was held in cooperation with the Department of Science, Technology and Environment (under MARD) and the Institute of Forest Planning and Inventory (FIPI).
Forest Governance and Conflict Management: Understanding forest-related livelihood conflicts from different stakeholders’ perspectives.
The 1994 forestry policy in Ghana gave ‘birth' to the concept of collaboration and decentralisation, with the hope that involvement of all stakeholders and the devolution of power to the lower levels could contribute to sustainable forest management and improvement in forest governance and livelihoods, especially at the community level. True to this, government, through the sector ministry and the forestry commission as well as civil society and the donor community have pursued several programs (establishment of CBOs-CFCS, CBAGs etc, boundary cleaning contract with forest fringe communities, Modified taungya systems etc) all aimed at promoting good forestry governance and livelihood innovations.
Contrary to expectations, these programs have not produced the desired impact due mainly to the prevalence of forest conflicts. These conflicts are traceable to the many different stakeholder groupings with different interests, needs, positions and uneven power status, operating in the sector. This together with other local and global demands have made forest governance more complex than before and the sector even more prone to conflicts. A critical review of the early interventions suggests that conflict management strategies and systems have not received sufficient consideration.
This study therefore will examine and provide insight into the dynamics of forest and tree-related livelihood conflicts and management pathways in the context of forest governance in Ghana. To what extent can knowledge about the dynamics of those conflicts and management pathways contribute to reducing forest conflicts and promoting pro-poor forest governance?
Objective
To generate insights into how forest-related livelihood conflicts and conflict management pathways are perceived by different stakeholders within forest governance system in Ghana.
Duration
2008 - 2012
Objective
Duration
2008 - 2012
