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16 May, 2012

MSD 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, 2012

TBI 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, 2012

Workshop 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).

Governance for sustainable forest-related livelihoods in Ghana’s High Forest Zone

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One of the main goals of establishing and managing the forests in Ghana by governments and individuals is to have a sustainable resource that can provide livelihoods. However, the various forest dependent livelihoods (FDLs) in Ghana, which should act as sources of income and motivation for sustainable management and conservation of the forests, are not well developed.

This is evident by the fact that there is lack of common understanding of what constitutes FDLs, forests are not making impacts on local economies and there is lack of understanding on contribution of forests to livelihoods. In addition, the existing forest based livelihoods are not sustainable and are also characterised by poor returns, making them unattractive. Clearly, there is no optimum use of forest and tree resources to improve livelihoods and poverty.

This project seeks to generate knowledge to help address the issue by examining the role of forest governance in the context of governance innovations, contributing to improved forest and tree-related livelihoods and poverty reduction in forest fringe communities.

Objective

Generating insight into and formulating recommendations on governance arrangements that enhance forest-related livelihoods so that they contribute to sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation (cf. Millennium Development Goals 1 and 7).