Community-Based Forestry and Protected Area Management (CBFM)

Project Summary

The project was implemented in three phases over three years and was designed:

• To address policy, planning, livelihood and knowledge barriers by effectively promoting community-based conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, targeting 20 community forests through incentive-based conservation agreements.
• To contribute to the conservation of biodiversity of global significance, including rare, endangered, threatened and endemic plant and animal species.

Project Outcome

• 6,720 direct and indirect beneficiaries reached with economically viable and sustainable livelihood programmes
• 12 Village Saving and Loan Associations formed and strengthened
• Institutional capacity of two community forest governance structures strengthened
• Regulatory framework for community forest management improved

Project Geography

Southeast Liberia, with project sites in Grand Gedeh, River Gee, Sinoe and River Cess Counties.