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RRI Africa: Work Program 2011-2012 RRI Africa 2011 – 2012 Work-Plan Summary I. Regional Overview Dates of planning meetings in 2010: August 28: Accra, Ghana September 14-15: Monrovia, Liberia September 20-21: Yaoundé, Cameroon October 6-7: Bamako, Mali October 18-22: Busua Beach, Ghana (regional planning meeting) *Burkina Faso did not have a country planning meeting; IUCN and the tenure champions discussed 2011 activities and budget Strategic outcomes 2012 Outcomes 2011 Partners/ Collaborators Region • AU and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have a clear platform and agenda on community ownership rights • Community organizations more effectively advocate for their rights • Parliamentarians, Mayors, and local government administration are engaged and advocate for community rights • Community rights are recognized, protected, and advanced in the REDD process • Gender rights are clearly articulated and incorporated in tenure reform programs • RRI agenda is introduced to key regional policy bodies & agencies: COMIFAC, ACHPR, MRU, AfDB, AU, UNECA • Community/CS networks interested in tenure and rights are mapped • Regional Parliamentarian networks have a better understanding of the rights and tenure agenda • Civil society and communities in Africa are engaged with REDD++ processes and have a common understanding to position regarding REDD, climate change and rights • Gender analysis on tenure legislation and regulations is done in all RRI countries in Africa and the African Resource Rights Network (ACRN) is engaged on gender FPP ICRAF Intercooperation ACRN CIFOR IUCN REFACOF Tier 1 Cameroon • ATEMs are enabled in new forest laws and related policies • New legal and forest policy reforms recognize the historic rights of local communities and indigenous peoples. • Elected officials (parliamentarians and local councilors) commit to defend local communities’ rights, particularly rights of women and indigenous peoples • Women’s rights are formally recognized in reforms of forest law and policy reforms • Local communities, especially women & indigenous peoples, are represented &participate in decision-making processes regarding land & forests • Issues of rights and tenure are taken into account in REDD and climate change policies and mechanisms • Current ly separate land and forest reforms are coordinated for a better recognition of community rights • A business climate favoring the emergence of small forestry enterprises is initiated • Participatory Community Rights Mapping is institutionalized by government as a legal tool by government for forest & land management & decision-making • RRI-Cameroon’s proposal for the revision of the 1994 forest law is disseminated and submitted to decision-makers • MP’s have a position paper on land/forest rights and tenure of local communities and indigenous peoples • REFACOF Cameroon participates in the main decision- making platforms on land and forest tenure rights and has an advocacy document and plan for women’s tenure rights • IP representation in decision-making bodies for land and forest tenure is strengthened • The RRI coalition is represented in the national REDD commission and creates dialogue around REDD process & risks/opportunities with COMIFAC, government bodies, CSOs, IPs, local communities, local elected officials and MP’s • Better collaboration between MINDAF and the RRI coalition FPP ICRAF CAFT Cameroon Ecology CED CIFOR IUCN REFACOF Liberia • Enactment of a Community Rights Law that is acceptable to all stakeholders • The land commission and FDA agree on a policy position to address forest and land tenure reforms • Liberian local civil society platform capacity is strengthened and enhanced, and community forest management committees are brought into the mainstream discussion on forests • State recognizes and regulates pit-sawyers • Women’s involvement in forest governance and management is consolidated and strengthened • Community rights and tenure are part of Liberian REDD national policy • Clear national strategy and advocacy for the amendment of the Community Rights Law (CRL) • Social contracts in concession areas are consistent with CRL • Land Commission includes the CRL and it in its policy • Legal recognition of pit-sawing, with at least one permit issued, and few community groups organize and start up small enterprises • More women’s groups receive training and are better organized to participate in forest governance processes and identify small-scale economic activities • National policy-makers, including Executive and Legislative branches recognize and respect the rights of communities in the implementation of REDD projects in Liberia FCI Green Advocates IUCN REFACOF SDI Tier 2
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RRI Africa 2011 – 2012 Work-Plan Summary I. Regional Overview Dates of planning meetings in 2010: August 28: Accra, Ghana September 14-15: Monrovia, Liberia September 20-21: Yaoundé, Cameroon October 6-7: Bamako, Mali
October 18-22: Busua Beach, Ghana (regional planning meeting) *Burkina Faso did not have a country planning meeting; IUCN and the tenure champions discussed 2011 activities and budget
Strategic outcomes 2012 Outcomes 2011 Partners/ Collaborators
Region • AU and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have a clear platform and agenda on community ownership rights
• Community organizations more effectively advocate for their rights
• Parliamentarians, Mayors, and local government administration are engaged and advocate for community rights
• Community rights are recognized, protected, and advanced in the REDD process
• Gender rights are clearly articulated and incorporated in tenure reform programs
• RRI agenda is introduced to key regional policy bodies & agencies: COMIFAC, ACHPR, MRU, AfDB, AU, UNECA
• Community/CS networks interested in tenure and rights are mapped
• Regional Parliamentarian networks have a better understanding of the rights and tenure agenda
• Civil society and communities in Africa are engaged with REDD++ processes and have a common understanding to position regarding REDD, climate change and rights
• Gender analysis on tenure legislation and regulations is done in all RRI countries in Africa and the African Resource Rights Network (ACRN) is engaged on gender
FPP ICRAF Intercooperation ACRN CIFOR IUCN REFACOF
Tier 1 Cameroon • ATEMs are enabled in new forest laws and related
policies • New legal and forest policy reforms recognize the
historic rights of local communities and indigenous peoples.
• Elected officials (parliamentarians and local councilors) commit to defend local communities’ rights, particularly rights of women and indigenous peoples
• Women’s rights are formally recognized in reforms of forest law and policy reforms
• Local communities, especially women & indigenous peoples, are represented &participate in decision-making processes regarding land & forests
• Issues of rights and tenure are taken into account in REDD and climate change policies and mechanisms
• Current ly separate land and forest reforms are coordinated for a better recognition of community rights
• A business climate favoring the emergence of small forestry enterprises is initiated
• Participatory Community Rights Mapping is institutionalized by government as a legal tool by government for forest & land management & decision-making
• RRI-Cameroon’s proposal for the revision of the 1994 forest law is disseminated and submitted to decision-makers
• MP’s have a position paper on land/forest rights and tenure of local communities and indigenous peoples
• REFACOF Cameroon participates in the main decision-making platforms on land and forest tenure rights and has an advocacy document and plan for women’s tenure rights
• IP representation in decision-making bodies for land and forest tenure is strengthened
• The RRI coalition is represented in the national REDD commission and creates dialogue around REDD process & risks/opportunities with COMIFAC, government bodies, CSOs, IPs, local communities, local elected officials and MP’s
• Better collaboration between MINDAF and the RRI coalition
FPP ICRAF CAFT Cameroon Ecology CED CIFOR IUCN REFACOF
Liberia • Enactment of a Community Rights Law that is acceptable to all stakeholders
• The land commission and FDA agree on a policy position to address forest and land tenure reforms
• Liberian local civil society platform capacity is strengthened and enhanced, and community forest management committees are brought into the mainstream discussion on forests
• State recognizes and regulates pit-sawyers • Women’s involvement in forest governance and
management is consolidated and strengthened • Community rights and tenure are part of Liberian REDD
national policy
• Clear national strategy and advocacy for the amendment of the Community Rights Law (CRL)
• Social contracts in concession areas are consistent with CRL • Land Commission includes the CRL and it in its policy • Legal recognition of pit-sawing, with at least one permit
issued, and few community groups organize and start up small enterprises
• More women’s groups receive training and are better organized to participate in forest governance processes and identify small-scale economic activities
• National policy-makers, including Executive and Legislative branches recognize and respect the rights of communities in the implementation of REDD projects in Liberia
FCI Green Advocates IUCN REFACOF SDI
Tier 2
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Mali
• Local conventions and community rights guaranteed in decentralization laws and process
• Decentralized management of forest and land resources is effective and recognizes peasant agroforestry rights
• Tenure rights issues related to Pastoralism are identified and taken into account in forest and land reform processes
• New laws support gender equity and the protection of socioeconomic and cultural rights
• Government decision making bodies (HCC and CADD) and the National Assembly include a right-based approach through local conventions in their agenda
• Legal texts, regulations, and tools on managing trees in peasants fields (agroforesty) are drafted
• The gender strategy of the Ministry of women’s and children’s affairs (MPFEF) and the agriculture law (LOA) decrees incorporate gender dimensions
• Best practices for securing traditional and women’s legal tenure rights are documented
• A subregional dialogue and platform on pastoralism is initiated
Intercooperation ICRAF IUCN Sahel Eco
Burkina Faso
• NTFPs’ potential is recognized in national plans, sectoral policies and forest inventory and a national information network is established
• Gender is taken into account in national plans for forest management and climate change initiatives
• Communes are well informed about legal frameworks and mechanisms regarding forest and land tenure, and establish a monitoring mechanism to defend their interests
• Roles and responsibilities of different actors in decentralized forest management are clearly defined
• Contribute to strengthening national capacity for conducting studies in value chain, gender and tenure issues
• Legal texts are disseminated/translated and adopted by communities and actors
• The Civil Society Organizations’ Gender Platform for Burkina Faso is established
• Forest tenure and rights are incorporated in the drafting of rural land charters
• Local elected officials and local communities are better informed about forest governance and climate change adaptation
CIFOR IUCN REFACOF Tenure Champions
Ghana
• Communities’ ownership rights guaranteed in national legislation
• Institutional reforms to support and regulate CFM • Communities are systematically developing capacity for
alternative resource management • Media engagement on community rights is sustained
and network of media practitioners strengthened • Threats to community rights in ongoing REDD+
initiatives neutralized
• Alternative NR governance (policy, legislation and institutions) regime fully presented to Ghanaian society
• Reformist group in FC management consolidated • Stronger community based governance reform movement • Stronger media focus on NR governance issues • Information about REDD developments and their implications
circulated to CBOs and CSOs commenced
Civic Response Forest Watch Ghana IUCN REFACOF
Overall budget requested for 2011: $962,151 (Priority 1); $714,347 (Priority 2)
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II. Planning Teams 2.1 Regional Planning Team
Partner/Collaborator Participant Email Civic Response (Partner) Kyeretwie Opoku [email protected]
Rhoda Panford [email protected] Saeed Razak [email protected]
Cameroon Ecology Cécile Ndjebet [email protected] Rose Pélagie Masso [email protected]
Centre pour l’Environnement et Développement (CED)
Samuel Nguiffo [email protected] Samuel Nnah [email protected] Nadine Mballa [email protected]
CIFOR Michael Balinga [email protected] Mathurin Zida [email protected]
CAFT Patrice Pa’ah [email protected] Foundation for Community Initiatives Julie Weah [email protected] Forest Peoples Programme (Partner) John Nelson [email protected]
Valérie Couillard [email protected] Venant Messe [email protected]
Forest Watch Ghana Kingsley Bekoe-Ansah [email protected] Green Advocates Alfred Brownell [email protected]
Francis Colee [email protected] ICRAF (Partner) Antoine Kalinganire [email protected]
Serge Ngendakumana [email protected] Zac Tchoundjeu [email protected]
Intercooperation (Partner) Célestin Dembélé [email protected] Hermann Mulder [email protected]
IUCN Adewale Adeleke [email protected] Abdulai Barrie [email protected] Rokia Diarra Konaré [email protected] Dominique Endamana [email protected] Clarisse Honadia [email protected] Moumini Savodogo [email protected] Edmund Barrow [email protected] Chantal Wandja [email protected] Léonard Usongo [email protected]
REFACOF Cécile Ndjebet [email protected] Korotoumou Ouedraogo [email protected] Antoinette Pa’ah [email protected]
Sahel Eco Mamadou Diakité [email protected] Mary Allen Ballo [email protected]
Sustainable Development Institute James Otto [email protected] Silas Siakor [email protected] Jonathan Yiah [email protected]
RRG
Augusta Molnar [email protected] Solange Bandiaky (coordinator) [email protected] Ann Dela Apekey (facilitator) [email protected] Marina France [email protected]
2.2 Current collaborators in region (15 collaborators, 6 countries) • Africa Community Rights Network (ACRN) • African Women’s Network for Community Management
of Forests (REFACOF) • Cameroon Ecology – Cameroon • Coopérative Agroforestière de la Trinationale –
Cameroon • Centre for Environment and Development (CED) –
Cameroon • Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) –
Cameroon, Burkina Faso • Forests Monitor – DRC and UK
• Forests and the European Union Research Network (FERN) – UK
• Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) – Ghana • Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) – Liberia • Green Advocates – Liberia • International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) – Burkina, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Mali • Sahel Eco – Mali • Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) – Liberia • Tenure Champions – Burkina
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III. Africa - Regional 3.1 Regional Overview 3.2 RRI Strategy in Africa Rationale for Engagement Africa faces monumental problems of resource degradation and scarcity, weak governance, continued social exclusion and marginalization, violent conflict and increasing rural poverty. One of the main challenges to forest tenure reform in Africa (notably in Central Africa) is that governments are strongly committed to a conventional forest economy model based on industrial timber concessions, at the cost of community based forest management, even though the latter has greater potential to contribute to equitable growth and livelihoods. In Africa, the forest area officially administered by government is 98% of the total; while the area of forest designated for use by communities and indigenous groups is 1.4%; and 0.5% of the area is owned by communities and indigenous groups (Sunderlin et al. 2008). This data clouds the reality of widespread customary management of forests across Africa. As presented in the Listening Learning and Sharing (LLSL) Report of 2008, the alliance formed by the State and the private sector around natural resource is seen to illustrate a “State focused on rent appropriation” to the detriment of local communities. In Africa, governments claims statutory ownership of the majority and the richer of forest lands, in official denial of the vast area of forests and agroforests that are de facto or through customary rules and regimes under community management. Generally the state in Central and West Africa has retained control of high value forests and forest lands, and made it difficult (heavy regulations, permits, detailed management plans) for communities to market high value timber. The status quo favors governments through income flows from private sector timber concessions to the state, and supports agency distrust of decentralizing forest lands to either co-management or recognized community ownership. Even on their own land, local communities have been disadvantaged by the informal nature of their land rights. Unnecessarily and paradoxically, communities living in forest rich areas in Africa are poor: “rich forests, poor people” (Oyono, 2005). It is the forested countries in Africa that will not meet the MDG goal of halving poverty by 2015, even when rich traditions and informal forest enterprises are found through the region (RRI, 2008, Seeing People through the Trees). Timber concessions are not increasing income or employment because so few are well enough managed, assure good governance or effectively channel revenues to communities. Concessions do not
Poverty, tenure and emissions in Africa The Rural poor (<$1/day)
make up one third of the population of Africa — 229 million people.
98% of the region’s forests claimed by government and 18% of global forest carbon emissions.
UN-REDD: 3 countries; WB FCPF: 10 countries (two Tier 1: Cameroon & Liberia.)
Sources: Ravaillon & Chen. 2007. Absolute Poverty Measures for the Developing World, 1981-
2004. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4211. Sunderlin et. al. 2008. From Exclusion to Ownership? Rights and Resources Initiative.
(Angola, Cameroon, CAR, Congo, DRC, Gabon, Sudan, Tanzania & Zambia — 67% of
African forests.)
Administered by government
Designated for use by comm./IP Owned by comm./IP
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deliver; and their managers increasingly hail from local emerging economies where there is limited commitment to high social and environmental standards. A challenge for key forested countries in the region going forward is that new concessions are expanding in putting new pressure on forest lands already claimed by people for large scale agriculture or energy plantations and mining. Key threats and challenges Forest management in Africa faces many threats linked to conflicts, resource scarcity, poorly crafted REDD mechanisms and climate change policies, the promotion of industrial concessions over small and medium community forest enterprises, and the lack of participatory democracy in forest governance and decentralization. Migration Migration is already a difficult issue within many forested countries. New entrants to the political economic mix complicate tenure relations and in many cases undermine tenure security and political stability (for example in Cameroon). This trend is set to escalate with climate change if predictions of a 50% reduction in rainfall and agricultural productivity in the Sahel by 2020 bear out. This could lead to a massive wave of environmental migration from e.g. northern Nigeria south towards countries in the upper and lower Guinea forests. Without serious regional planning, this can only lead to chaos. The Sahel is “drying up” and it has implications for some 30 million people mainly in the Mano River area where conflicts over resources are already spreading (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Conakry, and Ivory Coast). REDD and climate change The high-level global discussions on REDD do not yet feature practical guidance on the “social element” (e.g. rights, livelihoods, tenure etc.). Regional climate mitigation engagement lacks clear avenues for community empowerment, with REDD seen by the African governments mainly as a source of finance to the central government. Instead of proposing built-in mechanisms whereby communities can benefit from REDD compensation and contribute a solution to climate change, there are already shifts in production in response to climate change combined with new pressures from mining, eco-tourism and industrial plantations (carbon). REDD processes as they strengthen are becoming a direct threat to community customary tenure. The governments’ official position is that local people/ farmers (concerned about agriculture for survival) are the main drivers of deforestation. There is a need to provide an alternative analysis to the mainstream narrative on drivers of deforestation and to geographically refocus priorities. And for REDD to work, there should be active good forest governance – nationally, provincially, and at the community level. The main challenge is how to push for pro-poor REDD without clear tenure rights established? Climate change also has huge impact for drylands and savannah countries with great impact on pastoral livelihoods particularly in parts of the world where droughts lead to famine and poverty (Brooks, 2006). Therefore, developing adaptation strategies are key for Sahelian countries, yet the international community is more focused on mitigation strategies and on the Congo Basin. Forest governance and decentralization Despite the growing trend in the region of governments promoting decentralization, shifting some key responsibilities to local government bodies and in some cases, devolving limited authorities over land and resources to local to private and civil society, the implementation of decentralization remains fiercely resisted in many quarters, and reforms have often been too limited in scope. They do not adequately reflect the new shifts in rights and much less, concern for the most underprivileged. In parallel, many governments continue to centralize authority on strategic development issues such as commercial mining, forest concessions and schemes for climate mitigation. In a number of countries, decentralization processes have resulted in local government bodies more overtly questioning the legitimacy of the status quo and of elite national or international economic interests, promoting local community initiatives and tenure instead. Although the rhetoric of decentralization is promising, government transfer of power is yet to be effective; and with REDD one witnesses a recentralization of power by governments who want to control funding and financial mechanisms tied to mitigation strategies.
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Land grabs Forest governance in Africa is hampered by extensive land grabbing and elite capture of resources for industrial concessions, bio-energy, rice-paddy, plantations (palm oil, eucalyptus) and mining. Since 2008, a sharp increase in global demand for fuel, fiber and food has intensified pressure on African land and resources, not least of all forests. More than 70% of the 45 million ha of large-scale land deals (cited by the World Bank) are in Sub-Saharan Africa, and these acquisitions proliferate in areas of weak governance and inadequate legal protection for local communities. The trend of acquisitions by Asian and Middle Eastern investors favors the industrial scale both in farmland and in forests, where large-scale timber concessions have long been a challenge to strong local rights and livelihoods. By increasing the value of land, the “land grabs” may also encourage the recentralizing trend of African governments and compromise initiatives for locally-determined, sustainable development. Operating outside of the new industrial concessionary system, local communities’ customary agriculture and forestry practices may suffer even more, especially if they fail to gain recognition and support from international donors. Social Exclusion, Inequity, and Gender Although reforms are taking place in several African countries in response to a growing movement of communities claiming rights to participate in the processes regarding resource use and conservation, there is much less a concern for the most underprivileged — women and indigenous people. Women’s tenure rights under customary and formal laws remain largely unrecognized; their rights are insufficiently considered in policy and law reforms and in the related national and international agenda and have been understudied and under-addressed. Prevalent forest and land laws and regulatory frameworks are by and large prejudicial against women, who are usually under-represented in policy discussions In the Sahel, pastoralist indigenous communities live in arid territories and dry forests where climate and population shifts affect these transhumant economies, that are politically marginal yet causing increasing conflicts with farmers over water and grazing lands. Across Central Africa, indigenous peoples, such as the Baka and Bagyeli, are also at risk as their customary tenure rights and livelihoods strategies are poorly understood and poorly respected. Social exclusion and inequitable access to land and resources continue to drive social conflict, and put additional pressure on forest resources and forest livelihoods. This creates a major limitation for addressing or mitigating the impacts of climate change, securing peace, or fueling the economy. Addressing the challenges of further climate change, increased migration, and resource degradation requires more attention to tenure and gender equity, and to the local networks and organizations that advance them. Opportunities Despite the daunting obstacles to realization of improved statutory forest tenure reform, there are some visible signs of progress. Many African countries are now beginning to consider, if not act on far-reaching legal and policy tenure reforms regarding forests and land. Of the twenty most forested countries that have adopted new important new forest land reforms since 2000, 8 are in Africa. The absolute area of publicly-claimed forest designated for use by communities and indigenous groups in these 8 countries has increased from 1.83 Mha in 2002 to 7.67 Mha in 2008 (Hatcher, Bailey, and Sunderlin, 2009; Hatcher, and Bailey, 2009). Many countries across Central and West Africa provide strategic opportunities for impact in the immediate future. In Liberia, the “Community Rights Law”, a watershed reform effort that would recognize community ownership of forests has been hotly debated from local to national levels and is being considered by the different stakeholders for review to improve the recognition of community rights. In Cameroon, the 1994 Forestry Law, which increased the opportunities for communities to manage forest and benefit from industrial concessions, is also under reform. RRI Partners and Collaborators have played a key role in instigating these two reforms and are actively involved in enabling widespread consultation and providing technical analysis and advice at the national level, linked to the FLEGT and REDD dialogue. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the 2002 Forest Code is under revision with national consultations with various stakeholders for recognition of local communities and indigenous people’s rights in legal reforms, and RRI has been invited by the government, NGOs and donors knowledgeable of our work to provide advice. Similar major legal reforms or policy initiatives are underway in Ghana, Burkina Faso and
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Mali, and RRI Partners and Collaborators are also actively engaged in each of these countries. It is particularly good news to see the increased attention being paid to land reform issues across Africa. After years of debate, and sidelining of land issues, the 13th Ordinary session of AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government which took place in Sirte, Libya, from 1 to 3 July 2009, adopted a “Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa” that states “…the centrality of land to sustainable socio-economic growth, development and the security of the social, economic and cultural livelihoods of [Africa’s] people.” The AU joint Conference of Ministers of Agriculture, Lands and Livestock held in April 2010 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia also endorsed a Framework and Guidelines on Land policy in Africa (F&G). The F&G is the result of three years of reflections, assessments and multi-stakeholder consultations conducted by the AU-ECA- AfDB Consortium under the auspices of the Land Policy initiative that encourages governments to recognize and strengthen indigenous, community and women’s land rights. It also supports the growing trend in the region of government’s promoting decentralization policies, moving toward shifting some authority to local government bodies and in some cases, devolution of limited authorities over land and resources to local private and civil society. Opportunities are also growing for local people to better benefit from markets: in small-scale enterprises for wood and non-wood forest products, social responsibility markets, community-led conservation, and emerging ecosystem service markets. Domestic markets in developing countries are growing. The good news is that the dramatic shifts in markets include the growing demand for farm-produced wood and other forest products and a shift in demand to domestic and non-traditional markets. There is demand from governments, forest communities and supporting NGOs for sharing knowledge on the multiple options for and benefits of forest-based enterprises based on collective action In some countries recent decentralization policies and laws are shifting the balance of power toward local governance and community tenure rights, and away from centrally-mandated concessions. A growing set of social movements are questioning the conventional tenure and enterprise models and calling for reform of forest tenure and policy. Community organizations and local NGOs have gained substantial capacity in recent years and are becoming stronger and more credible voices in policy debates. The FLEGT, VPA, and REDD dialogues are providing important leverage platforms for governance reforms. RRI Partners are well established in the region and have strong connections to both community organizations and policy makers. In early 2009, RRI also began to develop a more gender-focused analysis and engagement. This has included the initiation of a coalition-wide analysis on gender legislation/regulatory tenure in Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Liberia. RRI also works with, and in support of women’s groups and networking women's groups across Africa through the Africa Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF; formed during the international conference on tenure organized by RRI in May 2009 in Yaoundé), building their knowledge of positive examples of reforms and strategic engagement for policy influence. Some coalition members who were reluctant (or thought they were fighting a bigger battle) have also become more interested in gender equity and are modifying their own thinking on tenure and rights priorities to include this dimension. For 2011, gender has been mainstreamed in all RRI country and regional work plans and strategy. In October 11-12, 2010 the Rights and Resources Initiative co-organized the pre-African Development Forum VII event, “Africa Regional Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change” with the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). This regionally strategic event contributed to the knowledge linkages between climate change, forest governance and land tenure for over eighty delegates from twenty African states representing communities, governments, researchers, women’s groups, parliamentarians, and NGOs. It also developed key recommendations on how to effectively mitigate and adapt to climate change in Africa while ensuring Equity, Livelihoods, Rights, and Sustainable Development in Forest Areas. It has catalyzed new momentum and connections for RRI with African regional institutions such as AU, ECOWAS, AfDB, UNECA, and the Land Policy Initiative and opened avenues for future partnership at the regional level on issues of tenure and climate change.
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Tier 1 and Tier Two Countries In Central and West Africa, RRI is engaged in (but not limited to) Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Liberia but also draws upon regional activities and events. Cameroon and Liberia have been identified as Tier 1 countries because both governments are conducting active reforms in the region— Cameroon in a second generation of reform and Liberia in the first. Both can potentially demonstrate lessons to be shared with other parts of Africa (mainly in the Mano River and the Congo Basin) and both have civil society actors who are keen to collaborate with RRI on their own strengthening, learning and networking. Mali and Burkina Faso’s process of decentralization presents a key opportunity to enhance equity in natural resource management, while strengthening civil society actors and improving livelihoods. RRI strategic intervention in Mali and Burkina also has a sub-regional focus on the Sahel including additional countries such as Niger, Senegal, and Mauritania in dialogues around decentralization. RRI’s strategy reflects the different contexts of the Sahel and the Congo Basin, while exploiting the real synergies across Central and West Africa politically and in gathering lessons from relevant experience. Ghana has been identified as a key country for reform due to prospective legislative reforms and the presence of strong social actors in support of community forest management.
A. In Cameroon, RRI Partners and Collaborators, including, ICRAF, FPP, GACF, and RRG have been working on many fronts: facilitating dialogue and influencing the forestry reform law process to recognize community rights; engaging with local and indigenous communities in rights mapping; exploring alternative markets and enterprise models; engaging with women’s networks in community forest management, and addressing climate change and its implications for forest communities. The coalition has also initiated a dialogue between the Ministry of Forests (MINFOF) and the Ministry of Land (MINDAF) to create a platform for recognition of more substantial rights for communities. Cameroon Ecology, Agro-forestry Cooperative of the Trinationale (CAFT), and Center for Environment and Development (CED), IUCN, and CIFOR are active collaborators, with increased engagement in the legal reform and conservation model reform dialogue with Government.
B. In Ghana, Civic Response is leading collaboration to build capacity in the local reform movement promoting tenure and rights within the national legislative reform process. The new opportunities for legal and institutional support for community forest management have recently been identified by Partners and Collaborators. Ghana civil society collaborators are strengthening the movement for community based governance reform promoting district forest forums and informing community based organizations (CBOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) about REDD through a REDD listserv and capacity building and strategy workshops.
C. In Liberia, Green Advocates (GA) and the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) are leading effective implementation of the community rights law (CRL) passed in 2009 and signed by the President. GA with RRG and Civic Response has garnered parliamentarian´s support through the formation of an informal caucus of Parliamentarians for Community Rights. The Caucus is strong and plans to build a pro-rights block in both lower and upper houses of parliament. RRI-Liberia has also been active in raising the understanding of the links between forest and land tenure,organizing local and national workshops gathering key stakeholders in community forestry to develop joint strategy for rights advocacy, capacity building of Community Forest Development Committees (CFDCs), and promoting a legal regulatory framework for small community-owned forest enterprises and pitsawyers. Since June 1, 2010 RRI has embarked on a new and very promising gender project with Liberian community-based organization, Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI), creating a forum for women from the counties to network and organize to increase their participation in the decision-making processes for natural resource management and rights issues at the local and national levels.
D. In Mali, IUCN, IC, ICRAF, Sahel Eco and other local collaborators are working to create political spaces for the claiming of local rights and the promotion of community natural resource management agreements; influence the drafting of implementing provisions for local conventions concerning decentralization. IC has developed a joint advocacy strategy with the National
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Assembly of Mali for effective decentralization to Local Collectivities and recognition of Local Conventions where community rights are located. The RRI coalition has been a leading player on gender equity giving rare opportunity to rural women to publicly express their views and share their experiences, and to take part in the decisions which directly affect them.
E. In Burkina Faso, since 2009, RRI is engaged through IUCN and CIFOR with local government
ad local community groups to promote equity in forest resources management. The work with RRI has led to a national gender analysis on “gender, climate change, and tenure rights” and the identification and mobilization of tenure champions, something both unique and highly strategic. The key civil society organizations, the “tenure champions”, in Burkina are now mobilized around the RRI agenda with a clear strategy for 2011 on how to engage and create synergy with the different stakeholders mainly legislators, decision makers, and opinion leaders for gender equity and poverty reduction. This local ownership will reinforce RRI impact in Burkina and generate lessons on how to improve RRI communication with local communities.
F. In DRC, RRI is engaged with Forests Monitor on ‘‘Developing Community Forestry Management as a contribution to poverty reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, helping to identify appropriate models of tenure rights for DRC that are supportive of local enterprise and build on processes of decentralization. In 2010 RRG has commissioned an opportunity and risk assessment for engagement in 2011 analyzing the current forest governance landscape in DRC to inform further actions and strategies for rights-based implementation of forest and land laws. This intelligence ensures the RRI intervention is politically and strategically opportune, adds value and does not duplicate other initiatives.
G. At the regional level, RRI engages with regional institutions such as the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Land Policy Initiative (LPI), and the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) on climate change and forest governance, land tenure issues. RRI is also engaged with strategic regional networks:
a. The Parliamentarian Network for Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystem (REPAR), which is very much involved in the struggle for the recognition of community rights in Cameroon and Congo Basin on climate change issues; and the regional Parliamentarian Center, based in Accra.
b. The Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) to the ITTO has two representatives from Cameroon and Liberia, have influenced government projects to be more right-based, and developed new windows for finance for Community Based Forest Management (CBFM), and lobbied ITTO to include gender in its approved work program.
c. The Africa Community Rights Network (ACRN), network civil society organizations from nineteen countries in Africa is one manifestation of a wave of civil society activism and advocacy for democratic community forest management.
d. The Africa Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) founded by African women present at the RRI/ ITTO international conference on tenure in Yaoundé in May 2009 comprises women’s groups from eleven African countries. Its mission is to advocate that governments and international organizations recognize women’s forest and land tenure rights in their policy reforms and agendas and give women access to financing related to climate change.
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3.4
Com
plet
e C
ount
ry a
nd R
egio
nal A
ctiv
ity O
verv
iew
for A
fric
a
Ac
tivity
Ove
rvie
w
Ac
tiviti
es 2
011
Deta
ils/D
escr
iptio
n Le
ad (P
artn
ers a
nd
Colla
bora
tors
) Pr
iorit
y 1
Prio
rity
2 Fu
nds C
omm
itted
by
Par
tner
s
Regional
RRI
wor
k on
righ
ts a
nd te
nure
is in
trod
uced
an
d lin
ked
to k
ey re
gion
al in
stitu
tions
: es
tabl
ish c
orre
spon
denc
e , s
ecur
e m
eetin
gs/
invi
tatio
ns to
stra
tegi
c m
eetin
gs, a
nd e
stab
lish
cont
act w
ith su
breg
iona
l and
regi
onal
liai
son
offic
es
This
set o
f act
iviti
es is
des
igne
d to
ens
ure
RRI a
nd
its
part
ners
’ pa
rtic
ipat
ion
in
maj
or
regi
onal
de
cisio
n-m
akin
g m
eetin
gs a
nd t
o es
tabl
ish R
RI’s
re
latio
nshi
ps w
ith r
egio
nal i
nstit
utio
ns in
ord
er t
o ad
vanc
e di
scus
sions
on
right
s an
d te
nure
in
the
regi
on.
Key
inst
itutio
ns
iden
tifie
d ar
e:
ACHP
R,
MRU
, CO
MIF
AC, E
COW
AS, A
U, a
nd U
NEC
A/ L
PI.
A
key
stra
tegi
c ac
tion
will
be
to c
olla
te p
artn
er
and
colla
bora
tor
cont
acts
in r
egio
nal i
nstit
utio
ns
and
thro
ugh
them
de
fine
entr
y po
ints
in
to
regi
onal
inst
itutio
ns.
FPP
(RRG
, ent
ire
coal
ition
)
$40,
000
Prep
are
and
circ
ulat
e in
trod
ucto
ry b
riefin
g no
tes o
n RR
I pro
gram
s in
Afric
a (F
renc
h an
d En
glish
)
This
com
mun
icat
ion
outr
each
will
incr
ease
re
gion
al u
nder
stan
ding
and
aw
aren
ess o
f RRI
and
its
miss
ion,
and
will
be
an im
port
ant t
ool
part
icul
arly
whe
n in
itiat
ing
enga
gem
ent w
ith
regi
onal
inst
itutio
ns.
RRG
(Afr
ica
faci
litat
or,
Civi
c Re
spon
se)
$5
,000
Crea
te a
regi
onal
dat
abas
e of
civ
il so
ciet
y or
gani
zatio
ns e
ngag
ed o
n rig
hts a
nd te
nure
(u
sing
RRI B
urki
na d
atab
ase
as a
mod
el)
Und
erta
ke a
regi
onal
map
ping
exe
rcise
of
com
mun
ity n
etw
orks
and
CSO
s wor
king
on
tenu
re
and
right
s iss
ues
IUCN
, CIF
OR,
Civ
ic
Resp
onse
Enga
ge su
breg
iona
l par
liam
ents
and
May
or
netw
orks
and
car
ry o
ut a
n in
stitu
tiona
l m
appi
ng o
f sub
regi
onal
legi
slativ
e
netw
orks
, the
ir m
anag
emen
t and
ope
ratio
nal
fram
ewor
ks (
Wes
t, Ce
ntre
and
Eas
t Af
rica)
to :
-faci
litat
e th
e de
velo
pmen
t of r
egio
nal
posit
ions
for e
ffect
ive
repr
esen
tatio
n on
co
mm
unity
righ
ts a
nd p
riorit
ies f
or c
limat
e ch
ange
Ada
ptat
ion;
-t
o in
fluen
ce k
ey re
gion
al p
oliti
cal
orga
niza
tions
/pro
cess
es o
n pr
iorit
y po
sitio
ns
deve
lope
d (A
U, A
MCE
N e
tc)
This
set o
f act
iviti
es in
clud
es st
ockt
akin
g of
ex
istin
g pa
rliam
enta
ry n
etw
orks
and
the
regi
onal
an
d na
tiona
l lev
els,
as w
ell a
s net
wor
king
and
ca
mpa
igni
ng a
ctio
ns;
Map
pla
nned
act
iviti
es o
f diff
eren
t MP
grou
ps;
Atte
nd a
nd e
ngag
e in
mee
tings
to re
pres
ent t
he
initi
ativ
e Di
ssem
inat
e fin
ding
s and
dev
elop
stra
tegy
for
syne
rgy
and
linka
ges i
n re
gion
al re
pres
enta
tion;
Ex
chan
ge v
isits
bet
wee
n pa
rliam
enta
ry n
etw
orks
; Re
view
of p
arlia
men
tary
web
sites
, and
en
gage
men
t with
the
Accr
a Pa
rliam
enta
ry C
entr
e;
Build
ing
capa
citie
s of l
egisl
ativ
e ne
twor
ks fo
r ef
fect
ive
regi
onal
repr
esen
tatio
n on
com
mun
ity
right
s and
prio
ritie
s for
RED
D+ fr
amew
orks
NES
DA C
amer
oon,
(Civ
ic
Resp
onse
, Afr
ica
faci
litat
or)
$1
00,0
00
(fund
ing
may
co
me
from
Gl
obal
Pr
ogra
ms)
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The
Afric
a Co
mm
unity
Rig
hts N
etw
ork
(ACR
N)r
egio
nal m
eetin
g on
RED
D Th
e w
orks
hop
will
per
mit
part
icip
ants
to le
arn
abou
t the
pro
gres
s of R
EDD
with
in th
e U
NFC
CC
nego
tiatio
ns, l
earn
less
ons f
rom
cou
ntrie
s in
the
FCPF
and
UN
-RED
D fa
st st
art p
rogr
amm
e an
d st
rate
gise
on
how
to u
se R
EDD
to
effe
ctiv
ely
stre
ngth
en c
omm
unity
righ
ts a
nd
part
icip
atio
ns. T
he m
eetin
g w
ill a
lso p
erm
it AC
RN a
nd R
RI A
fric
a co
aliti
on to
stra
tegi
se o
n ho
w to
use
the
COP
17 o
n Af
rican
soil
to
adva
nce
com
mun
ity ri
ghts
The
aim
is to
ena
ble
ACRN
and
civ
il so
ciet
y ac
tors
to
dev
elop
a c
omm
on u
nder
stan
ding
and
pos
ition
re
gard
ing
REDD
, clim
ate
chan
ge a
nd ri
ghts
in
Afric
a;
This
mee
ting
will
affo
rd th
e op
port
unity
to g
ain
mor
e kn
owle
dge
and
stre
ngth
en th
e AC
RN
netw
ork.
The
re is
also
the
poss
ibili
ty o
f exp
andi
ng
the
netw
ork
to in
clud
e th
e RR
I coa
litio
n m
embe
rs
from
the
Sahe
l cou
ntrie
s;
The
doc
umen
tatio
n an
d ou
tcom
e of
this
mee
ting
will
feed
into
the
seco
nd A
fric
an R
egio
nal d
ialo
gue
on “
fore
st g
over
nanc
e an
d cl
imat
e ch
ange
” w
hich
w
ill b
e he
ld a
s a p
re-e
vent
to th
e CO
P 17
on
clim
ate
chan
ge in
Sou
th A
fric
a;
CED,
Civ
ic R
espo
nse
$50,
000
Org
anize
a re
gion
al g
ende
r wor
ksho
p on
Ge
nder
and
Lan
d an
d Fo
rest
Ten
ure
in A
fric
a w
ill g
athe
r ind
igen
ous w
omen
from
Cen
tral
Af
rica,
wom
en’s
net
wor
ks fr
om W
est,
Cent
ral,
and
East
Afr
ica
look
ing
at is
sues
rela
ted
to
loca
l and
indi
geno
us w
omen
’s te
nure
righ
ts,
gend
ered
tenu
re re
form
s, a
nd th
e cl
imat
e ch
ange
age
nda
from
a h
uman
righ
t pe
rspe
ctiv
e.
This
wor
ksho
p w
ill se
rve
as a
pla
tfor
m fo
r sha
ring
and
revi
ewin
g ge
nder
and
land
tenu
re st
udie
s fr
om c
ount
ry-le
vel a
naly
ses;
de
velo
p a
regi
onal
-leve
l ana
lysis
and
stra
tegy
and
st
reng
then
net
wor
king
am
ong
acto
rs e
ngag
ed in
ge
nder
righ
ts a
nd fo
rest
s;
shar
e na
tiona
l fin
ding
s and
bui
ld a
n ad
voca
cy
stra
tegy
; kno
wle
dge
shar
ing
abou
t Afr
ica
Uni
on
mec
hani
sms o
n in
dige
nous
wom
en; a
trai
ning
M
anua
l has
bee
n de
velo
ped
by F
PP
FPP,
REF
ACO
F, R
RI
part
ners
and
co
llabo
rato
rs in
Afr
ica
,
$50,
000
Tota
l Fun
ds R
eque
sted
for R
egio
nal A
ctiv
ities
: $1
00,0
00
$145
,000
Cameroon
“Cap
italiz
atio
n”/ C
olle
ctio
n: sy
nthe
sis o
f le
sson
s and
pro
blem
s for
SM
CFEs
W
orks
hop
: dia
logu
e w
ith d
ecisi
on-m
aker
s re
gard
ing
SMCF
Es
This
activ
ity e
ntai
ls:
a re
view
of 2
010
CAFT
repo
rts o
n CF
Es;
a lit
erat
ure
revi
ew o
f bus
ines
s pla
ns fo
r co
mm
unity
fore
sts,
revi
ew o
f adm
inist
rativ
e do
cum
ents
;
inte
rvie
ws a
nd v
isits
of h
igh-
leve
l min
istry
staf
f ch
arge
d w
ith :
SMFE
s, lo
cal p
roce
ssin
g of
tim
ber
and
NTF
Ps, d
omes
tic a
nd in
tern
atio
nal c
omm
erce
, co
mm
unity
and
nat
iona
l tax
atio
n;
draf
ting
a do
cum
ent t
o ca
ptur
e le
sson
s lea
rned
; or
gani
zatio
n of
a m
ulti-
stak
ehol
der d
ialo
gue;
and
pr
intin
g an
d di
ssem
inat
ion
of th
e do
cum
ent
capt
urin
g le
sson
s lea
rned
and
exp
erie
nces
;
CAFT
(CE
D, R
EFAC
OF)
$4
1,70
0
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Colle
ctio
n, S
ynth
esis
of th
emat
ic m
aps d
one
by R
RI p
artn
ers a
nd c
olla
bora
tors
ove
r the
pa
st tw
o ye
ars,
org
anize
a n
atio
nal w
orks
hop
to d
issem
inat
e fin
ding
s, a
nd d
evel
op p
lan
for
advo
cacy
Mai
n ob
ject
ive
: to
prom
ote
the
lega
l rec
ogni
tion
of p
artic
ipat
ory
map
ping
as a
tool
for l
ocal
co
mm
uniti
es to
hav
e th
eir r
ight
s to
land
and
fo
rest
s aut
horiz
ed a
nd fo
rmal
ly re
cogn
ized
(bas
ed
on a
reco
mm
enda
tion
from
the
May
200
9 Ya
ound
é co
nfer
ence
) -
This
wor
ksho
p w
ill e
ngag
e hi
gh-le
vel o
ffici
als
from
rele
vant
adm
inist
ratio
n on
thes
e iss
ues t
o m
ake
curr
ent i
nfor
mat
ion
on c
omm
uniti
es’ t
enur
e rig
hts a
vaila
ble
to re
leva
nt a
dmin
istra
tions
-T
he tw
o ab
ove
activ
ities
will
be
help
ful i
n dr
aftin
g an
adv
ocac
y do
cum
ent t
o su
bmit
to th
e Pr
ime
Min
ister
, the
thre
e m
ajor
min
istrie
s (M
INFO
F,
MIN
DAF,
MIN
EPAT
) as w
ell a
s the
Pre
siden
t of t
he
Repu
blic
.
Cam
Eco
(CED
, ICR
AF,
FPP)
$35,
000
$34,
768
RRI e
ngag
emen
t to
the
revi
ew o
f the
199
4 fo
rest
law
mai
nly
the
diss
emin
atio
n of
the
RRI
prop
osal
on
the
them
atic
are
a “r
ight
s, te
nure
, an
d co
mm
unity
fore
st e
nter
prise
s” to
the
mai
n ac
tors
and
to sh
are
Fi
ndin
gs fr
om R
RI re
sear
ch, d
iffer
ent
com
mun
ity c
onsu
ltatio
ns, c
ase
stud
ies,
lega
l an
alys
is, a
nd n
atio
nal a
nd lo
cal w
orks
hops
re
com
men
datio
ns a
nd o
utco
mes
, org
anize
d by
RRI
Cam
eroo
n co
aliti
on m
embe
rs
Few
mee
tings
(tw
o or
thre
e) w
ill b
e or
gani
zed
by
RRI-C
amer
oon
with
mem
bers
of t
he w
orki
ng g
roup
to
the
revi
ew o
f the
law
and
stra
tegi
c pa
rtne
rs to
sh
are
the
findi
ngs o
f the
con
sulta
tions
, wor
ksho
ps,
stud
ies,
and
map
ping
car
ried
out o
ver t
he la
st tw
o ye
ars b
y RR
I par
tner
s and
col
labo
rato
rs in
Ca
mer
oon.
A
rest
itutio
n w
orks
hop
(hal
f or o
ne d
ay) w
ith th
e w
orki
ng g
roup
and
stra
tegi
c pa
rtne
rs to
disc
uss R
RI
prop
osal
to th
e re
visio
n of
the
law
All R
RI C
amer
oon
coal
ition
mem
bers
$3
0,00
0
Mee
tings
with
par
liam
enta
rians
on
a p
ositi
on
pape
r on
land
and
fore
st te
nure
to in
fluen
ce
the
revi
ew p
roce
ss o
f the
199
4 fo
rest
law
This
activ
ity a
ims m
ainl
y at
brid
ging
the
disc
onne
cts b
etw
een
fore
stry
reso
urce
s m
anag
emen
t act
ors o
n th
e fie
ld, p
olic
y m
aker
s in
the
proc
ess o
f the
199
4 fo
rest
ry la
w re
view
in
Cam
eroo
n;
Info
rmal
mee
tings
for g
uidi
ng M
Ps in
pos
ition
pa
per o
n rig
hts &
tenu
re;
Org
anizi
ng th
e ex
tend
ed m
ulti
stak
ehol
ders
(MPs
, tr
aditi
onal
rule
rs, s
tate
serv
ices
, loc
al c
omm
unity
le
ader
s and
NGO
s) o
n fa
rmer
s ‘pe
rcep
tions
, re
curr
ent c
laim
s and
pub
lic g
rieva
nces
to
be ta
ken
into
acc
ount
in th
e ne
w le
gal t
exts
ICRA
F (IU
CN)
$2
5,00
0
$4,6
00
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ork
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Iden
tific
atio
n of
exi
stin
g fo
rest
and
land
pl
atfo
rms a
nd re
form
pro
cess
es a
nd
mob
iliza
tion
of w
omen
’s g
roup
s to
advo
cacy
fo
r w
omen
’s te
nure
righ
ts in
pol
icy
refo
rms
Obj
ectiv
es :
- En
ablin
g th
e re
cogn
ition
of
w
omen
’s in
tere
sts
in
the
1994
fo
rest
la
w
refo
rm
proc
ess
- Sh
arin
g RE
FACO
F’s
visio
n in
pla
tfor
ms
enga
ged
with
def
endi
ng c
omm
unity
rig
hts
to
land
and
fore
sts,
and
with
wom
en’s
pro
pert
y rig
hts
- Fa
cilit
ate
dial
ogue
am
ong
stak
ehol
ders
w
ithin
the
deci
sion-
mak
ing
proc
ess
Mai
n ac
tions
-
A sc
opin
g of
exi
stin
g w
omen
’s n
etw
orks
fo
r col
labo
ratio
n -
Draf
t and
impl
emen
t an
advo
cacy
pla
n fo
r sup
port
ing
wom
en’s
tenu
re
- N
atio
nal w
orks
hop
with
dec
ision
-mak
ers
rega
rdin
g th
e w
omen
’s la
nd a
nd fo
rest
righ
ts
REFA
COF
Cam
eroo
n (C
amer
oon
Ecol
ogy)
$25,
000
$15,
000
Nat
iona
l pre
para
tory
wor
ksho
p : I
Ps a
nd
land
/for
est o
wne
rshi
p rig
hts
The
over
arch
ing
obje
ctiv
e is
to sp
ark
polit
ical
ch
ange
to e
nsur
e th
e re
pres
enta
tion
of in
dige
nous
pe
ople
s in
deci
sion-
mak
ing
plat
form
s reg
ardi
ng
land
and
fore
sts i
n Ca
mer
oon
and
Cent
ral A
fric
a.
Spec
ifica
lly th
ese
activ
ities
will
lead
to :
• Pa
rtne
r ins
titut
ions
app
rovi
ng a
str
ateg
y fo
r adv
ocac
y an
d co
mm
unic
atio
n
• Im
plem
entin
g th
e ad
voca
cy a
nd
com
mun
icat
ion
stra
tegy
•
Stre
ngth
enin
g di
alog
ue a
mon
g ac
tors
re
gard
ing
indi
geno
us p
eopl
es’ l
and
and
fore
st
right
s
IUCN
(FPP
, CED
)
$40,
000
Part
icip
atio
n of
key
IP g
roup
s (th
at
part
icip
ated
in th
e na
tiona
l pre
para
tory
w
orks
hop)
Advo
cacy
for i
nvol
ving
the
coal
ition
in R
EDD
bodi
es a
nd p
latf
orm
s ; in
form
atio
n an
d aw
aren
ess-
raisi
ng fo
r sta
keho
lder
s
The
mai
n ou
tcom
e w
ould
be
the
fore
st
com
mun
ities
’ mas
tery
of o
ther
em
ergi
ng q
uest
ions
es
peci
ally
RED
D to
war
ds ro
bust
ince
ntiv
es
deve
lopm
ent a
nd th
eir i
nteg
ratio
n in
to th
e up
com
ing
lega
l tex
ts in
Cam
eroo
n
ICRA
F (C
am E
co)
$15,
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10,8
44
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ulta
tions
with
indi
geno
us c
omm
uniti
es in
po
tent
ial R
EDD
sites
Th
is in
volv
es c
onsu
ltatio
ns, t
rain
ings
and
w
orks
hops
thro
ugho
ut th
e N
goyl
a M
into
m a
rea:
in
form
ing,
con
sulti
ng a
nd p
repa
ring
indi
geno
us
peop
le fo
r the
mee
ting
with
con
serv
atio
n an
d go
vern
men
t act
ors i
n N
goyl
a, a
nd h
elpi
ng th
em
deve
lop
legi
timat
e co
mm
unity
repr
esen
tativ
es
who
can
form
net
wor
ks to
legi
timat
ely
repr
esen
t co
mm
uniti
es’ i
nter
ests
in re
latio
n to
RED
D an
d an
y ot
her i
ssue
s of c
once
rn.
CED
and
FPP
$35,
000
$15,
000
Nat
iona
l wor
ksho
p w
ith
MIN
DAF/
MIN
FOF/
MIN
EPAT
on
land
and
fo
rest
tenu
re
This
wor
ksho
p w
ill e
ngag
e hi
gh-le
vel o
ffici
als f
rom
re
leva
nt a
dmin
istra
tion
on is
sues
rela
ted
to fo
rest
an
d la
nd; a
nd h
ow to
mak
e su
re th
e tw
o go
vern
men
t dep
artm
ents
wor
k to
geth
er fo
r a
mor
e ef
fect
ive
tenu
re re
form
;
Cam
Eco
(ICR
AF, C
IFO
R)
$30,
000
$9,5
35
Tota
l Fun
ds R
eque
sted
for C
amer
oon
Activ
ities
: $2
46,7
00
$119
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Liberia
Supp
ort f
our C
FDCs
and
hos
t com
mun
ities
to
deve
lop
stra
tegy
and
act
ions
to a
dvoc
ate
for
rene
gotia
tion
of th
eir S
A’s a
nd n
ew c
ontr
act
signi
ngs;
raise
aw
aren
ess o
f tax
obl
igat
ions
, e.
g. E
IAs,
and
pot
entia
l env
ironm
enta
l im
pact
s if
com
pani
es fa
il to
resp
ect E
IAs
Wor
k w
ith 4
CFD
Cs in
volv
ed in
the
cam
paig
n fo
r re
nego
tiatio
n an
d us
e th
eir s
ituat
ion
as te
st c
ases
in
the
cam
paig
n fo
r rev
iew
and
rene
gotia
tion.
Thi
s en
gage
men
t will
info
rm w
ork
with
oth
er C
FDCs
al
so in
tere
sted
in p
ursu
ing
revi
ew a
nd
rene
gotia
tion
of th
eir S
As. T
he p
roje
ct w
ill u
se th
e ou
tcom
e of
the
lega
l ana
lysis
as a
bas
is to
dev
elop
a
new
neg
otia
ting
man
date
for C
FDCs
. SDI
will
also
pr
ovid
e on
goin
g fa
cilit
atio
n, te
chni
cal,
lega
l and
fin
anci
al su
ppor
t to
CFDC
s thr
ough
out t
he
nego
tiatio
n pr
oces
s and
will
pro
vide
per
iodi
c up
date
on
the
stat
us o
f com
pani
es’ c
ompl
ianc
e.
SDI (
ACO
RD, L
iber
ia,
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes)
$3
7,57
0
Raise
com
mun
ities
’ aw
aren
ess o
f RED
D an
d pl
anta
tion
deve
lopm
ent a
nd im
pact
s on
com
mun
ity ri
ghts
; nat
iona
l sta
keho
lder
s w
orks
hops
Iden
tify
and
cata
logu
e co
mm
uniti
es w
here
RED
D (c
arbo
n tr
adin
g) p
roje
cts a
nd a
gric
ultu
ral
conc
essio
ns a
re p
lann
ed a
nd b
uild
aw
aren
ess
on
the
pote
ntia
l neg
ativ
e im
pact
s of t
hese
pro
ject
s on
com
mun
ity ri
ghts
via
thre
e co
mm
unity
-leve
l civ
il so
ciet
y w
orks
hops
on
land
and
fore
sts a
nd a
na
tiona
l-lev
el st
akeh
olde
rs’ w
orks
hop
to p
rese
nt
issue
s fro
m th
e fie
ld a
nd to
dev
elop
com
mon
ac
tions
and
nex
t ste
ps
SDI
$22,
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$31,
410
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Info
rmal
cau
cus i
nfor
med
by
inte
rnal
stud
y to
urs a
nd R
RI su
ppor
t at n
atio
nal l
evel
; Fa
cilit
ate
at le
ast 3
con
sulta
tive
outr
each
vi
sits t
o re
gion
al a
nd su
breg
iona
l bod
ies
(ECO
WAS
, UEM
OA,
MRU
) and
with
pa
rliam
enta
rians
in M
ano
Rive
r
Parli
amen
taria
n ca
ucus
pla
ns re
gion
al e
xcha
nge
with
par
liam
enta
rians
in G
hana
and
oth
er M
ano
Rive
r Uni
on c
ount
ries a
nd to
see
lega
l im
plem
enta
tion
of c
omm
unity
righ
ts in
ne
ighb
orin
g co
untr
ies a
nd m
ore
know
ledg
e sh
arin
g w
ith R
RI
Gre
en A
dvoc
ates
N
GO C
oalit
ion
(SDI
, IU
CN, R
RG)
$3
0,00
0
Deve
lop
a co
aliti
on-w
ide
dial
ogue
with
land
co
mm
issio
n ba
sed
on c
urre
nt si
tuat
ion
with
la
nd g
rabs
, for
est-
REDD
dia
logu
e, a
nd
emer
ging
stra
tegy
for l
and
right
s/te
nure
re
cogn
ition
; De
velo
p an
adv
ocac
y pl
an w
ith a
ll co
untr
y co
llabo
rato
rs to
laun
ch n
atio
nally
, usin
g na
tiona
l-lev
el st
akeh
olde
r wor
ksho
ps
Stoc
ktak
ing
stud
ies o
n sh
iftin
g cu
ltiva
tion,
RE
DD a
nd c
limat
e ch
ange
to e
stab
lish
a pl
atfo
rm fo
r loc
al c
omm
unity
/CSO
in
terv
entio
n an
d pa
rtic
ipat
ion
in
REDD
/clim
ate
chan
ge.
The
coal
ition
has
bee
n or
gani
zing
mul
ti-st
akeh
olde
r dia
logu
es o
n iss
ues r
elat
ed to
the
appr
oval
and
impl
emen
tatio
n of
the
CRL.
In
the
face
of i
ncre
asin
g la
nd p
ress
ures
from
pla
ntat
ions
, m
inin
g et
c. c
oalti
on p
lans
to e
ngag
e la
nd
com
miss
ion
to c
olla
bora
te in
an
info
rmed
dia
logu
e on
thes
e iss
ues
Raise
aw
aren
ess o
n RE
DD in
con
junc
tion
with
land
an
d fo
rest
dia
logu
e, e
nabl
ing
dive
rse
stak
ehol
ders
to
und
erst
and
the
pote
ntia
l neg
ativ
e im
plic
atio
ns
for c
omm
unity
righ
ts:
Hire
a c
onsu
ltant
to ta
ke st
ock
of R
EDD
and
clim
ate
chan
ge d
evel
opm
ent i
n Li
beria
, inc
ludi
ng a
sc
opin
g st
udy
on c
limat
e ch
ange
act
ors,
driv
ers,
pr
ofile
and
cur
rent
tren
ds.
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes a
nd
IUCN
(SDI
, RRG
) Gr
een
Advo
cate
s (SD
I, IU
CN, F
CI)
$5
0,00
0
Com
mun
ity R
ight
s Law
Pha
se II
I:
• Tw
o co
mm
unity
dia
logu
es a
nd tw
o le
gisla
tive
roun
d ta
ble
disc
ussio
ns fo
r law
m
aker
s, lo
cal c
omm
unity
lead
ers a
nd c
ivil
soci
ety
lead
ers
• O
ne re
gion
al c
onsu
ltativ
e ou
trea
ch a
nd
expe
rienc
e sh
arin
g to
ur fo
r Lib
eria
n le
gisla
tive
cauc
us
• Tw
o co
nsul
tativ
e fo
ra b
etw
een
law
m
aker
s and
loca
l com
mun
ity p
artic
ipan
ts
• Tw
o co
mm
unity
dia
logu
es a
nd tw
o le
gisla
tive
roun
d ta
ble
disc
ussio
n w
here
law
mak
ers,
lo
cal c
omm
unity
lead
ers a
nd c
ivil
soci
ety
lead
er w
ill sh
are
less
ons a
nd e
xper
ienc
ed
gath
ered
from
regi
onal
exp
erie
nce
shar
ing
tour
s •
One
regi
onal
con
sulta
tive
outr
each
and
ex
perie
nce
shar
ing
tour
wou
ld b
e fa
cilit
ated
so
that
the
Lib
eria
n le
gisla
tive
cauc
us c
ould
vi
sit r
egio
nal a
nd su
b –r
egio
nal b
odie
s (ei
ther
EC
OW
AS, U
EMO
A or
with
par
liam
enta
rians
in
Man
o Ri
ver u
nion
cou
ntrie
s)
• Tw
o co
nsul
tativ
e fo
ra b
etw
een
law
mak
ers
and
loca
l com
mun
ity p
artic
ipan
ts to
faci
litat
e di
rect
Leg
islat
ive
cons
ulta
tion
with
loca
l co
mm
uniti
es to
ena
ble
them
to c
onsu
lt w
ith
thei
r law
mak
ers o
n im
plem
enta
tion
chal
leng
es a
ssoc
iate
d w
ith th
e im
plem
enta
tion
of th
e CR
L an
d co
mm
unity
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes
$30,
000
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issue
s
Cont
inue
par
ticip
ator
y m
appi
ng a
nd c
apac
ity-
build
ing
of G
A an
d CF
DCs t
o de
velo
p co
mm
unity
map
s for
use
in a
dvoc
acy.
This
activ
ity w
ill in
clud
e te
chni
cal c
apac
ity-b
uild
ing
(GIS
-com
mun
ity m
appi
ng tr
aini
ng, a
dditi
onal
eq
uipm
ent)
, str
engt
heni
ng m
onito
ring
capa
city
, di
alog
ues t
o in
trod
uce
chal
leng
es to
com
mun
ity
right
s, u
sing
map
s in
rene
gotia
ting
SAs a
nd a
cas
e st
udy
on c
usto
mar
y rig
hts v
s. st
atut
ory
law
-in
cent
ives
and
disi
ncen
tives
for s
tren
gthe
ning
co
mm
unity
righ
ts
IUCN
will
faci
litat
e bu
t G
reen
Adv
ocat
es w
ill b
e re
spon
sible
for r
unni
ng
of a
ctiv
ity
$4
9,75
0
Trai
ning
com
mun
ities
in p
artic
ipat
ory
tool
s to
form
com
mun
ity fo
rest
ry c
oope
rativ
es:
scop
ing
stud
ies,
iden
tify
targ
et g
roup
s,
anal
ytic
al w
ork
with
targ
et g
roup
s
This
is a
seco
nd p
hase
of a
n ac
tivity
in th
e 20
09
wor
k pr
ogra
m to
bui
ld p
ilot c
omm
unity
cap
acity
fo
r ent
erpr
ises.
SDI
is n
ow w
orki
ng w
ith a
n in
vite
d ex
pert
, Cat
h Lo
ng, a
nd st
artin
g a
new
pha
se o
f thi
s pi
lot i
nitia
tive
SDI
$2
0,40
0
Prin
t and
diss
emin
ate
pit-
saw
ing
hand
book
; co
ntin
ue e
ngag
emen
t in
stee
ring
com
mitt
ee
on la
w, a
nd re
vise
and
impl
emen
t str
ateg
y fo
r ge
ttin
g m
ultip
le st
akeh
olde
rs to
end
orse
new
le
gal f
ram
ewor
k an
d na
tiona
l str
ateg
y;
supp
ort P
it-Sa
wye
r Uni
on to
mai
ntai
n en
gage
men
t and
stre
ngth
en c
apac
ity o
f m
embe
rs to
follo
w th
e ne
w la
w
Pit-
saw
ing
com
mun
ity e
xcha
nges
: in
Libe
ria-
Latin
Am
eric
a to
lear
n an
d sh
are
best
pr
actic
es; M
ano
Rive
r cou
ntrie
s to
visit
M
onta
na to
see
BMPs
for l
ocal
tim
ber
oper
atio
ns
Supp
ort t
o st
ruct
ure
and
deep
en M
ulti-
stak
ehol
der
Dial
ogue
on
pit-
saw
ing
that
cou
ld fi
rst s
uppo
rt
evol
ving
a le
gal f
ram
ewor
k (h
avin
g ac
cess
and
rig
hts t
o fo
rest
lice
nses
, per
mits
and
con
trac
ts) f
or
pit-
saw
ing
incl
udin
g Se
cret
aria
t and
adm
inist
rativ
e su
ppor
t Th
e re
gula
tion
of p
itsaw
ing
is cu
rren
tly b
eing
dr
afte
d an
d di
scus
sed
but i
n th
e ab
senc
e of
a g
ood
unde
rsta
ndin
g by
Lib
eria
n st
akeh
olde
rs o
f the
al
tern
ativ
e m
odel
s for
regu
latio
n, su
ch a
s bes
t m
anag
emen
t pra
ctic
es. R
RG p
lans
to o
rgan
ize
thes
e vi
sits t
o pr
ovid
e in
put i
nto
this
draf
ting
proc
ess.
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes
$2
0,00
0 To
be
fund
ed
from
Net
wor
ks/
RRG
glob
al
prog
ram
s
Fore
st D
emoc
racy
Initi
ativ
e, P
hase
II:
• Tw
o lo
cal c
omm
unity
Env
ironm
enta
l Im
pact
Ass
essm
ent (
EIA)
trai
ning
w
orks
hops
•
Repr
int o
f at l
east
500
cop
ies o
f the
EIA
Ac
tion
tool
kit
for l
ocal
com
mun
ities
•
Faci
litat
e th
e pa
rtic
ipat
ion
of a
t lea
st tw
o lo
cal c
omm
unity
lead
ers i
n EI
A re
view
co
nduc
ted
by th
e En
viro
nmen
tal
Key
outc
ome:
Com
mun
ity a
war
enes
s is r
aise
d on
ta
x ob
ligat
ions
, Env
ironm
ent I
mpa
ct A
sses
smen
t (E
IAs)
and
pot
entia
l env
ironm
enta
l im
pact
s if
com
pani
es fa
il to
resp
ect t
heir
EIAs
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes
$5,0
00
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Prot
ectio
n Ag
ency
in M
onro
via
Stre
ngth
enin
g W
omen
Par
ticip
atio
n in
For
est
Gove
rnan
ce a
nd M
anag
emen
t Thr
ough
N
etw
orki
ng a
nd C
apac
ity B
uild
ing.
Th
e go
al o
f thi
s pro
ject
is to
secu
re fo
rmal
re
cogn
ition
of t
he ro
le o
f wom
en in
fore
st
gove
rnan
ce p
roce
sses
and
man
agem
ent
activ
ities
in L
iber
ia.
The
key
activ
ities
that
will
be
unde
rtak
en b
y th
e pr
ojec
t are
-O
rgan
ize a
nd fa
cilit
ate
a w
omen
foru
m o
n la
nd
and
fore
sts e
very
four
mon
ths
- Inc
reas
ing
wom
en p
artic
ipat
ion
in m
eetin
gs a
t th
e lo
cal a
nd n
atio
nal l
evel
s - S
ocia
l mob
iliza
tion
amon
gst w
omen
to p
lay
activ
e ro
les i
n th
e va
rious
CFD
Cs
- Pro
vide
supp
ort t
o ke
y lo
cal w
omen
gro
ups t
o fo
llow
up
on so
me
of th
e ac
tion
poin
ts fr
om th
e w
omen
foru
ms,
loca
l mee
tings
and
CFD
C/
com
mun
ity m
eetin
gs
FCI
(tot
al b
udge
t req
uest
ed
from
con
cept
not
e $8
9,99
0)
$18,
000
$71,
990
Incr
easin
g w
omen
par
ticip
atio
n an
d ow
ners
hip
to la
nd b
y id
entif
ying
the
prob
lem
s th
ey fa
ce.
This
proj
ect w
ill c
ondu
ct a
nat
iona
l sco
ping
st
udy
to e
xam
ine
the
prob
lem
s tha
t lea
d to
th
e m
argi
naliz
atio
n an
d ex
clus
ion
of w
omen
in
the
deci
sion
mak
ing
proc
ess a
bout
fore
st
reso
urce
s and
land
ow
ners
hip
in L
iber
ia; t
he
polic
y an
d le
gal g
aps a
nd b
arrie
rs o
n ge
nder
rig
hts a
nd la
nd a
nd re
sour
ces m
anag
emen
t, as
wel
l as f
ind
solu
tions
to o
verc
ome
them
; br
ing
to li
ght t
he v
oice
s of w
omen
in d
ecisi
on
mak
ing
on la
nd a
nd re
sour
ces m
anag
emen
t.
Key
activ
ities
of t
he p
roje
ct in
clud
e ex
amin
ing
gaps
(s
ituat
iona
l ana
lysis
) with
in th
e la
ws a
nd p
olic
ies
rega
rdin
g fo
rest
reso
urce
s and
land
tenu
re in
Li
beria
. Also
, the
pro
ject
pla
ns to
hol
d va
lidat
ion
mee
tings
/wor
ksho
ps in
iden
tifie
d co
mm
uniti
es/c
ount
ies.
Fin
ding
s fro
m th
ese
wor
ksho
ps w
ould
turn
in a
repo
rt to
be
dist
ribut
ed
amon
g m
ajor
stak
ehol
ders
. Ex
pect
ed o
utco
mes
. The
pro
ject
will
: -P
rovi
de c
lear
ana
lysis
of t
he p
robl
ems f
aced
by
wom
en in
land
ow
ners
hip
and
thei
r par
ticip
atio
n in
de
cisio
n m
akin
g re
latin
g to
nat
ural
reso
urce
s;
- Pro
vide
act
ion
plan
s dev
elop
ed b
y w
omen
to
miti
gate
the
chal
leng
es re
latin
g to
thes
e pr
oble
ms.
; - P
rovi
de st
akeh
olde
rs w
ith fa
ctua
l inf
orm
atio
n on
w
omen
righ
ts to
land
and
thei
r par
ticip
atio
n in
re
sour
ces m
anag
emen
t.
FCI
tota
l bud
get r
eque
sted
fr
om c
once
pt n
ote
$35,
72
2.50
$35,
722
Crea
te a
dat
abas
e of
exi
stin
g gr
oups
, and
an
alys
is of
gap
s and
nee
ds; a
sses
smen
t rep
ort
(circ
ulat
ed a
mon
g lo
cal,
natio
nal a
nd
inte
rnat
iona
l par
tner
s) in
clud
ing
the
deve
lopm
ent o
f tra
inin
g to
ols t
o in
crea
se
wom
en’s
cap
acity
Cond
uct
a na
tiona
l sit
uatio
nal
(gap
) a
naly
sis o
f Li
beria
n la
ws
and
polic
ies
on l
and
and
natu
ral
reso
urce
s; h
old
wor
ksho
ps t
o pr
esen
t an
d di
scus
s th
e an
alys
is
FCI (
SDI,
BAW
ODA
&
CBO
)
$51,
125
Iden
tify
pote
ntia
l wom
en a
nd o
ppor
tuni
ties
for w
omen
’s g
roup
s in
CFEs
and
con
duct
smal
l bu
sines
s and
pro
ject
man
agem
ent t
rain
ing
with
initi
ativ
e m
icro
-lend
ing
linka
ges
Wor
k w
ith w
omen
to id
entif
y sm
all s
cale
eco
nom
ic
activ
ities
to re
duce
pov
erty
FC
I (S
DI, G
reen
Adv
ocat
es)
$3
0,00
0
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
Tota
l Fun
ds R
eque
sted
for L
iber
ia A
ctiv
ities
: $1
68,2
92
$334
,675
Tota
l Fun
ds R
eque
sted
for T
ier 1
Act
iviti
es:
$414
,992
$4
54,4
22
Mali
Draf
t and
impl
emen
t a st
rate
gy fo
r adv
ocac
y w
ith a
rgum
ents
for a
n ef
fect
ive
tran
sfer
of
pow
er to
dec
entr
alize
d bo
dies
and
the
reco
gniti
on o
f com
mun
ity ri
ghts
thro
ugh
loca
l co
nven
tions
to b
e sh
ared
with
gov
ernm
ent
and
loca
l ele
cted
offi
cial
s
This
activ
ity w
ill d
raw
from
the
findi
ngs o
f st
udie
s on
loca
l con
vent
ions
and
dec
entr
aliza
tion
done
in
2009
and
201
0 to
info
rm a
n ad
voca
cy d
ocum
ent t
o re
cogn
ize ri
ghts
and
the
tran
sfer
of p
ower
in
natu
ral r
esou
rce
man
agem
ent t
o lo
cal
colle
ctiv
ities
;
Thes
e ar
gum
ents
will
be
used
to in
fluen
ce d
ecisi
on-
mak
ers a
nd to
dee
pen
the
supp
ort g
aine
d du
ring
the
natio
nal w
orks
hop
on th
e le
gal f
ram
ewor
k of
lo
cal c
onve
ntio
ns o
rgan
ized
by th
e M
inist
ry o
f En
viro
nmen
t and
San
itatio
n in
201
0.;
Inte
rcoo
pera
tion
(Sah
el
Eco)
$1
7,65
9
Part
icip
atio
n as
co-
orga
nize
r at n
atio
nal
wor
ksho
p on
loca
l con
vent
ions
in
Mal
i org
anize
d by
the
gove
rnm
ent;
Draf
ting
of
tool
s ado
pted
for b
enef
icia
ries;
org
anize
a
subr
egio
nal w
orks
hop
to sh
are
tool
s dev
elop
by
RRI
coa
litio
n an
d by
the
gove
rnm
ent w
ith
othe
r Sah
elia
n co
untr
ies
The
outc
omes
from
this
set o
f act
iviti
es w
ill e
nabl
e th
e im
plem
enta
tion
of lo
cal c
onve
ntio
ns, a
dapt
ed
and
acce
pted
by
all
NRM
sta
keho
lder
s. T
he l
ocal
co
nven
tions
will
allo
w p
oor
rura
l co
mm
uniti
es t
o cl
aim
the
ir rig
hts
with
in t
he f
ram
ewor
k of
nat
ural
re
sour
ce
man
agem
ent
in
agro
fore
stry
pa
rks,
fo
rest
s,
agro
fore
sts
and
mor
e sp
ecifi
cally
th
eir
terr
itorie
s. T
he s
ubre
gion
al w
orks
hop
will
allo
w
thes
e ou
tcom
es to
be
met
in M
ali a
nd in
the
Sahe
l m
ore
gene
rally
.
ICRA
F (R
RI-M
ali
coal
ition
) $4
0,00
0 $2
6,00
0
Info
rm a
nd e
ngag
e w
ith g
over
nmen
t div
ision
s (D
NCT
, HCC
, CAD
D, e
lect
ed o
ffici
als/
polic
y m
aker
s (AM
M),
and
advo
cate
s (CN
OP)
on
loca
l con
vent
ions
, dec
entr
aliza
tion,
and
the
new
ly a
dopt
ed fo
rest
law
This
activ
ity w
ill se
rve
to a
dvan
ce a
dvoc
acy
for
the
pow
er tr
ansf
er p
roce
ss in
fore
st m
anag
emen
t; th
e m
ajor
act
iviti
es w
ill in
volv
e: S
tudy
/pro
posa
l, dr
aft a
pro
gram
for a
dvoc
acy,
Coo
rdin
atio
n an
d pr
ogra
mm
ing
of a
ctiv
ities
, and
coo
rdin
atio
n m
eetin
gs w
ith d
iffer
ent a
ctor
s;
In 2
011
the
expe
cted
out
com
es to
be
achi
eved
th
roug
h th
ese
activ
ities
are
: -t
he H
igh
Coun
cil o
f Ter
ritor
ial C
olle
ctiv
ities
(HCC
T)
will
dec
lare
its e
ngag
emen
t with
the
tran
sfer
po
wer
pro
cess
; - t
he su
ppor
t uni
t for
dec
entr
aliza
tion
at th
e M
inist
ry o
f Env
ironm
ent a
nd S
anita
tion/
CADD
is
calle
d up
on to
eng
age
on le
gal t
exts
for t
he p
ower
tr
ansf
er;
- leg
al te
xts t
o im
plem
ent d
ecen
tral
izatio
n an
d th
e tr
ansf
er o
f pow
er a
re a
dopt
ed.
Inte
rcoo
pera
tion
(Sah
el
Eco,
coa
litio
n m
embe
rs)
$50,
000
$6,4
25
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
This
activ
ity is
des
igne
d to
ach
ieve
the
2011
ou
tcom
e of
dra
ftin
g le
gisla
tive
and
regu
lato
ry
text
s on
man
agin
g pr
otec
ted
tree
s in
peas
ant
land
and
it w
ill d
raw
from
the
2010
act
ivity
on
agro
fore
stry
and
dec
entr
aliza
tion
for a
re
cogn
ition
of p
easa
nts r
ight
s
Part
icip
atio
n in
pla
nnin
g of
CAD
D ac
tions
on
de
cent
raliz
atio
n in
201
1 to
influ
ence
the
proc
ess;
Dr
aft a
tech
nica
l not
e ba
sed
on a
crit
ical
st
udy
com
miss
ione
d to
revi
ew h
ow c
omm
unity
rig
hts
is ta
ken
into
acc
ount
in th
e ne
w fo
rest
ry la
w
adop
ted
in Ju
ly 2
010;
En
cour
age
the
choi
ce o
f a fo
cal p
oint
at t
he
HCC
to
deal
with
pea
sant
s rig
hts i
n re
latio
n to
ag
rofo
rest
ry
and
dece
ntra
lizat
ion;
St
reng
then
stra
tegi
c al
lianc
es a
t the
Nat
iona
l As
sem
bly;
Ex
chan
ges v
isits
in N
iger
fore
st, l
and,
and
ag
ricul
ture
s div
ision
s to
lear
n fr
om th
eir b
est
prac
tices
in re
cogn
izing
pea
sant
s rig
hts
(t
his s
peci
fic a
ctiv
ity w
ill b
e fu
nded
from
the
RRI g
loba
l net
wor
ks p
rogr
am)
Sahe
l Eco
(In
terc
oope
ratio
n,
ICRA
F)
$40,
000
$2,5
00
Supp
ort w
omen
of F
NAF
ER (N
atio
nal
Fede
ratio
n of
Rur
al W
omen
) and
thei
r alli
es in
th
e dr
aftin
g an
d im
plem
enta
tion
of a
n ad
voca
cy p
lan
for i
nclu
ding
gen
der i
n la
nd/f
ores
t ten
ure
and
agric
ultu
re le
gisla
tions
, la
ws,
and
regu
latio
ns
This
activ
ity w
ill in
clud
e a
plan
ning
mee
ting
with
pa
rtic
ipan
ts in
FN
AFER
’s a
dvoc
acy
mov
emen
t. Ke
y co
mpo
nent
s of t
his a
ctiv
ity:
-Sup
port
to th
e dr
aftin
g of
an
advo
cacy
stra
tegy
; - M
edia
diff
usio
n on
gen
der,
right
s and
tenu
re;
- Rec
omm
enda
tions
from
the
stud
y on
gen
der,
right
s and
tenu
re to
the
Min
istrie
s of e
nviro
nmen
t, ag
ricul
ture
, lan
d, a
nd w
omen
’s a
ffairs
for a
re
cogn
ition
of w
omen
’s te
nure
righ
ts in
legi
slatio
n an
d re
gula
tions
; Ta
ke st
ock
of d
iffer
ent e
xper
ienc
es a
nd b
est
prac
tices
for s
ecur
ing
land
righ
ts in
man
agem
ent
zone
s and
wor
ksho
p to
shar
e re
sults
IUCN
(coa
litio
n m
embe
rs)
$24,
500
Org
anize
regi
onal
wor
ksho
p on
Pas
tora
lism
an
d te
nure
righ
ts (2
010
activ
ity)
The
wor
ksho
p on
pas
tora
lists
’ rig
hts w
ill p
rese
nt
the
findi
ngs f
rom
the
2010
stud
y on
pas
tora
lism
, an
d w
ill p
rodu
ce c
oncr
ete
reco
mm
enda
tions
for
deci
sion
mak
ers a
nd o
ther
act
ors i
nvol
ved
in
natu
ral r
esou
rce
man
agem
ent f
or a
bet
ter
reco
gniti
on o
f pas
tora
list r
ight
s
IUCN
(Sah
el E
co,
Inte
rcoo
pera
tion,
U
EMO
A)
$20,
000
(NB:
$20
,000
al
read
y co
ntra
cted
from
20
10 fu
ndin
g)
$10,
000
Tota
l Fun
ds R
eque
sted
for M
ali A
ctiv
ities
: $1
92,1
59
$44,
925
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
Burkina Faso
Carr
y ou
t a d
isagg
rega
ted
anal
ysis
of g
ende
r in
sele
cted
NTF
Ps’ v
alue
cha
ins
The
pilo
t cas
e st
udy
will
bui
ld o
n w
ork
done
in 2
010
to id
entif
y cu
rren
t kno
wle
dge,
gap
s and
con
stra
ints
to
man
agem
ent a
nd li
velih
ood
bene
fits f
rom
se
lect
ed N
TFPs
. The
stud
y ap
proa
ch w
ill c
ompr
ise
the
follo
win
g:
• N
TFPs
and
site
s sel
ecte
d du
ring
the
first
ph
ase
of th
e st
udy
in 2
010
will
be
mai
ntai
ned
• Ca
tego
rizat
ion
of a
ctor
s with
in e
ach
valu
e ch
ain
as a
func
tion
of ro
les,
gen
der,
and
tenu
re
stat
us
• An
alys
is of
inst
itutio
nal,
envi
ronm
enta
l an
d so
cio-
econ
omic
con
text
affe
ctin
g m
anag
emen
t and
equ
ity in
reve
nue
dist
ribut
ion
with
in e
ach
valu
e ch
ain
• M
appi
ng o
f res
ourc
e an
d m
onet
ary
flow
s O
utpu
ts w
ill b
asic
ally
com
prise
a v
alue
cha
in re
port
, on
e st
uden
t the
sis a
nd a
pol
icy
brie
fing
note
.
CIFO
R (IU
CN, U
nive
rsity
of
Oua
gado
ugou
, N
atio
nal N
TFPs
as
soci
atio
n)
$2
5,00
0 (t
otal
ask
is fo
r $5
1,00
0 an
d it
invo
lves
oth
er
inst
itutio
ns;
RRI w
ould
like
to
par
ticip
ate
in h
alf o
f the
bu
dget
and
the
othe
r in
stitu
tions
will
ta
ke c
are
of
the
rest
; fu
ndin
g m
ight
co
me
from
AT
EMs a
fter
fu
ndra
ising
)
Copy
and
dist
ribut
e th
e ge
nder
-sen
sitiv
e dr
aftin
g gu
ide
for t
he r
ural
land
cha
rter
and
ex
tra
book
let o
n dr
aftin
g th
e PC
D an
d PR
D Pr
oduc
e an
d br
oadc
ast a
radi
o sh
ow o
n th
e co
nten
ts o
f the
dra
ftin
g gu
ide
for t
he ru
ral
land
cha
rter
to in
clud
e ge
nder
aw
aren
ess
-Dra
ft a
nd d
issem
inat
e a
gend
er te
nure
gui
de to
in
form
the
rura
l lan
d ch
arte
r and
cre
ate
awar
enes
s am
ong
rura
l far
mer
s org
aniza
tions
; - c
ontin
ue th
e id
entif
icat
ion
of te
nure
cha
mpi
ons
and
crea
te a
nat
iona
l dat
abas
e;
- org
anize
a g
ener
al a
ssem
bly
to p
ut in
pla
ce th
e ge
nder
pla
tfor
m;
- Dra
ft T
oRs a
nd c
omm
issio
n a
scop
ing
and
anal
ytic
al st
udy
for e
stab
lishi
ng a
gen
der w
atch
dog
grou
p fo
r CSO
s in
Burk
ina
Faso
;
IUCN
(f
acili
tatio
n fo
r ch
ampi
ons)
C
IFO
R
$12,
000
Cont
inue
iden
tifyi
ng c
ham
pion
s and
est
ablis
h a
data
base
O
rgan
ize th
e fo
undi
ng g
ener
al a
ssem
bly
for
the
plat
form
W
orks
hop
to sh
are
the
findi
ngs o
f the
dra
ft
stud
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RRI Africa: Work Program 2011-2012
IV. Tier 1 Country - Cameroon 4.1 RRI Strategy in Cameroon Cameroon is one of the nine most forested countries in Africa and in the top thirty forested countries worldwide. The forest area is estimated as 3.7 million hectares representing 30% of the permanent forest (State owned forest) and 8% of the national territory (MINEF/GFW/WRI, 2007), including extensive protected area set asides. Forests classified under national domains (forêts domaniales) are permanent forest estates, with state claimed sovereignty and ownership. Other types of forests include agro-industrial and mineral zones. Based on the available information on Cameroon in 2008 (From Exclusion to Ownership), area of forest land administered by government is 95%; area of forest land designated for and owned by communities is 5%; and area of forest land under industrial concession (Unités Forestières Aménagées- UFA) is 30%. Issues and problems in Cameroonian forest and land tenure are characterized primarily within seven themes:
1. Coexistence of statutory and unrecognized customary , and the exclusive nature of statutory tenure
2. Lack of harmonization of forestry and land laws 3. Democratic participation of grassroots actors (local communities) in decision-making 4. Indigenous Peoples 5. Women and gender 6. Small and Medium Community Forest Enterprises 7. International discourses and agendas: climate change, REDD, FLEGT, VPA
Since the colonial era (by turns German, British and French), customary tenure in Cameroon has been superseded by statutory (state written) laws borrowed from the Western legal tradition, and by modern tenure systems and forest estates legislation that grant ownership of land and forests to the State (Oyono 2005). Since independence, the Cameroonian State has maintained the public estates system and the State’s position as the owner of lands and forests. Today, these two systems of land and forest access (the customary system and the “modern” system) are often at odds, as one is not recognized by the other creating a situation intensified by many misunderstandings, clashes and conflicts over specific rights and over types of rights. Forest reserves, concessions, national parks and all protected areas today fall within the public/permanent estates, which include (among other things) State forests. Cameroon’s forestry law recognizes usage rights for communities (in a very limited sense) in the permanent State estates, which really demonstrates the supremacy of modern/”positive” law in Cameroon’s forest legislation. The State views community rights as usage and benefit/profit rights, rather than ownership rights, thereby weakening community hold on these rights. The official declaration of the State as owner of lands and forest gives the forest administration zoning authority over resources as well, regardless of the complexity and diversity of rights. However, the multiplicity of customary rights, although important in terms of recognizing a localized and contextual cultural diversity, also weakens the weight of customary rights in national forest policy. Although the forestry law references the land law in specific articles, there remains a serious lack of consideration between the two sets of laws. Despite the wide range of forest reforms underway, and the 1995 forest law currently being reviewed, reform of the land law has been stagnant and almost a taboo subject. In reality, forestry reforms have little impact without concomitant land reforms. Forest and land issues are treated bureaucratically as two sectors, when in reality they are strongly linked and the absence of coordination is a major obstacle to tenure reform. For effective recognition of customary tenure rights, there is a need to ensure better harmonization and coordination between these two sectors. A platform for coordination and coherence is currently being set up by the government but is not fully operational. The institutionalization of a dialogue platform among ministries, with buy-in from the Prime Minister would be a key step. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) requires that, after three years, the State must commit to reform the entire legal framework of the forest sector. As a result, different sectors must also undergo reforms (mining, land, forestry, agriculture, etc.). However, there is a risk that VPA signature (signed in 2010), will not be respected despite the three-year delay assigned to
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signatory countries. If we take the example of Ghana, one of the first African countries to adopt VPA, these types of accords may never be ratified. While the State restricts communities’ land usage, it actively promotes non-customary land use such as plantations, mines, concessions and protected areas. At the same time, Conservation organizations contribute to the misappropriation of community lands due to the priority given to public conservation/biodiversity over community rights. Neither the government, with its industrial focus on exports, nor the international private and donor sectors support the growth of small and medium community forest enterprises (SMCFE), an alternative tenure model contributing more to livelihoods and the local economy. SMCFEs are not included in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) officially recognized by the government. In addition, SMEs are often subjected to heavy administrative and regulatory burdens and are taxed according to commercial tax systems and laws. Export certification for non-timber forest products (NTFP) is another barrier to accessing international markets. The lack of validation of local knowledge regarding forest resources (traditional medicine, non-timber forest products) is being further reinforced with REDD mechanisms that give priority to a value chain based on carbon credit concessions, rather than the potential of forest resources such as NTFP. Export led industry is still the favored model for economic development, even though all evidence points to the fact that it benefits a small group of actors and undermines the potential of domestic markets to contribute to local livelihoods. Although environmental discourse has changed over time, the forest management models have not. State forest land sovereignty is not questioned by international donors (exp: the European Union). In Cameroon, the REDD discourse is above the heads of principal stakeholders, including the State, NGOs, international organizations, and universities. RRI partners and collaborators have engaged to influence the REDD process and issues and opportunities regarding rights and tenure through dialogues established by conservation organizations (such as CI, WCS, WWF), dialogue implementing the Oslo Partnership Accords, and engaging in major platforms like the Regional Congo Basin REDD and the National Observatory on Climate Change. REDD targets are potentially the Indigenous People’s areas such as those subsumed within State protected area designations, including Campo, Mbamem Djerem, Ngolya-Mitome with threats for rights: WCS has no explicit policy regarding IP’s; and WWF has a good policy but uneven implementation. Access rights and benefit sharing has also been problematic. Communities, those most vulnerable to the impacts of carbon sales in their forests, remain largely unaware of the ins and outs of the mechanism and/or the Cameroonian government’s current negotiations. One major challenge to democratic participation of grassroots actors (local communities) and civil society in decision-making is representation in national platforms, which are, for the most part, occupied by donors and the international community operating in the country (for example, CCPM, the working group in the revision of the 1994 forestry law). The modalities of democratic participation are poorly defined and those that do exist are not operational. The State capitalizes on civil society’s “disorganization” i.e. the difficulty of bringing the diverse voices of a multi-ethnic and diverse citizen base to a common agenda, in order to make decisions in its absence. Generally, there is no engagement in national decision-making of more than a narrow base of “approved” civil society. Although there are opportunities/platforms for recognizing IP rights (MINFOF and MINAS began drafting a law on IPs in March 2010), women encounter many problems in accessing decision making and participating in land and forest control and ownership, despite their primary role in forest resource management. The Cameroonian REDD negotiation delegation includes no women, there are no specifics on women’s rights in COMIFAC’s proposal on climate change, and there is no theme on “women and gender” in the working group for reforming the 1994 Forestry Law. In both customary systems and modern law, tenure rights for women remain unrecognized; this persistent invisibility is the root of the lack of recognition of women’s tenure rights in legal and policy reforms. Women are leaders in income-generating activities such as the exploitation of non-timber forest products (NTFP), nevertheless, despite their contribution to local economies, efforts to support women’s roles in community forest management remain woefully inadequate. Heavy administrative burdens surrounding permits for NTFP exploitation, and the forestry laws regarding NTFP exploitation, continue to restrict the development of women-run forest enterprises.
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Although threats to forest tenure are major in Cameroon, there is political will (although still very limited) and opportunities for RRI to promote the recognition of tenure rights in Cameroon forest and land policy reform processes in the upcoming years. From 1994/95 the Cameroonian government has undertaken policy reform processes and actions to increase areas for use by communities and indigenous groups. The following main actions have been taken:
- Decentralization: institutional willingness to promote community forests and communal forest designated council forests managed for community benefits;
- The 2001 order 0518/MINEF/CAB specifies additional community rights to acquire community forests (Government of Cameroon, 2001). The order demonstrates a government commitment to the community forest program and establishes a new regulatory framework (RRI, 2008);
- Increase in the area of land designated for and owned by communities and indigenous people from 0.00 Mha in 2002 to 1.14 Mha in 2008 (From Exclusion to Ownership);
- 3.8 Mha of communal forests as of 2006 (NINFOF/GFW/WRI, 2007, Interactive Forestry Atlas for Cameroon, version 2.0- An overview).
- Drafting and adoption of community forest procedure textbook (Manuel de Procédures des forets communautaires) in 2008;
- Review of the 1994 forest law started in March 2009; and - Adoption of VPA/ FLEGT for a better forest governance
Even though political will is still limited, there is new political space and openness and a growing organization of civil society as a voice for change:
- the National Land and Forest Policy reforms, mainly the review of the 1994 forest law, provide political space that can be advanced;
- the FLEGT process: (multi- actor facilitation, implementation monitoring, and advocacy) can contribute to this;
- COMIFAC/CEFDHAC Central Africa forest law harmonization process brings in new political voices and advocacy spaces;
- There is a growing capacity and savvy influence of community organizations and local NGOs (e.g. RRI collaborators: CED and Cameroon Ecology) which RRI can help to foster;
- MINFOF has committed to implement the Declaration of the international conference on tenure, governance and enterprise, held in Yaoundé in May 2009;
- RRI partners in Cameroon are capable and have good political and research connections; and - Government involvement in international REDD processes creates new opportunities to press for
a tenure and rights agenda.
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RRI Africa: Work Program 2011-2012
V. Liberia Strategy 5.1 RRI Strategy in Liberia The Liz Alden Wily publication for SDI-FERN in 2007, So Who Owns the Forest? An investigation into forest ownership and customary land rights in Liberia provided a good overview of Liberian history and the complexity of forest ownership and management. Although one of Africa’s smaller countries in area and population, Liberia is famous for being one of the wettest countries in Africa (mean of 4,650 mm annually), for containing more than half of the rich Upper Guinean tropical forest left in West Africa (4.4 million ha of ca 8 million ha) and for its additional mineral wealth (iron ore, gold, diamonds, manganese and silica). Liberia is also known for being the home of the largest rubber plantation in the world (Firestone’s one million acres) and for 10% of its area being under long lease to still partly foreign-owned agri-business. Even communities with formal title to customary properties, almost all substantially forested, have had no ownership rights to the trees on their land in the absence of implementation of a Community Rights Law (CRL) now modifying the Forest and Land sector legislation. Until the CRL was passed the Forest law was explicit that the people on those lands could not control government-approved logging on their lands. Their consent was not legally required for leasing of their lands by industry, for up to 35 years for logging or salvage, and the new rights are not yet being enforced. (Alden Wily, 2007) The major challenges in recognizing tenure rights in Liberia are:
- The implementation of the Community Rights Law (CRL) approved and signed in 2009 - Rationalizing industrial and commercial concessions with the new law and land reform process - How to make REDD pro-poor and pro-tenure right? - Equitable land reform - Enabling Small and Medium Scale Enterprises - Gender and women’s tenure rights
On October 16, 2009, the “Act to establish the Community Rights Law of 2009 with respect to forest lands” was approved and signed by the President of Liberia. While this CRL marks a new era in citizen-friendly forest management, stating that “all forest resources on community forest lands are owned by local communities who must have free, prior and informed consent regarding all decisions and activities regarding their lands”, it has created controversies between the legislators, the Forest Development Authority (FDA), and the civil society who qualifies the final version of the CRL that passed as an “Anti-Community Rights Law”. The main critiques from civil society around the new CRL at its adoption, which gives more priority to statutory rights than customary rights, are:
• Lack of discussions about the CRL among the legislators before adoption; • Limited civil society engagement with the recently established Land Commission (so far only SDI
and Green Advocates are following the process closely); community participation is limited in national decision-making processes, despite nationwide consultations.
• Communities’ expectations are not being met; • International donor and conservation organizations are not rethinking their approaches and
strategies to be consistent with the changed rights framework (including that in the CRL) in order to maintain good relations with the FDA towards their various goals and programs;
• FPIC is not being applied for forest or other commercial concessions as stipulated in the new law; and
• The final version of the CRL reduced community benefit shares to 5% of concession profits which is not acceptable to civil society, nor is a pathway clear for communities to take on their own management initiatives as an alternative arrangement.
The CRL has not been adequately regulated nor disseminated to the communities by the FDA. However, there are strategies proposed by civil society organizations, parliamentarians, and communities and emerging opportunities to better develop social agreements and thereby recognize community rights. One response has been the establishment of an informal Community Rights Caucus of Parliamentarians advocating for the advancement of community rights. This is the first time there has been a thematic caucus in the legislature and it has empowered forward thinking Parliamentarians as well as provided a
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basis for broadening political support for implementing reforms. The CRL has also increased the importance of participatory community rights mapping as a tool for identifying community lands and associated rights. In order for communities to realize the benefits of the new law, they must establish a governance and management system, formulate rules, agree and clarify boundaries, and develop a forest management plan. A first step in accomplishing these tasks is mapping to clarify and demonstrate rights. Community mapping is less advanced in Liberia than in Cameroon but has increasing demand and relevance, and technical capacity-building of local actors is key. This is particularly critical in light of the increase in land grabs and allocation of new area to foreign businesses for logging, plantation development, and mining, and the tendency of government and donors to precondition rights mapping with top-down, land use zoning. In 2008 and 2009, the Liberian government issued seven Forest Management Contracts, covering more than one million hectares, and six Timber Sale Contracts, covering 30,000 hectares. This makes a combined total of 1,037,266 hectares of forest or a third of the country’s forests (Liberia’s forest estate is estimated to be 4.39 million hectares). There are serious technical flaws in the FDA forest use zoning process underlying identification of concessions areas and flaws and illegalities in the actual bidding and contract allocation processes (SDI, 2010). Yet, as of July 2009, a total of 7 Forestry Management Concessions (FMCs) were formally designated, and 3 awarded as of 2009 (Phil Sherman, 2009). More than one million hectares of Liberia’s forest are now under concessions held of the US$36 million projected to be derived from the sector in the 2009/10 fiscal year, less than US$4 million has been realized. The millions of dollars in revenue and thousands of jobs that were projected by the FDA are not forthcoming. Communities that are now ready to invest their 30% of logging revenues, as promised in the forestry law, have not received even a fraction of their share of timber revenue. Logging companies now owe affected communities a combined total of approximately US$3 million: all because the implementation of reform measures has been compromised and undermined by entrenched and vested interests of powerful individuals both in the government and outside it (SDI, January 2010) Despite the analysis and research on the failure of industrial concessions in Liberia, the government continues to act according to the old and mainstream mindset that revenue generation is best achieved through conventional industry. The one million hectares currently under concessions narrows the space in which communities are supposed to be operating for farming activities; some communities are even within the boundaries of the logging areas. While civil society engages and continues to point out failures and unmet expectations, there is no good policy document on what the alternatives could be. Despite evidence to contrary, policy makers continue to use capacity figures quoted in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) to shape planning of national budgets and of logging concession areas. In addition, Forest Development Authority (FDA) and concessionaires publish limited information on logging agreements and their compliance. All social agreements are currently being revisited by government with civil society input because of irregularities in their contents. A process has been put in place to renegotiate all agreements, but it is only being initiated since September 2010. Concessions have been granted and activated as well with no prior Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA), despite an advanced FLEGT process with the EU. Land for plantations overlap logging activities, which could be a further source for conflicts. Land grabs are increasing--agribusiness is negotiating with the government, even seeking carbon rights, without the government’s understanding of the implications and lack of awareness of what is being given out. Land grabs and occupation of customary lands by returning refugees are chaotically carving up the country, without a process for ordering action. Customary rights and practices are questioned because of fear of elite dominance, a prejudice against traditional agro-forestry management systems, and overlapping claims, with statutory -deeds still prevailing over customary rights, but increasingly questioned by social movements. Now that the land commission has been established and minimum funding for its operations secured, RRI has begun engagement with the land commission (Bill adopted by the Legislature in July 23, 2009 providing civil society inputs on the land and forest and CRL linkages and options. The Land commission already faces a complex set of issues, similar to the stumbling blocks already faced in the CRL process. A major challenge of the land tenure reform is to prevent customary rights from being overridden in declaring statutory rights. Civil society is aware of the need to be careful going forward; if all Parties’ concerns are not carefully weighed, one set of rights will be lost in seeking to confirm others.
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The Climate Change and REDD discourse and mechanisms has introduced a new level of complexity as well as increasing the stakes for government, communities and private sector, all hoping to qualify for new finance to manage natural resources and reduce emissions related to forests and agriculture. The REDD debate in Liberia (like in many other African countries) is shaped by outsiders; international agencies do not agree on approaches and private sector is positioning itself in the wings. Government and policy-makers are not clear on whether to focus on fund mechanisms or enable development of carbon markets. The four new Forest Management Contracts (FMCs) were passed in 2010 due to the external momentum on REDD, without major actors knowing the real potential funding from REDD. Because logging revenues are tied to protected areas management funding in the Forest Law, conservation agencies push for consolidation and expansion of protected areas in tandem with FDA-controlled industrial concessions. Private investors have already been taken to court over behind the scenes carbon deals and agricultural concessionaires initially convinced the IMCC to approve an agreement ceding unvalued carbon rights as well as land for planting. Traditional systems of slash-and-burn agriculture are under attack without firm analysis of land, income, livelihood or social impacts, or serious analysis of alternatives. There is a proliferation of new institutional structures and actors, complicating community and civil society participation in decision-making. In 2011, RRI collaborators in Liberia will be looking more critically at how REDD is playing out in Liberia and more closely at the funding from the REDD, at the conditions and processes of the funding, before it is too late to influence the debate. Their main goal is making REDD pro-poor and rights-based, and getting the forest governance discussion into the REDD debate. Whatever climate change policy is developed in Liberia, it should be consistent with Liberian rights, tenure goals and legal framework. Pit-sawing is a vital sector in Liberia, providing the main source of sawn wood to the domestic market and the reconstruction effort, as well as creating steady employment for local people. Its potential role in providing long-term income streams and resources to forest communities makes it a key part of post-war reconstruction and economic development. A joint focus on capacity-building for pit-sawyers and advocacy for their legal recognition has produced favorable results, and in 2010 the Secretariat of the VPA extended an invitation to the leadership of the Chainsaw Union to participate in the VPA process. The invitation to participate in deliberations in the early stages of the Liberian VPA is a higher endorsement and recognition of the pit-sawing sector by forest stakeholders in Liberia. Pitsawing is currently under review, with a national study completed building on the Green Advocates research of 2008, and a draft regulation is being developed on the basis of a series of consultations contracted to an NGO consortium led by RICCE. Pitsawyers and Green Advocates are part of the steering committee set up by government for the process, but are concerned about the adequacy of the process, and asking for greater oversight going forward. A regulatory framework is essential to put in place adequate policy and strategies for community forestry and forest enterprise development, and is key to a balanced and equitable agreement for the Liberian FLEGT/VPA. This process is an opportunity for local pit-sawyers to develop formal institutions and gain recognition as a legitimate component of legal, sustainable timber harvesting, and to agree on the relative roles of communities and pitsawyers in forest management and legal permit systems. Women in Liberia are among the primary forest users, especially of non-timber forest products. They farm and collect fuel wood, medicinal plants and other non-timber forest products for domestic use and to generate income. Women’s active role in forest management makes them a major stakeholder in the forestry sector, but they have long been marginalized. At all levels, men have traditionally occupied the political spaces for forest communities, and women’s interests, needs and views have not been adequately represented. This applies to both the community level, where women are excluded from local decision-making meetings, as well as in high-level governmental processes: for example, the recently passed Community Rights Law did not address women’s concerns, in part because of limited political representation from women leading up to the bill. The new Land Commission may serve as a national platform for championing women’s rights and their role in land management, but that remains to be seen. Moving forward, it will be crucial to support women’s involvement in community-level decision-making and build their capacity, and to establish linkages with women’s organizations focused on post-war reconstruction and peace building. The possibilities for women’s enterprises, particularly in NTFPs, are promising for Liberian economic development, as well as for gender equity and livelihoods.
RRI Africa: Work Program 2011-2012
How can communities, marginalized groups, and women represent their own voices? How can RRI facilitate neutral dialogue on scope of issues? RRI collaborators in Liberia (GA, SDI, and FCI) are ensuring a process of mainstreaming views and positions of marginalized communities/voices including mainstreaming the voices of women.
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5.2
Libe
ria -
Plan
ned
Act
iviti
es- 2
010-
2012
Act
ivity
D
etai
ls/D
escr
iptio
n Le
ad (P
artn
ers
and
Col
labo
rato
rs)
Prio
rity
1 Fu
ndin
g Pr
iorit
y 2
Fund
ing
Fund
s C
omm
itted
by
Part
ners
Su
ppor
t fou
r CFD
Cs a
nd h
ost c
omm
uniti
es to
de
velo
p st
rate
gy a
nd a
ctio
ns to
adv
ocat
e fo
r re
nego
tiatio
n of
thei
r SA’
s and
new
con
trac
t sig
ning
s; ra
ise a
war
enes
s of t
ax o
blig
atio
ns,
e.g.
EIA
s, a
nd p
oten
tial e
nviro
nmen
tal i
mpa
cts
if co
mpa
nies
fail
to re
spec
t EIA
s
Wor
k w
ith 4
CFD
Cs in
volv
ed in
the
cam
paig
n fo
r re
nego
tiatio
n an
d us
e th
eir s
ituat
ion
as te
st c
ases
in
the
cam
paig
n fo
r rev
iew
and
rene
gotia
tion.
Thi
s en
gage
men
t will
info
rm w
ork
with
oth
er C
FDCs
al
so in
tere
sted
in p
ursu
ing
revi
ew a
nd
rene
gotia
tion
of th
eir S
As. T
he p
roje
ct w
ill u
se th
e ou
tcom
e of
the
lega
l ana
lysis
as a
bas
is to
dev
elop
a
new
neg
otia
ting
man
date
for C
FDCs
. SDI
will
also
pr
ovid
e on
goin
g fa
cilit
atio
n, te
chni
cal,
lega
l and
fin
anci
al su
ppor
t to
CFDC
s thr
ough
out t
he
nego
tiatio
n pr
oces
s and
will
pro
vide
per
iodi
c up
date
on
the
stat
us o
f com
pani
es’ c
ompl
ianc
e.
SDI (
ACO
RD, L
iber
ia,
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes)
$3
7,57
0
Raise
com
mun
ities
’ aw
aren
ess o
f RED
D an
d pl
anta
tion
deve
lopm
ent a
nd im
pact
s on
com
mun
ity ri
ghts
; nat
iona
l sta
keho
lder
s w
orks
hops
Iden
tify
and
cata
logu
e co
mm
uniti
es w
here
RED
D (c
arbo
n tr
adin
g) p
roje
cts a
nd a
gric
ultu
ral
conc
essio
ns a
re p
lann
ed a
nd b
uild
aw
aren
ess
on
the
pote
ntia
l neg
ativ
e im
pact
s of t
hese
pro
ject
s on
com
mun
ity ri
ghts
via
thre
e co
mm
unity
-leve
l civ
il so
ciet
y w
orks
hops
on
land
and
fore
sts a
nd a
na
tiona
l-lev
el st
akeh
olde
rs’ w
orks
hop
to p
rese
nt
issue
s fro
m th
e fie
ld a
nd to
dev
elop
com
mon
ac
tions
and
nex
t ste
ps
SDI
$22,
000
$31,
410
Info
rmal
cau
cus i
nfor
med
by
inte
rnal
stud
y to
urs a
nd R
RI su
ppor
t at n
atio
nal l
evel
; Fa
cilit
ate
at le
ast 3
con
sulta
tive
outr
each
vi
sits t
o re
gion
al a
nd su
breg
iona
l bod
ies
(ECO
WAS
, UEM
OA,
MRU
) and
with
pa
rliam
enta
rians
in M
ano
Rive
r
Parli
amen
taria
n ca
ucus
pla
ns re
gion
al e
xcha
nge
with
par
liam
enta
rians
in G
hana
and
oth
er M
ano
Rive
r Uni
on c
ount
ries a
nd to
see
lega
l im
plem
enta
tion
of c
omm
unity
righ
ts in
ne
ighb
orin
g co
untr
ies a
nd m
ore
know
ledg
e sh
arin
g w
ith R
RI
Gre
en A
dvoc
ates
N
GO C
oalit
ion
(SDI
, IU
CN, R
RG)
$3
0,00
0
Deve
lop
a co
aliti
on-w
ide
dial
ogue
with
land
co
mm
issio
n ba
sed
on c
urre
nt si
tuat
ion
with
la
nd g
rabs
, for
est-
REDD
dia
logu
e, a
nd
emer
ging
stra
tegy
for l
and
right
s/te
nure
re
cogn
ition
; De
velo
p an
adv
ocac
y pl
an w
ith a
ll co
untr
y co
llabo
rato
rs to
laun
ch n
atio
nally
, usin
g na
tiona
l-lev
el st
akeh
olde
r wor
ksho
ps
Stoc
ktak
ing
stud
ies o
n sh
iftin
g cu
ltiva
tion,
The
coal
ition
has
bee
n or
gani
zing
mul
ti-st
akeh
olde
r dia
logu
es o
n iss
ues r
elat
ed to
the
appr
oval
and
impl
emen
tatio
n of
the
CRL.
In
the
face
of i
ncre
asin
g la
nd p
ress
ures
from
pla
ntat
ions
, m
inin
g et
c. c
oalti
on p
lans
to e
ngag
e la
nd
com
miss
ion
to c
olla
bora
te in
an
info
rmed
dia
logu
e on
thes
e iss
ues
Raise
aw
aren
ess o
n RE
DD in
con
junc
tion
with
land
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes a
nd
IUCN
(SDI
, RRG
) Gr
een
Advo
cate
s (SD
I,
$5
0,00
0
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REDD
and
clim
ate
chan
ge to
est
ablis
h a
plat
form
for l
ocal
com
mun
ity/C
SO
inte
rven
tion
and
part
icip
atio
n in
RE
DD/c
limat
e ch
ange
.
and
fore
st d
ialo
gue,
ena
blin
g di
vers
e st
akeh
olde
rs
to u
nder
stan
d th
e po
tent
ial n
egat
ive
impl
icat
ions
fo
r com
mun
ity ri
ghts
: Hi
re a
con
sulta
nt to
take
stoc
k of
RED
D an
d cl
imat
e ch
ange
dev
elop
men
t in
Libe
ria, i
nclu
ding
a
scop
ing
stud
y on
clim
ate
chan
ge a
ctor
s, d
river
s,
prof
ile a
nd c
urre
nt tr
ends
.
IUCN
, FCI
)
Com
mun
ity R
ight
s Law
Pha
se II
I:
• Tw
o co
mm
unity
dia
logu
es a
nd tw
o le
gisla
tive
roun
d ta
ble
disc
ussio
ns fo
r law
m
aker
s, lo
cal c
omm
unity
lead
ers a
nd c
ivil
soci
ety
lead
ers
• O
ne re
gion
al c
onsu
ltativ
e ou
trea
ch a
nd
expe
rienc
e sh
arin
g to
ur fo
r Lib
eria
n le
gisla
tive
cauc
us
• Tw
o co
nsul
tativ
e fo
ra b
etw
een
law
m
aker
s and
loca
l com
mun
ity p
artic
ipan
ts
• Tw
o co
mm
unity
dia
logu
es a
nd tw
o le
gisla
tive
roun
d ta
ble
disc
ussio
n w
here
law
mak
ers,
lo
cal c
omm
unity
lead
ers a
nd c
ivil
soci
ety
lead
er w
ill sh
are
less
ons a
nd e
xper
ienc
ed
gath
ered
from
regi
onal
exp
erie
nce
shar
ing
tour
s •
One
regi
onal
con
sulta
tive
outr
each
and
ex
perie
nce
shar
ing
tour
wou
ld b
e fa
cilit
ated
so
that
the
Lib
eria
n le
gisla
tive
cauc
us c
ould
vi
sit r
egio
nal a
nd su
b –r
egio
nal b
odie
s (ei
ther
EC
OW
AS, U
EMO
A or
with
par
liam
enta
rians
in
Man
o Ri
ver u
nion
cou
ntrie
s)
• Tw
o co
nsul
tativ
e fo
ra b
etw
een
law
mak
ers
and
loca
l com
mun
ity p
artic
ipan
ts to
faci
litat
e di
rect
Leg
islat
ive
cons
ulta
tion
with
loca
l co
mm
uniti
es to
ena
ble
them
to c
onsu
lt w
ith
thei
r law
mak
ers o
n im
plem
enta
tion
chal
leng
es a
ssoc
iate
d w
ith th
e im
plem
enta
tion
of th
e CR
L an
d co
mm
unity
iss
ues
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes
$30,
000
Cont
inue
par
ticip
ator
y m
appi
ng a
nd c
apac
ity-
build
ing
of G
A an
d CF
DCs t
o de
velo
p co
mm
unity
map
s for
use
in a
dvoc
acy.
This
activ
ity w
ill in
clud
e te
chni
cal c
apac
ity-b
uild
ing
(GIS
-com
mun
ity m
appi
ng tr
aini
ng, a
dditi
onal
eq
uipm
ent)
, str
engt
heni
ng m
onito
ring
capa
city
, di
alog
ues t
o in
trod
uce
chal
leng
es to
com
mun
ity
right
s, u
sing
map
s in
rene
gotia
ting
SAs a
nd a
cas
e st
udy
on c
usto
mar
y rig
hts v
s. st
atut
ory
law
-in
cent
ives
and
disi
ncen
tives
for s
tren
gthe
ning
co
mm
unity
righ
ts
IUCN
will
faci
litat
e bu
t G
reen
Adv
ocat
es w
ill b
e re
spon
sible
for r
unni
ng
of a
ctiv
ity
$4
9,75
0
Trai
ning
com
mun
ities
in p
artic
ipat
ory
tool
s to
form
com
mun
ity fo
rest
ry c
oope
rativ
es:
scop
ing
stud
ies,
iden
tify
targ
et g
roup
s,
anal
ytic
al w
ork
with
targ
et g
roup
s
This
is a
seco
nd p
hase
of a
n ac
tivity
in th
e 20
09
wor
k pr
ogra
m to
bui
ld p
ilot c
omm
unity
cap
acity
fo
r ent
erpr
ises.
SDI
is n
ow w
orki
ng w
ith a
n in
vite
d ex
pert
, Cat
h Lo
ng, a
nd st
artin
g a
new
pha
se o
f thi
s pi
lot i
nitia
tive
SDI
$2
0,40
0
Prin
t and
diss
emin
ate
pit-
saw
ing
hand
book
; Su
ppor
t to
stru
ctur
e an
d de
epen
Mul
ti-st
akeh
olde
r Gr
een
Advo
cate
s $2
0,00
0
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cont
inue
eng
agem
ent i
n st
eerin
g co
mm
ittee
on
law
, and
revi
se a
nd im
plem
ent s
trat
egy
for
gett
ing
mul
tiple
stak
ehol
ders
to e
ndor
se n
ew
lega
l fra
mew
ork
and
natio
nal s
trat
egy;
su
ppor
t Pit-
Saw
yer U
nion
to m
aint
ain
enga
gem
ent a
nd st
reng
then
cap
acity
of
mem
bers
to fo
llow
the
new
law
Pi
t-sa
win
g co
mm
unity
exc
hang
es: i
n Li
beria
-La
tin A
mer
ica
to le
arn
and
shar
e be
st
prac
tices
; Man
o Ri
ver c
ount
ries t
o vi
sit
Mon
tana
to se
e BM
Ps fo
r loc
al ti
mbe
r op
erat
ions
Dial
ogue
on
pit-
saw
ing
that
cou
ld fi
rst s
uppo
rt
evol
ving
a le
gal f
ram
ewor
k (h
avin
g ac
cess
and
rig
hts t
o fo
rest
lice
nses
, per
mits
and
con
trac
ts) f
or
pit-
saw
ing
incl
udin
g Se
cret
aria
t and
adm
inist
rativ
e su
ppor
t Th
e re
gula
tion
of p
itsaw
ing
is cu
rren
tly b
eing
dr
afte
d an
d di
scus
sed
but i
n th
e ab
senc
e of
a g
ood
unde
rsta
ndin
g by
Lib
eria
n st
akeh
olde
rs o
f the
al
tern
ativ
e m
odel
s for
regu
latio
n, su
ch a
s bes
t m
anag
emen
t pra
ctic
es. R
RG p
lans
to o
rgan
ize
thes
e vi
sits t
o pr
ovid
e in
put i
nto
this
draf
ting
proc
ess.
To
be
fund
ed
from
Net
wor
ks/
RRG
glob
al
prog
ram
s
Fore
st D
emoc
racy
Initi
ativ
e, P
hase
II:
• Tw
o lo
cal c
omm
unity
Env
ironm
enta
l Im
pact
Ass
essm
ent (
EIA)
trai
ning
w
orks
hops
•
Repr
int o
f at l
east
500
cop
ies o
f the
EIA
Ac
tion
tool
kit
for l
ocal
com
mun
ities
•
Faci
litat
e th
e pa
rtic
ipat
ion
of a
t lea
st tw
o lo
cal c
omm
unity
lead
ers i
n EI
A re
view
co
nduc
ted
by th
e En
viro
nmen
tal
Prot
ectio
n Ag
ency
in M
onro
via
Key
outc
ome:
Com
mun
ity a
war
enes
s is r
aise
d on
ta
x ob
ligat
ions
, Env
ironm
ent I
mpa
ct A
sses
smen
t (E
IAs)
and
pot
entia
l env
ironm
enta
l im
pact
s if
com
pani
es fa
il to
resp
ect t
heir
EIAs
Gree
n Ad
voca
tes
$5,0
00
Stre
ngth
enin
g W
omen
Par
ticip
atio
n in
For
est
Gove
rnan
ce a
nd M
anag
emen
t Thr
ough
N
etw
orki
ng a
nd C
apac
ity B
uild
ing.
Th
e go
al o
f thi
s pro
ject
is to
secu
re fo
rmal
re
cogn
ition
of t
he ro
le o
f wom
en in
fore
st
gove
rnan
ce p
roce
sses
and
man
agem
ent
activ
ities
in L
iber
ia.
The
key
activ
ities
that
will
be
unde
rtak
en b
y th
e pr
ojec
t are
-O
rgan
ize a
nd fa
cilit
ate
a w
omen
foru
m o
n la
nd
and
fore
sts e
very
four
mon
ths
- Inc
reas
ing
wom
en p
artic
ipat
ion
in m
eetin
gs a
t th
e lo
cal a
nd n
atio
nal l
evel
s - S
ocia
l mob
iliza
tion
amon
gst w
omen
to p
lay
activ
e ro
les i
n th
e va
rious
CFD
Cs
- Pro
vide
supp
ort t
o ke
y lo
cal w
omen
gro
ups t
o fo
llow
up
on so
me
of th
e ac
tion
poin
ts fr
om th
e w
omen
foru
ms,
loca
l mee
tings
and
CFD
C/
com
mun
ity m
eetin
gs
FCI
(tot
al b
udge
t req
uest
ed
from
con
cept
not
e $8
9,99
0)
$18,
000
$71,
990
Incr
easin
g w
omen
par
ticip
atio
n an
d ow
ners
hip
to la
nd b
y id
entif
ying
the
prob
lem
s th
ey fa
ce.
This
proj
ect w
ill c
ondu
ct a
nat
iona
l sco
ping
Key
activ
ities
of t
he p
roje
ct in
clud
e ex
amin
ing
gaps
(s
ituat
iona
l ana
lysis
) with
in th
e la
ws a
nd p
olic
ies
rega
rdin
g fo
rest
reso
urce
s and
land
tenu
re in
Li
beria
. Also
, the
pro
ject
pla
ns to
hol
d va
lidat
ion
FCI
tota
l bud
get r
eque
sted
fr
om c
once
pt n
ote
$35,
72
2.50
$35,
722
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201
1-20
12
stud
y to
exa
min
e th
e pr
oble
ms t
hat l
ead
to
the
mar
gina
lizat
ion
and
excl
usio
n of
wom
en
in th
e de
cisio
n m
akin
g pr
oces
s abo
ut fo
rest
re
sour
ces a
nd la
nd o
wne
rshi
p in
Lib
eria
; the
po
licy
and
lega
l gap
s and
bar
riers
on
gend
er
right
s and
land
and
reso
urce
s man
agem
ent,
as w
ell a
s fin
d so
lutio
ns to
ove
rcom
e th
em;
brin
g to
ligh
t the
voi
ces o
f wom
en in
dec
ision
m
akin
g on
land
and
reso
urce
s man
agem
ent.
mee
tings
/wor
ksho
ps in
iden
tifie
d co
mm
uniti
es/c
ount
ies.
Fin
ding
s fro
m th
ese
wor
ksho
ps w
ould
turn
in a
repo
rt to
be
dist
ribut
ed
amon
g m
ajor
stak
ehol
ders
. Ex
pect
ed o
utco
mes
. The
pro
ject
will
: -P
rovi
de c
lear
ana
lysis
of t
he p
robl
ems f
aced
by
wom
en in
land
ow
ners
hip
and
thei
r par
ticip
atio
n in
de
cisio
n m
akin
g re
latin
g to
nat
ural
reso
urce
s;
- Pro
vide
act
ion
plan
s dev
elop
ed b
y w
omen
to
miti
gate
the
chal
leng
es re
latin
g to
thes
e pr
oble
ms.
; - P
rovi
de st
akeh
olde
rs w
ith fa
ctua
l inf
orm
atio
n on
w
omen
righ
ts to
land
and
thei
r par
ticip
atio
n in
re
sour
ces m
anag
emen
t. Cr
eate
a d
atab
ase
of e
xist
ing
grou
ps, a
nd
anal
ysis
of g
aps a
nd n
eeds
; ass
essm
ent r
epor
t (c
ircul
ated
am
ong
loca
l, na
tiona
l and
in
tern
atio
nal p
artn
ers)
incl
udin
g th
e de
velo
pmen
t of t
rain
ing
tool
s to
incr
ease
w
omen
’s c
apac
ity
Cond
uct
a na
tiona
l sit
uatio
nal
(gap
) a
naly
sis o
f Li
beria
n la
ws
and
polic
ies
on l
and
and
natu
ral
reso
urce
s; h
old
wor
ksho
ps t
o pr
esen
t an
d di
scus
s th
e an
alys
is
FCI (
SDI,
BAW
ODA
&
CBO
)
$51,
125
Iden
tify
pote
ntia
l wom
en a
nd o
ppor
tuni
ties
for w
omen
’s g
roup
s in
CFEs
and
con
duct
smal
l bu
sines
s and
pro
ject
man
agem
ent t
rain
ing
with
initi
ativ
e m
icro
-lend
ing
linka
ges
Wor
k w
ith w
omen
to id
entif
y sm
all s
cale
eco
nom
ic
activ
ities
to re
duce
pov
erty
FC
I (S
DI, G
reen
Adv
ocat
es)
$3
0,00
0
5.3
Libe
ria -
Aud
ienc
es a
nd P
riorit
y O
utco
mes
- 201
1-20
12
A
udie
nces
/Con
stitu
enci
es
Prio
rity
Out
com
es
• G
over
nmen
t (FD
A, L
and
Com
mis
sion
) •
Legi
slat
ors
and
elec
ted
offic
ials
(P
arlia
men
taria
ns/in
form
al c
aucu
s)
• S
ubre
gion
al b
odie
s (E
CO
WAS
, MR
U,
UE
MO
A)
• W
omen
’s g
roup
s an
d ne
twor
ks
• Lo
cal c
omm
uniti
es a
nd in
dige
nous
pe
ople
s an
d C
omm
unity
For
est
Dev
elop
men
t Com
mitt
ees
(CFD
Cs)
•
Pit-
saw
yers
and
oth
er S
MFE
sta
keho
lder
s •
Civ
il so
ciet
y an
d N
GO
coa
litio
n
• C
lear
nat
iona
l stra
tegy
and
adv
ocac
y fo
r the
am
endm
ent o
f the
Com
mun
ity R
ight
s La
w
(CR
L)
• So
cial
con
tract
s in
con
cess
ion
area
s ar
e co
nsis
tent
with
CR
L •
Land
Com
mis
sion
incl
udes
the
CR
L an
d it
in it
s po
licy
• Le
gal r
ecog
nitio
n of
pit-
saw
ing,
with
at l
east
one
per
mit
issu
ed, a
nd fe
w c
omm
unity
gro
ups
orga
nize
and
sta
rt up
sm
all e
nter
pris
es
• M
ore
wom
en’s
gro
ups
rece
ive
train
ing
and
are
bette
r org
aniz
ed to
par
ticip
ate
in fo
rest
go
vern
ance
pro
cess
es a
nd id
entif
y sm
all-s
cale
eco
nom
ic a
ctiv
ities
•
Nat
iona
l pol
icy-
mak
ers,
incl
udin
g Ex
ecut
ive
and
Legi
slat
ive
bran
ches
reco
gniz
e an
d re
spec
t th
e rig
hts
of c
omm
uniti
es in
the
impl
emen
tatio
n of
RED
D p
roje
cts
in L
iber
ia
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
5.4
Stra
tegi
c Pa
rtne
rs, C
olla
bora
tors
and
Rol
es
Part
ner/C
olla
bora
tor
Rol
e FC
I •
Dev
elop
wom
en’s
cap
acity
and
aw
aren
ess
of th
eir r
ight
s an
d ro
les
in fo
rest
man
agem
ent
Gre
en A
dvoc
ates
•
Adv
ise
civi
l soc
iety
coa
litio
n ar
ound
CR
L;
• A
dvoc
ate
for c
omm
unity
righ
ts;
• B
uild
com
mun
ities
’ man
agem
ent a
nd m
appi
ng c
apac
ity
IUC
N
• E
ngag
e go
vern
men
t in
mul
ti-st
akeh
olde
r dia
logu
e;
• E
ngag
e in
pit-
saw
ing
legi
slat
ion
and
regu
latio
n;
• F
LEG
T/V
PA
con
sult
SD
I •
Cap
acity
bui
ldin
g of
com
mun
ities
and
dia
logu
e ar
ound
land
and
fore
st is
sues
with
civ
il so
ciet
y co
aliti
on
VI. B
udge
t- Ti
er 1
Cou
ntrie
s
Cou
ntry
Pr
iorit
y 1
Fund
s R
eque
st
Prio
rity
2 Fu
nds
Req
uest
C
amer
oon
$246
,700
$1
19,7
47
Libe
ria
$168
,292
$3
34,6
75
Tota
l $4
14,9
92
$454
,422
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
VII.
Activ
ities
in T
ier 2
Cou
ntrie
s 8.
1 Pl
anne
d ac
tiviti
es—
2011
C
ount
ry
Act
ivity
D
escr
iptio
n/ D
etai
ls
Lead
(Par
tner
s an
d C
olla
bora
tors
)
Prio
rity
1 Fu
ndin
g Pr
iorit
y 2
Fund
ing
Fund
s C
omm
itted
by
Par
tner
s
Mali
Draf
t and
impl
emen
t a st
rate
gy fo
r ad
voca
cy w
ith a
rgum
ents
for a
n ef
fect
ive
tran
sfer
of p
ower
to d
ecen
tral
ized
bodi
es
and
the
reco
gniti
on o
f com
mun
ity ri
ghts
th
roug
h lo
cal c
onve
ntio
ns to
be
shar
ed
with
gov
ernm
ent a
nd lo
cal e
lect
ed o
ffici
als
This
activ
ity w
ill d
raw
from
the
findi
ngs o
f st
udie
s on
loca
l con
vent
ions
and
dec
entr
aliz
atio
n do
ne in
200
9 an
d 20
10 to
info
rm a
n ad
voca
cy d
ocum
ent t
o re
cogn
ize ri
ghts
and
the
tran
sfer
of p
ower
in n
atur
al
reso
urce
man
agem
ent t
o lo
cal c
olle
ctiv
ities
;
Thes
e ar
gum
ents
will
be
used
to in
fluen
ce d
ecisi
on-
mak
ers a
nd to
dee
pen
the
supp
ort g
aine
d du
ring
the
natio
nal w
orks
hop
on th
e le
gal f
ram
ewor
k of
loca
l co
nven
tions
org
anize
d by
the
Min
istry
of E
nviro
nmen
t an
d Sa
nita
tion
in 2
010.
;
Inte
rcoo
pera
tion
(Sah
el E
co)
$17,
659
Part
icip
atio
n as
co-
orga
nize
r at n
atio
nal
wor
ksho
p on
loca
l con
vent
ions
in
Mal
i org
anize
d by
the
gove
rnm
ent;
Draf
ting
of to
ols a
dopt
ed fo
r ben
efic
iarie
s;
orga
nize
a su
breg
iona
l wor
ksho
p to
shar
e to
ols d
evel
op b
y RR
I coa
litio
n an
d by
the
gove
rnm
ent w
ith o
ther
Sah
elia
n co
untr
ies
The
outc
omes
from
this
set o
f act
iviti
es w
ill e
nabl
e th
e im
plem
enta
tion
of l
ocal
con
vent
ions
, ad
apte
d an
d ac
cept
ed
by
all
NRM
st
akeh
olde
rs.
The
loca
l co
nven
tions
will
allo
w p
oor r
ural
com
mun
ities
to c
laim
th
eir
right
s w
ithin
the
fra
mew
ork
of n
atur
al r
esou
rce
man
agem
ent
in
agro
fore
stry
pa
rks,
fo
rest
s,
agro
fore
sts
and
mor
e sp
ecifi
cally
the
ir te
rrito
ries.
The
su
breg
iona
l wor
ksho
p w
ill a
llow
thes
e ou
tcom
es to
be
met
in M
ali a
nd in
the
Sahe
l mor
e ge
nera
lly.
ICRA
F (R
RI-M
ali
coal
ition
) $4
0,00
0 $2
6,00
0
Info
rm a
nd e
ngag
e w
ith g
over
nmen
t di
visio
ns (D
NCT
, HCC
, CAD
D, e
lect
ed
offic
ials/
polic
y m
aker
s (AM
M),
and
advo
cate
s (CN
OP)
on
loca
l con
vent
ions
, de
cent
raliz
atio
n, a
nd th
e ne
wly
ado
pted
fo
rest
law
This
activ
ity w
ill se
rve
to a
dvan
ce a
dvoc
acy
for
the
pow
er tr
ansf
er p
roce
ss in
fore
st m
anag
emen
t; th
e m
ajor
act
iviti
es w
ill in
volv
e: S
tudy
/pro
posa
l, dr
aft
a pr
ogra
m fo
r adv
ocac
y, C
oord
inat
ion
and
prog
ram
min
g of
act
iviti
es, a
nd c
oord
inat
ion
mee
tings
w
ith d
iffer
ent a
ctor
s;
In 2
011
the
expe
cted
out
com
es to
be
achi
eved
th
roug
h th
ese
activ
ities
are
: -t
he H
igh
Coun
cil o
f Ter
ritor
ial C
olle
ctiv
ities
(HCC
T) w
ill
decl
are
its e
ngag
emen
t with
the
tran
sfer
pow
er
proc
ess;
- t
he su
ppor
t uni
t for
dec
entr
aliza
tion
at th
e M
inist
ry
of E
nviro
nmen
t and
San
itatio
n/CA
DD is
cal
led
upon
to
enga
ge o
n le
gal t
exts
for t
he p
ower
tran
sfer
; - l
egal
text
s to
impl
emen
t dec
entr
aliza
tion
and
the
tran
sfer
of p
ower
are
ado
pted
.
Inte
rcoo
pera
tion
(Sah
el E
co, c
oalit
ion
mem
bers
)
$50,
000
$6,4
25
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
This
activ
ity is
des
igne
d to
ach
ieve
the
2011
out
com
e of
dra
ftin
g le
gisla
tive
and
regu
lato
ry te
xts o
n m
anag
ing
prot
ecte
d tr
ees i
n pe
asan
t lan
d an
d it
will
dra
w fr
om
the
2010
act
ivity
on
agro
fore
stry
and
de
cent
raliz
atio
n fo
r a re
cogn
ition
of
peas
ants
righ
ts
Part
icip
atio
n in
pla
nnin
g of
CAD
D ac
tions
on
de
cent
raliz
atio
n in
201
1 to
influ
ence
the
proc
ess;
Dr
aft a
tech
nica
l not
e ba
sed
on a
crit
ical
stud
y co
mm
issio
ned
to re
view
how
com
mun
ity ri
ghts
is
take
n in
to a
ccou
nt in
the
new
fore
stry
law
ado
pted
in
July
201
0;
Enco
urag
e th
e ch
oice
of a
foca
l poi
nt a
t the
HCC
to
deal
with
pea
sant
s rig
hts i
n re
latio
n to
agr
ofor
estr
y an
d de
cent
raliz
atio
n;
Stre
ngth
en st
rate
gic
allia
nces
at t
he N
atio
nal
Asse
mbl
y;
Exch
ange
s visi
ts in
Nig
er fo
rest
, lan
d, a
nd a
gric
ultu
res
divi
sions
to le
arn
from
thei
r bes
t pra
ctic
es in
re
cogn
izing
pea
sant
s rig
hts
(t
his s
peci
fic a
ctiv
ity w
ill b
e fu
nded
from
the
RRI g
loba
l ne
twor
ks p
rogr
am)
Sahe
l Eco
(In
terc
oope
ratio
n,
ICRA
F)
$40,
000
$2,5
00
Supp
ort w
omen
of F
NAF
ER (N
atio
nal
Fede
ratio
n of
Rur
al W
omen
) and
thei
r al
lies i
n th
e dr
aftin
g an
d im
plem
enta
tion
of
an a
dvoc
acy
plan
for i
nclu
ding
gen
der i
n la
nd/f
ores
t ten
ure
and
agric
ultu
re
legi
slatio
ns, l
aws,
and
regu
latio
ns
This
activ
ity w
ill in
clud
e a
plan
ning
mee
ting
with
pa
rtic
ipan
ts in
FN
AFER
’s a
dvoc
acy
mov
emen
t. Ke
y co
mpo
nent
s of t
his a
ctiv
ity:
-Sup
port
to th
e dr
aftin
g of
an
advo
cacy
stra
tegy
; - M
edia
diff
usio
n on
gen
der,
right
s and
tenu
re;
- Rec
omm
enda
tions
from
the
stud
y on
gen
der,
right
s an
d te
nure
to th
e M
inist
ries o
f env
ironm
ent,
agric
ultu
re, l
and,
and
wom
en’s
affa
irs fo
r a re
cogn
ition
of
wom
en’s
tenu
re ri
ghts
in le
gisl
atio
n an
d re
gula
tions
; Ta
ke st
ock
of d
iffer
ent e
xper
ienc
es a
nd b
est p
ract
ices
fo
r sec
urin
g la
nd ri
ghts
in m
anag
emen
t zon
es a
nd
wor
ksho
p to
shar
e re
sults
IUCN
(coa
litio
n m
embe
rs)
$24,
500
Org
anize
regi
onal
wor
ksho
p on
Pas
tora
lism
an
d te
nure
righ
ts (2
010
activ
ity)
The
wor
ksho
p on
pas
tora
lists
’ rig
hts w
ill p
rese
nt th
e fin
ding
s fro
m th
e 20
10 st
udy
on p
asto
ralis
m, a
nd w
ill
prod
uce
conc
rete
reco
mm
enda
tions
for d
ecisi
on
mak
ers a
nd o
ther
act
ors i
nvol
ved
in n
atur
al re
sour
ce
man
agem
ent f
or a
bet
ter r
ecog
nitio
n of
pas
tora
list
right
s
IUCN
(Sah
el E
co,
Inte
rcoo
pera
tion,
U
EMO
A)
$20,
000
(NB:
$20
,000
al
read
y co
ntra
cted
fr
om 2
010
fund
ing)
$10,
000
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
Burkina Faso Ca
rry
out a
disa
ggre
gate
d an
alys
is of
ge
nder
in se
lect
ed N
TFPs
’ val
ue c
hain
s Th
e pi
lot c
ase
stud
y w
ill b
uild
on
wor
k do
ne in
201
0 to
id
entif
y cu
rren
t kno
wle
dge,
gap
s and
con
stra
ints
to
man
agem
ent a
nd li
velih
ood
bene
fits f
rom
sele
cted
N
TFPs
. The
stud
y ap
proa
ch w
ill c
ompr
ise th
e fo
llow
ing:
•
NTF
Ps a
nd si
tes s
elec
ted
durin
g th
e fir
st
phas
e of
the
stud
y in
201
0 w
ill b
e m
aint
aine
d •
Cate
goriz
atio
n of
act
ors w
ithin
eac
h va
lue
chai
n as
a fu
nctio
n of
role
s, g
ende
r, an
d te
nure
st
atus
•
Anal
ysis
of in
stitu
tiona
l, en
viro
nmen
tal a
nd
soci
o-ec
onom
ic c
onte
xt a
ffect
ing
man
agem
ent
and
equi
ty in
reve
nue
dist
ribut
ion
with
in e
ach
valu
e ch
ain
• M
appi
ng o
f res
ourc
e an
d m
onet
ary
flow
s O
utpu
ts w
ill b
asic
ally
com
prise
a v
alue
cha
in re
port
, on
e st
uden
t the
sis a
nd a
pol
icy
brie
fing
note
.
CIFO
R (IU
CN,
Uni
vers
ity
of O
uaga
doug
ou,
Nat
iona
l NTF
Ps
asso
ciat
ion)
$2
5,00
0 (t
otal
ask
is fo
r $5
1,00
0 an
d it
invo
lves
oth
er
inst
itutio
ns;
RRI w
ill li
ke to
pa
rtic
ipat
e ha
lf of
the
budg
et
and
the
othe
r in
stitu
tions
will
ta
ke c
are
of
the
rest
; fu
ndin
g m
ight
co
me
from
AT
EMs a
fter
fu
ndra
ising
)
Copy
and
dist
ribut
e th
e ge
nder
-sen
sitiv
e dr
aftin
g gu
ide
for t
he r
ural
land
cha
rter
an
d ex
tra
book
let o
n dr
aftin
g th
e PC
D an
d PR
D Pr
oduc
e an
d br
oadc
ast a
radi
o sh
ow o
n th
e co
nten
ts o
f the
dra
ftin
g gu
ide
for t
he ru
ral
land
cha
rter
to in
clud
e ge
nder
aw
aren
ess
-Dra
ft a
nd d
issem
inat
e a
gend
er te
nure
gui
de to
in
form
the
rura
l lan
d ch
arte
r and
cre
ate
awar
enes
s am
ong
rura
l far
mer
s org
aniza
tions
; - c
ontin
ue th
e id
entif
icat
ion
of te
nure
cha
mpi
ons a
nd
crea
te a
nat
iona
l dat
abas
e;
- org
anize
a g
ener
al a
ssem
bly
to p
ut in
pla
ce th
e ge
nder
pla
tfor
m;
- Dra
ft T
oRs a
nd c
omm
issio
n a
scop
ing
and
anal
ytic
al
stud
y fo
r est
ablis
hing
a g
ende
r wat
chdo
g gr
oup
for
CSO
s in
Burk
ina
Faso
;
IUCN
(f
acili
tatio
n fo
r ch
ampi
ons)
C
IFO
R
$12,
000
Cont
inue
iden
tifyi
ng c
ham
pion
s and
es
tabl
ish a
dat
abas
e
Org
anize
the
foun
ding
gen
eral
ass
embl
y fo
r the
pla
tfor
m
Wor
ksho
p to
shar
e th
e fin
ding
s of t
he d
raft
st
udy
on th
e ge
nder
wat
chdo
g gr
oup
This
set o
f act
iviti
es w
ill e
nabl
e a
Gend
er P
latf
orm
for
Civi
l Soc
iety
Org
aniza
tions
to b
e es
tabl
ished
in
Burk
ina;
the
even
tual
aim
for t
his g
roup
is to
ens
ure
that
gen
der i
s tak
en in
to a
ccou
nt in
nat
iona
l pla
ns fo
r fo
rest
ry m
anag
emen
t and
clim
ate
chan
ge in
itiat
ives
IUCN
(f
acili
tatio
n fo
r ch
ampi
ons)
C
IFO
R
$16,
990
Deve
lop
a dr
aftin
g gu
ide
for t
he ru
ral l
and
char
ters
(CFR
) to
inco
rpor
ate
gend
er
Prep
arat
ory
wor
ksho
p, to
ana
lyze
the
draf
t an
d fo
rmal
ize th
e gu
ide
This
set o
f act
iviti
es is
des
igne
d to
ens
ure
that
fore
st
tenu
re ri
ghts
are
take
n in
to a
ccou
nt d
urin
g th
e dr
aftin
g of
rura
l lan
d ch
arte
rs, a
nd th
at g
ende
r qu
estio
ns a
re a
ddre
ssed
.
IUCN
(fa
cilit
atio
n fo
r ch
ampi
ons)
C
IFO
R
$8,7
90
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
Tra
in lo
cal o
ffici
als o
n na
tura
l res
ourc
e go
vern
ance
Pr
oduc
e an
d br
oadc
ast p
rogr
ams o
n na
tura
l res
ourc
e go
vern
ance
Va
lidat
ion
and
adop
tion
wor
ksho
p fo
r the
gu
ide
Thes
e ac
tiviti
es w
ill st
reng
then
loca
l offi
cial
s’ c
apac
ity
for t
he fo
llow
ing
issue
s : c
limat
e ch
ange
miti
gatio
n an
d ad
apta
tion,
redu
cing
GHG
em
issio
ns, a
nd
part
icip
atio
n in
diff
eren
t dec
ision
-mak
ing
bodi
es
IUCN
(fa
cilit
atio
n fo
r ch
ampi
ons)
C
IFO
R
$35,
390
Deve
lop
tool
s and
indi
cato
rs fo
r m
onito
ring,
pla
nnin
g an
d ev
alua
tion
of A
d Ho
c Co
mm
ittee
Ho
ld tw
o or
dina
ry se
ssio
ns o
f the
Ad
Hoc
Com
mitt
ee ;
prop
ose
actio
ns a
nd
reco
mm
enda
tions
Dr
aft a
nd a
men
d th
e w
ork
plan
for t
he a
d ho
c co
mm
ittee
-App
ropr
iate
indi
cato
rs a
re id
entif
ied;
- M
onito
ring
wor
kshe
ets a
re d
evel
oped
; - M
onito
ring
wor
kshe
ets a
re a
naly
zed
and
reco
mm
enda
tions
and
act
ions
are
pro
pose
d;
- Act
ivity
repo
rts,
aud
io c
omm
unic
atio
n ai
ds a
re
prod
uced
; - A
ctiv
ity im
plem
enta
tion
is ev
alua
ted;
- T
he P
latf
orm
’s p
rogr
am is
dra
fted
IUCN
(fa
cilit
atio
n fo
r ch
ampi
ons)
C
IFO
R
$14,
190
IUCN
’s ro
le to
faci
litat
e (s
uppo
rt, a
dvise
) ci
vil s
ocie
ty o
rgan
izatio
ns i.
e. te
nure
ch
ampi
ons t
o im
plem
ent R
RI 2
011
activ
ities
in B
urki
na F
aso
IU
CN
$12,
640
Ghana
Part
icip
ate
in a
nd p
opul
arize
reso
urce
rig
hts a
ppro
ache
s to
the
cons
titut
iona
l re
view
pro
cess
, for
est s
ecto
r pol
icy
revi
ew,
fore
st le
gisla
tion
revi
ew, a
nd la
nd
legi
slatio
n re
view
This
set
of
activ
ities
is
desig
ned
to
ensu
re
that
al
tern
ativ
e N
R go
vern
ance
(p
olic
y,
legi
slatio
n an
d in
stitu
tions
) re
gim
e fu
lly
pres
ente
d to
Gh
anai
an
soci
ety
Civ
Civ
ic R
espo
nse
(FW
G, N
ETRI
GHT,
N
COM
, CIC
OL)
$30,
000
$20,
000
Hold
gov
erna
nce
trai
ning
wor
ksho
ps fo
r FO
SSA
and
othe
r sen
ior s
taff
of F
C an
d in
vite
seni
or fo
rest
ry st
aff t
o go
vern
ance
w
orks
hops
This
set
of a
ctiv
ities
will
allo
w t
he r
efor
mist
gro
up in
FC
man
agem
ent t
o be
con
solid
ated
Ci
vic
Resp
onse
IU
CN fu
nded
Prom
ote
Dist
rict F
ores
t For
ums
aggr
essiv
ely
and
focu
s the
m in
crea
singl
y on
th
e “w
hat i
f?”
and
at th
e sa
me
time
deep
en c
olla
bora
tion
amon
gst R
RC
netw
ork
mem
bers
and
bui
ld o
n th
eir
com
mun
icat
ion
reso
urce
s
This
activ
ity w
ill l
ead
to s
tron
ger
com
mun
ity b
ased
go
vern
ance
re
form
m
ovem
ent
and
will
le
ad
to
stro
nger
med
ia fo
cus o
n N
R go
vern
ance
issu
es
Civi
c Re
spon
se
Fund
ed b
y an
othe
r pr
ojec
t
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
Supp
ort c
limat
e ne
twor
k in
form
atio
n an
d ca
paci
ty b
uild
ing
for C
SOs a
nd C
BOs
thro
ugh
a RE
DD li
stse
rv fo
r Gha
na;
capa
city
-bui
ldin
g an
d st
rate
gy w
orks
hops
on
RED
D; c
apita
lizin
g on
fore
st fo
rum
s to
disc
uss r
elev
ant R
EDD
issue
s; in
form
atio
n ca
mpa
ign
(com
mun
ity ra
dio
stat
ions
)
This
set o
f act
iviti
es w
ill e
nabl
e an
info
rmed
net
wor
k is
enga
ged
in R
EDD
and
clim
ate
chan
ge p
roce
ss i
n Gh
ana,
and
will
incr
ease
the
flow
of i
nfor
mat
ion
abou
t RE
DD d
evel
opm
ents
and
the
ir im
plic
atio
ns t
o CB
Os
and
CSO
s com
men
ced
Civi
c Re
spon
se
$25,
000
$10,
000
Med
ia c
ampa
ign:
eng
agin
g M
EST,
MLN
R an
d PS
Cs o
n co
mm
unity
righ
ts is
sues
; qu
arte
rly m
ains
trea
m p
ublic
atio
ns o
n co
mm
uniti
es’ e
xper
ienc
e w
ith R
EDD+
im
plem
enta
tion
This
will
ena
ble
plat
form
s to
be
esta
blish
ed f
or C
SOs
and
CBO
s, to
eng
age
MES
T, M
LNR,
and
NRS
C.
Civi
c Re
spon
se
$1
5,00
0
VIII.
Sum
mar
y of
all
regi
onal
act
iviti
es
Incl
ude
here
a s
umm
ary
of k
ey re
gion
al a
ctiv
ities
pla
nned
in th
is ti
me
perio
d, in
clud
ing
coor
dina
tion
and
impl
emen
tatio
n re
spon
sibi
lity
and
cost
.
Cat
egor
y Pr
iorit
y 1
Fund
s R
eque
st
Prio
rity
2 Fu
nds
Req
uest
Ti
er 1
Cou
ntry
act
iviti
es
$414
,992
$4
54,4
22
Tier
2 C
ount
ry a
ctiv
ities
$3
47,1
59
$114
,925
R
egio
nal a
ctiv
ities
$1
00,0
00
$145
,000
R
egio
nal F
acili
tatio
n $1
00,0
00
- To
tal
$962
,151
$7
14,3
47
RRI Africa: Work Program 2011-2012
IX. Recommendations for Global Activities Include here recommendations for global-level activities for which you see an emerging demand, for example for global network support to a certain constituency or global strategic analysis.
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
Glo
bal P
rogr
am
Act
ivity
R
eque
st (i
f any
) Pa
rtne
rs a
nd
Col
labo
rato
rs
Rea
lizin
g R
ight
s •
Cla
rify
RR
I’s s
peci
fic p
ositi
on o
n te
nure
on
right
s; b
uild
vo
cabu
lary
to c
onne
ct d
iver
se s
ituat
ions
, stru
ggle
s an
d al
lianc
es (e
.g. m
ake
clea
r whi
ch “c
omm
uniti
es” a
nd
whi
ch “r
ight
s” w
e su
ppor
t) •
Know
ledg
e an
d ex
perie
nce
shar
ing
on e
xist
ing
succ
ess
stor
ies
acro
ss A
frica
and
glo
bally
•
Build
com
mun
ity a
nd C
SOs’
cap
acity
for a
dvoc
acy,
cla
im
tact
ics
and
nego
tiatio
n to
ols
• C
omm
unity
Rig
hts
map
ping
: coa
litio
n-w
ide
refle
ctio
n to
es
tabl
ish
a m
aste
ry o
f ind
icat
ors
to e
nabl
e m
onito
ring
on
the
coun
try le
vel
• G
ende
r in
Afric
a: C
olle
ct c
ount
ry-le
vel s
tudi
es in
to o
ne
docu
men
t for
glo
bal c
onsu
mpt
ion
to b
e us
ed a
s a
sour
ce
of in
form
atio
n an
d da
ta a
cros
s re
gion
s •
Gen
der g
loba
l sco
ping
: com
plem
ent w
hat i
s do
ne in
ot
her r
egio
ns a
nd re
ach
out t
o al
l coa
litio
n m
embe
rs
• C
olle
ct a
ll co
untry
-leve
l ge
nder
ana
lyse
s of
fore
st a
nd la
nd
legi
slat
ion
into
a
regi
onal
-leve
l do
cum
ent
• R
EFAC
OF,
Cam
eroo
n Ec
olog
y, IU
CN
, FC
I
ATEM
s •
Doc
umen
t Afri
can
case
s an
d pi
lots
to id
entif
y be
st
prac
tices
with
in th
e re
gion
•
Build
nat
iona
l-lev
el P
artn
er a
nd c
olla
bora
tor c
apac
ity to
id
entif
y, d
ocum
ent a
nd p
ropa
gate
ATE
Ms
in a
ssoc
iatio
n w
ith th
e re
gion
al re
sear
ch c
omm
unity
• G
ende
r and
N
TFPs
in S
ahel
•
Cas
e st
udie
s in
C
FEs
• C
IFO
R-W
est A
frica
•
Partn
ers
and
colla
bora
tors
wor
king
on
CFE
s R
ight
s an
d C
limat
e •
Esta
blis
h re
gula
r pla
tform
s (m
eetin
gs, l
ists
erv,
etc
) for
sh
arin
g on
RED
D a
mon
g co
untri
es
• In
crea
se a
war
enes
s of
RR
I’s p
ositi
on o
n R
ED
D w
ithin
Af
rica;
link
Rig
hts
and
Clim
ate
glob
al w
ork
to th
e re
gion
al
leve
l
• En
gage
men
t with
su
breg
iona
l pa
rliam
ents
on
RED
D+
• 2nd
Reg
iona
l D
ialo
gue
on
“fore
st
gove
rnan
ce a
nd
clim
ate
chan
ge”
as p
re-e
vent
to
CO
P17
in S
outh
Af
rica
• N
ESD
A, C
ivic
Res
pons
e •
Civ
ic R
espo
nse,
FPP
, C
ED, A
CR
N
RR
I Afri
ca: W
ork
Prog
ram
201
1-20
12
Net
wor
ks
• Es
tabl
ish
and
supp
ort r
egio
nal r
esea
rch
netw
orks
•
Esta
blis
h an
d su
ppor
t reg
iona
l net
wor
ks o
f su
ppor
tive
parli
amen
taria
ns, l
awm
aker
s, a
nd m
ayor
s to
stre
ngth
en k
now
ledg
e an
d ad
voca
cy o
f com
mun
ity
right
s
• C
reat
e a
regi
onal
da
taba
se o
f C
SOs
enga
ged
on ri
ghts
and
te
nure
bas
ed o
n Bu
rkin
a m
odel
(s
ee R
egio
nal
wor
kpla
n)
• Pi
t-saw
yer
exch
ange
s:
Libe
ria-L
atin
Am
eric
a; M
ano
Riv
er-M
onta
na
• Ex
chan
ge v
isits
fo
r Mal
ian
land
, fo
rest
, agr
icul
ture
di
visi
on o
ffici
als
to N
iger
• Al
l RR
I Par
tner
s an
d C
olla
bora
tors
•
Gre
en A
dvoc
ates
, SD
I
