Community Guide to the VPA
The Civil Society Independent Forest Monitoring (CS-IFM) team in Liberia have produced a colourful short booklet to assist in explaining how VPAs work, the key terms and processes, and the contribution communities can make to ensuring forest law enforcement, governance, and legal trade.
The cartoons would be easy to use in other countries, and the text and cartoons are available from the CS-IFM team on request: liberia.forestmonitor@gmail.com
The CS-IFM team was established in 2012 and are an independent team monitoring and reporting on the forest sector in Liberia, focusing on community rights, benefit sharing and participation in forest governance. Each team member represents an organisation within the NGO Coalition of Liberia. The CS-IFM strive to provide high quality and reliable information to all forest sector stakeholders including government agencies, the private sector, civil society and the international community in order to inform decision-making, increase accountability and improve governance of Liberia’s forest resources.
The CS-IFM team would like to thank Carlos Battaglini of the European Commission for his helpful comments on the first draft of this document.
This community guide is an independent publication authored by the Civil-Society Independent Forest Monitors It is based on information contained within the Liberia-EU VPA briefing note (May 2011) available at: http://www.efi.int/files/attachments/euflegt/liberia_vpabriefingnote_eng.pdf. Itis funded by the European Commission (EC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). However the views expressed in this document do not necessarily represent the views of the EC or DFID. Anything inaccurate should be drawn to the attention of the facilitator of the Liberia NGO Coalition of Liberia.
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