Report on lesson sharing workshop of community forest committees from the New Edubiase and Nkawie forest districts held on 10th December 2015
The Nature and Development Foundation (NDF) in partnership with the National Forestry Forum – Ghana (NFF-G) since 2013 have jointly executed different activities under the project “Advancing a legal and sustainable global timber trade through the EU FLEGT action plan”. These activities included community sensitization on forestry and natural resources management especially FLEGT and Ghana’s Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union. The community sensitization activities were followed by 10 district forums, five regional forums and one national forum. Following the successful implementation of these forums in 2013/2014, a decision was taken to support communities that committed to take further voluntary action in the protection of forest resources. Two forest reserves were selected – Asenanyo in Nkawie forest district and Numia in New Edubiase forest district both in the Ashanti region of Ghana. A series of training workshops were undertaken to prepare selected community volunteers to engage forest users, observe infractions and report same to the district forestry office or the appropriate authority. A total of 17 communities surrounding these two forest reserves were reached, four in Nkawie and 13 in New Edubiase. Each community was visited at least twice by NDF and NFF-G by way of monitoring of their activities. Full reports of the activities and the monitoring activities undertaken by NDF and NFF-G are available upon request. With the knowledge that these 17 communities were located in two forest reserves, were spread out and the mode of engagement was new, the project partners agreed to provide a platform for all participants to share lessons and experiences in the work they had executed within those few months. The programme for the day’s activities is presented as Annex II.
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