COMMUNITY FORESTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
October 2019
This brochure presents the approach taken by the RFUK-led consortium project 'Community Forests in DRC', implemented between 2016-2019, and some of the results achieved. The project supported pilot sites in Equateur and North Kivu, strengthened the legal framework through the adoption of a National Strategy on Community Forestry, and built up capacities of the Congolese administration and civil society.
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MAKING COMMUNITY FORESTRY SUCCESSFUL IN DRC: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT
September 2019
This report is based on the premise that developing an understanding of local social structures, customary institutions and forest management practices is key for outside actors seeking to support participatory and inclusive community forestry in the Congo Basin.
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WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
September 2019
Based on a literature review and field work in Equateur, this study provides an overview of gender inequalities in the DRC - particularly in the context of community forestry - as well as recommendations to improve women's participation in community forestry initiatives.
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Securing customary rights is key to sustainable community forestry (Republic of Congo and CAR)
September 2019
The laws in the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic provide limited protection to indigenous peoples and local communities regarding access to land and forest resources. Often, logging concessions overlap their territories, restricting access to lands and resources. However, the development of community forests is gaining momentum in the region. These can help secure customary tenure, sustainably manage resources and improve livelihoods for indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs). As part of the DFID-funded CoNGOs project, the Forest Peoples Programme and Rainforest Foundation UK supported communities in the Republic of Congo (RoC) and the Central African Republic (CAR) to engage in community forestry and secure equitable and sustainable livelihoods.
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ALLOCATION OF COMMUNITY FORESTS IN THE CAR: LESSONS LEARNT AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL REFORMS
September 2019
A process to test the legal framework on community forests is currently underway in CAR. For more than two years, local and indigenous communities have been supported by civil society in applying for the allocation of the pilot community forests. The process developed by those involved has been documented to provide a basis for a review of the legal framework. This report presents the context, challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt during the pilot experiences.
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MAKING COMMUNITY FORESTS WORK FOR LOCAL AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
July 2019
As the Central African Republic (CAR) is entering a decisive phase that could lead to the allocation of the country’s first ‘pilot’ community forests, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and CAR civil society groups are supporting local communities in their application processes.
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Situation actuelle de la Foresterie Communautaire en RDC (par Fifi Likunde, Chef de Division de la Foresterie Communautaire)
June 2019
Dans cette présentation, donnée lors de la sixième Table Ronde nationale multi-acteurs sur la Foresterie Communautaire en RDC (Kinshasa, juin 2019), Fifi Likunde, Chef de la DFC, revient sur l'historique de la FC en RDC, les initiatives existantes, les acquis à capitaliser et les menaces.
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SECURING FORESTS: PARTICIPATORY MAPPING AND COMMUNITY FORESTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
January 2019
If well implemented, new community forest legislation in the DRC offers an unprecedented opportunity for communities to obtain legal rights to forests they have inhabited for generations and to improve their livelihoods. However, for community forests to deliver equitable and sustainable outcomes there is a need to ensure that they are developed by the communities themselves, to truly address their needs and priorities.
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Power to the people: How companies are exploiting community forestry in Liberia
October 2018
Liberia is seeing in a new age of progressive, community forestry that – if done right – has the potential to be an exemplary model for others to follow. But the community forestry permitting system is being hijacked by rapacious logging companies and a complicit Forestry Development Authority. Logging companies are enlisting local elites and coercing communities into signing secret agreements that grant them logging rights, in return for them financing the process communities are required to follow in order to obtain Authorised Forest Community status. It is imperative that the Liberian government and its international donors, notably Norway, now act to ensure large-scale loggers are not getting their hands on community forests for short-term profits.
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Transforming gender relations: upscaling collective action in women’s entrepreneurship
July 2018
Strengthening gender equality in business is an important and valid entry point to achieve Sustainable Development Goals that leave no-one behind. Making progress on gender means tackling entrenched power inequalities in diverse societies. At the heart of gender inequality lie systems of patriarchy and related socio-cultural norms which must be challenged at multiple levels
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