Category: Africa
Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement
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A Rocha (Ghana)
A Rocha is a project managed by Climate Stewards with the aim of investing in small-scale tree-planting programmes in the area of Kumasi in central Ghana and Damongo in the drier North of the country. Climate Stewards funds the materials, management, and training for community and student participation, with best practice rewarded. The involvement of the wider community will ensure the success of the project as families, churches and businesses see the social, economic and...
Forest, Climate & Communities Alliance (Ghana)
The Rainforest Alliance and USAID are improving the forest management skills of local communities, increasing the number of sustainably managed forestry operations, and helping local people increase their involvement in REDD activities. Project activities include community capacity building, technical assistance for SFM, REDD activities and strategies, meeting sustainability standards, build market linkages and long-term commercial sourcing relationships and monitoring and...
Tanzania Environmental Lawyers Action Team
The Lawyers'
Environmental Action Team is the first public interest environmental law
organization in Tanzania. It was established in 1994 and formally registered in
1995 under the Societies Ordinance. Its mission is to ensure sound natural
resource management and environmental protection in Tanzania. LEAT carries out
policy research, advocacy, and selected public interest litigation. Its
membership largely includes lawyers concerned with environmental management and
democratic governance in...
National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (MKUKUTA) (Tanzania)
The National Poverty Reduction Strategy, was adopted by the Cabinet and Parliament in early February 2005. In 2010 it was reviewed and the current second version, MKUKUTA II, is to be implemented between 2010/11 and 2014/15. MKUKUTA II makes linkages with Vision 2025 and is committed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as internationally agreed targets for reducing poverty. MKUKUTA aims to reduce poverty through three broad outcomes: growth and reduction of income...
National Energy Policy (Tanzania)
The National Energy Policy aims to improve the welfare and living standards of Tanzanians by addressing national energy needs as a result of structural changes in the economy and population increases. In order to meet this objective the focus of the Policy is to undertake activities related to developing domestic cost-effective energy resources; promote economic energy pricing; improve energy reliability, efficiency and security; encourage commercialisation and private sector engagement; reduce...
National Forest Plantation Development Programme (Ghana)
The National Forest Plantation Development Programme (NFPDP) was launched in September 2011 by the Government of Ghana at Ayigbe in the Wenchi District of the Brong-Ahafo Region. The aim of the programme is encouraging the development of a sustainable forest resource base that will satisfy future demand for industrial timber and enhance environmental quality thereby reducing pressure on existing natural forest. The programme objectives include restoring the forest cover of...
Bobiri Forest Area (Ghana)
The Bobiri Forest Area project in the Juaben District of Ghana aims to inventorise and spatially map forest-based carbon stocks with the intention of reducing deforestation and land degradation in high risk areas. The project further aims to contribute towards national level efforts in achieveing REDD-readiness. The outcome of the study includes the development of an effective country-specific methodology for estimating national emission reference levels under the REDD readiness...
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Readiness Grant Project (Ghana)
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) is supporting Ghana to design a socially and environmentally sound national strategy to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). The project will support Ghana in to advance it's REDD+ readiness process with the support of selected key activities identified in the Ghana’s Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP). The project will assist in establishing the key pillars of REDD+ readiness,...
