Category: Africa
Natural Resources and Environmental Governance Project (Ghana)
The Natural Resources and Environmental Governance (NREG) program is a five year program of policy, institutional reforms and capacity building to improve natural resource and environmental governance in Ghana. The objective of the project includes ensuring predictable and sustainable financing of the forest and wildlife sectors and effective forest law enforcement, improving mining sector revenue collection, management, and transparency, addressing social issues in forest and...
Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Voluntary Partnership Agreement (Ghana)
Ghana was one of the first countries to sign the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union. Negotiations on the agreement concluded in September 2008, the VPA was formally signed on 20 November 2009 and it was ratified on 19 March 2010. The VPA ensures the FLEGT licensing system comes into effect in Ghana, attempting to exclude illegally logged timber products from EU markets. It makes it illegal to import...
The Constitution of the Republic of Ghana
The Constitution of the Republic of Ghana is the supreme law of Ghana which has relevancy to the management and legal comandment of lands within the country. Chapter twenty one regarding Lands and Natural Resources, sets out that public lands shall be vested in the President on behalf of, and in trust for, the people of Ghana. The Constitution legislates the establishment of a Lands Commission which shall manage all public lands and a Forestry Commission, which shall be responsible for the...
National Environment Policy (Ghana)
The main aim of the National Environment Policy is to use and maintain natural resources in a sustainable way. The policy seeks to maintain ecosystem and ecological processes, ensure sound management of natural resources and the environment, adequately protect against harmful impacts and destructive practices, and preserve biological diversity, guide development in accordance with quality requirements to eliminiate polutants, to integrate environmental considerations in sectoral structural...
Forest Development Master Plan
The Forest Development Master Plan prepared for the period 1996-2020 was based on the guidelines from Ghana's Vision 2020 Plan. Ghana's FDMP aims to achieve the sustainable development of forest and wildlife resources, modernisation of the timber industry and conservation of biodiversity and of the environment. The master plan contains specific commitments including the introduction of a forest management certification system, the merging of the Timber Export Development Board and the...
National Environmental Action Plan
The National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) provides the basic policy framework for overall environmental and land management for Ghana. The Action Plan includes the key issues of the country's economy and environmental sustainability including land management, forestry, wildlife, water management, marine and coastal systems, mining, manufactury industries, hazardous chemicals and human settlements. NEAP defines a set of policy actions, related investments, institutional...
Prime Ministers Office of Kenya
The Prime Ministers Office of Kenya is tasked with implementing the National Climate Change Response Strategy to be implemented in an effort to harmonise environmental and climate change policies in Kenya, particularly agriculture, energy and infrastructure. The Prime Ministers Office is also documenting climate change vulnerability and impacts as well as adaptation and mitigation options for Kenya.
REDD+ Capacity Building
According to the Voluntary REDD+ Database (VRD) there is ongoing REDD+ capacity building and awareness raising in Kenya.
Bamburi-Lafarge Fuel Conversion
The Bamburi Lafarge Fuel Conversion project is a carbon and afforestation/reforestation project near Mombasa implemented by Lafarge. The project involves the manufacturing plant implementing a conversion from coal to wood, as fuel for the cement kilns, to substitute fossil fuelss and reduce carbon emissions. The company is also implementing a project to support local communities to grow tree stands on their farms, which it will purchase at premium prices for...
Lafarge
World leader in building materials, Lafarge extracts resources from the heart of the earth to make materials to bring to the heart of life. Present in 76 countries, the Group responds to the world's demand for housing and infrastructure.
