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Building an investment model enabling citizens to protect Liberia’s forests

 

Key Facts

FUNDING SCHEME ICON
FUNDING SCHEME
Main Project
VALUE ICON
VALUE
£409,994
WHERE ICON
WHERE
Liberia

Summary

We will generate evidence that community-managed small loan programmes paired with targeted forest friendly livelihood training can form a sustainable and scalable funding model to empower communities, reduce poverty and conserve vital habitat in Liberia’s Community Forests (CFs). Loan interest will fund Citizen Conservation Teams (CCTs) to protect high conservation value forests. Evidence generated will support the design and establishment of a ≥£1 million social-environmental investment fund to capitalise12 CF loan and CCT programmes across the transboundary Gola landscape (Liberia/Sierra Leone).
 
Status Completed
Reference 27-011
Round 26
Start 01/10/2020
End 30/09/2023

Project Leader


Project Partners
Forestry Development Authority (FDA) - Liberia, Community Forest Management Bodies, Environmental Finance Limited, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa

Biomes
TROPICAL FOREST, FORESTS

Production
FORESTRY

Threats To Biodiversity
OVER EXPLOITATION, LAND USE CHANGE

Broad Approches
SPECIES CONSERVATION, IN SITU, ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION, ECOSYSTEM APPROACH, GOODS SERVICES, SUSTAINABLE USE, INCENTIVES, POVERTY REDUCTION, LIVELIHOODS, BENEFIT SHARING, COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

Specific Tools
RESEARCH TRAINING, TRAINING, PARTICIPATORY, PROTECTED AREAS, NBSAP

Countries
Liberia

Conventions
CBD CITES

Documents:
Download: Annual Report - 27-011 AR3 - 04/09/2023

Download: Half Year Report - 27-011 HYR3 - 07/03/2023

Download: Annual Report - 27-011 AR2 - 07/03/2023

Download: Half Year Report - 27-011 HYR2 - 14/01/2022

Download: Annual Report - 27-011 AR1 - 11/08/2021

Download: Application Form - 27-011 App - 25/09/2020