Building an investment model enabling citizens to protect Liberia’s forests
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £409,994
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).
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
