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Liberia Forest Sector

Liberia Forest Sector. By Moses Wogbeh, J. Milton Teahjay and Nouhou Ndam Liberia GCF team Banda Aceh 18-20 May 2010. Liberia Forest Sector. Liberia is located in west Africa It has 9.58 million ha of land, 50% of which is forested (4.5 million ha). It has 3.5 millions inhabitants.

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Liberia Forest Sector

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  1. Liberia Forest Sector By Moses Wogbeh, J. Milton Teahjay and Nouhou Ndam Liberia GCF team Banda Aceh 18-20 May 2010

  2. Liberia Forest Sector • Liberia is located in west Africa • It has 9.58 million ha of land, 50% of which is forested (4.5 million ha). • It has 3.5 millions inhabitants

  3. Liberia Forest Sector - Reform • The Liberia forest is managed by FDA • Development of Policy and legal framework to manage the forest sector in Liberia on 3 “C” approach • Community forestry • Commercial forestry • Conservation forestry

  4. Liberia Forest Sector -Challenges • Need of livelihood in a post war country • Drivers of deforestation include: • Slash and burn agriculture • Mining • Charcoal and fuel production • Chain sawing / pit sawing • Logging • Infrastructure development • Poaching

  5. Liberia Forest Sector –Opportunities 1/3 • Rich in biodiversity hotspot (plant & animal species) • Largest remaining west African tropical rainforests • Stability after 14 years of war • Establishment of partners consultation platform-The Liberia Forest initiative • International confidence in President Ellen Sirleaf Leadership

  6. Liberia Forest Sector - Opportunities 2/3 • Good governance /Policy will • Chain of custody development • Agreement with community prior to start of logging concession • Consultation with communities before establishment of protected areas

  7. Liberia Forest Sector – Opportunities 3/3 • Benefit sharing mechanism in place • 30% of the land rental in logging concession is paid to the affected communities • 1.5 USD per cubic meters of timber harvested in FMC is paid to communities • 1 USD per cubic meters of timber harvested in TSC is paid to communities • Social agreement between logging company and the affected communities

  8. Liberia Forest Sector - REDD Liberia initiative of REDD is at 3 levels: • National level • Development of R-PP (World Bank support) • Sub National /SINOE Level • Aspiration to join GCF • Local Level –Pro-poor REDD piloting at SAPO (FFI/NORAD support)

  9. Liberia Forest Sector – REDD at National Level( World Bank Support) • Establishment of REDD TWG to prepare R-PP • Current forest situation • Stakeholder consultation • REDD + strategy options • Institutional & legal implementation framework • Monitoring system • R-PP (National Road Map for REDD) to be submitted to the World Bank by October2010 • If approved , 3.6 million will be donated by the FCPF

  10. Liberia Forest Sector – REDD at Local level • Landscape with Sapo NP at risk, community forests & communal forests to be supported & logging concession to be engaged • Planned work include • Risk analysis • Stakeholders engagement • Community consultation and carbon monitoring • Benefit sharing pilot initiative

  11. Liberia Forest Sector - REDD at Sub national level • Sinoe county is 3,861 sq miles (10,000 sq km) and has a total coastline of 86 km with close to 100,000 inhabitants •  It has a development plan • Its Superintendent (Governor) has expressed interest to be part of GCF initiative • Receptive to GCF process

  12. Liberia Forest Sector – Sinoe & food • Food security: • food insecure (8%), - highly vulnerable (44%), • moderately vulnerable (39%), - food secured (10%)

  13. Liberia Forest Sector - REDD limitations • Poverty alleviation • Providing alternative livelihood • Sustaining community engagement • Attracting interim funding prior to carbon credit fund

  14. Thank you Long live GCF - Liberia collaboration

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