State of the Forest Reports

The Forests of the Congo Basin: State of the Forest Report {dsForest::reportyear}

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CARPE Lessons Learned

Tools for strengthening good governance in NRM in the Congo Basin

Since its inception, CARPE has developed under its strategic framework the Intermediate Result 2 (IR2) on good governance in Natural Resources Management (NRM) with two challenging indicators:

Indicator 1: Number of key new laws or policies for Protected Areas, logging concessions, and Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) areas passed or old laws and policies reformed with CARPE assistance;
Indicator 2: Number of NGO (and other civil society organizations) advocacy initiatives and activities (e.g., media articles about environmental governance issues e.g. illegal logging, bushmeat poaching; Natural Resources court cases brought or complaints filed with appropriate government agencies) promoted with CARPE assistance.

To achieve this challenge, CARPE has established a Small Grant Program as a mechanism to build civil society capacities through learning by doing, thereby enabling civil society to be more proactive and effective in mobilizing itself to work side-by-side with the government and other stakeholders to develop and promote new laws and policies, review existing ones and ensure their implementation for sustainable natural resources management.

Under the good governance component of the CARPE program, several tools were developed to ensure effective implementation, monitoring and reporting including:
a) the country team, which is a platform for planning and prioritizing actions for policies and legal development, revision and implementation,
b) the country matrix, to plan, execute and report on results and,
c) a detailed Small Grant Policy and Procedure Manual to administer the Small Grant program.

Intermediate Result 3 (IR3) addresses good governance in forest concessions. The monitoring indicator is 'Number of CARPE countries implementing surveillance system for illegal logging'. A tool for monitoring illegal logging, among other things, is the Forestry Atlas. A Forestry Atlas combines satellite imagery and Geographic Information System (GIS) data to display forestry concessions and associated ground surveys to generate a web-based forest information monitoring system to help national governments and independent observers to verify whether forestry concession holders are practicing legal and environmentally sustainable logging practices.

Select a country below to view the interactive online forest atlas produced by WRI:

Cameroon

Republic of Congo

Currently, not all of the forestry atlases are interactive web based maps, but the reports and associated maps are available for download.

Select a country below to view forestry atlas report:

Cameroon (WRI)

Gabon (WRI)

Central African Republic (WRI)

Democratic Republic of Congo (WRI)

Democratic Republic of Congo (MECNT)

Republic of Congo (WRI)

For more information about CARPE's objectives and intermediate results, please refer to: Strategy and the Results Framework.

CARPE Planning, Management and Monitoring Documents

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