Project/activity information

This community-based project aimed at supporting the 31st December Momen’s Movement, a Ghanaian NGO, and indigenous communities in the Worobong District of the East Region of Ghana, for the rehabilitation of degraded forest lands. The project was implemented in a collaborative manner between the Executing Agency, the local communities and government agencies at the local and district levels.

All project activities were successfully carried out and contributed to get the following main achievements: five (5) Community Forestry Committees (CFCs) were established and operationalized to within the empowerment process promoted by the project; five (5) cassava-processing machines and sixty-four (64) snail-farming units had been established and operationalized in the participating communities, as incentives for local communities, contributing to increase their income while being involved in the implementation of project activities; practical training workshops were organized for leaders of the communities, mostly women, on the following matters: participatory rural diagnosis methodologies, nursery establishment and management, plantation establishment and management with agroforestry techniques, fire prevention and control, cassava-processing and machine operation, snail-farming operations and forestry regulations and policies; a Gender sensitization workshop was organized for 60 leaders of the communities in order to consolidate the involvement of women in implementing project activities and ensuring the sustainability of the project main outcomes; and 660 hectares of community forest plantations were established in degraded forest lands in the Eastern Region of Ghana with seedlings produced by five nurseries established and operated by local communities, and those seedlings were purchased by the project as incentives for their involvement in the project implementation.