Project/activity information

The objective of this pre-project was to contribute to increasing timber production through the sustainable management of natural forests in the Adele Area. This pre-project specifically aimed at developing a Strategy and a Management Plan with the participation of local communities, all based on ITTO Criteria and Indicators for sustainable forest management. The strategy adopted for the implementation of this pre-project was based on a full consultation of local communities, from the conception phase to the involvement in the execution of most of the pre-project activities, which contributed to the development of a strategy for the rehabilitation and management of the “Assoukoko-Adele” degraded forest and to the formulation of a project proposal to implement the aforementioned strategy.

The main pre-project achievements had as follows: awareness campaigns were undertaken in order to get the involvement of local populations in the management process of Assoukoko natural gazetted forests and Adele community forests; the demarcation of the Assoukoko natural forest and Adele community forest was undertaken in consultation with local communities and traditional chiefs, and materialized in the field with boundary stones; the forestry study, mapping and inventory had been carried out by a national consultant; the socio-economic, land tenure and environmental studies had been completed by a national consultant; the Final Technical Report regarding the strategy for the rehabilitation and management of Assoukoko natural forests and Adele community forests had been completed; and the submission of the project proposal PD 407/06 (F) “Support to the Implementation of Action Plan for the Sustainable Management of the Assoukoko Gazetted Forest”, for the implementation of the above-mentioned strategy.