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Project "Enhancing the contribution of Non-wood Forest Products to Poverty Alleviation and Food Security in Central African countries"
Project Symbol: GCP/RAF/441/GER
Donor: Government of the Federal Republic of Germany
Executing Agency: FAO
Implementing Agencies: Ministries responsible for forestry in three Central African countries (Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Central African Republic)
Funding: USD 3 842 271
Duration: 3 years
Executive summary
The project contributes to poverty alleviation and sustainable forest management in Central Africa through the valorisation of Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFP) by local people. The project is designed to provide the COMIFAC Executive Secretariat, Governments, selected communities and other partners such as NGOs with adequate expertise and support to acquire the necessary capacities to refine implementation procedures in support of forest policy and legislation governing NWFP management and development strategies, as well as to create/support an enabling environment for small scale enterprises based on NWFPs. The priority of the project is to install at local, national and subregional levels a policy and institutional framework that govern the access of local people to resources and markets for NWFP. The project will enhance food security through the development of an enabling policy, legislation and institutional context leading to a more sustainable and socially equitable use of NWFP in Central Africa in general and in Gabon, the Central African Republic (RCA) and the Republic of the Congo in particular through the national level implementation of the "NWFP Regional Directives". At pilot sites, the project will strengthen NWFP-based small and medium scale enterprises to benefit poor, local communities by promoting more added-value processing, marketing and by capacitating producer's support networks. The project will also better integrate NWFP into national level socio-economic planning processes and strategies for poverty alleviation, food security and Right to Food.
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