1. Through Livelihoods and Landscapes, the forest conservation programme is:
    • Identifying and attempting to remove constraints limiting access to, or use of, forest and tree resources
    • Supporting negotiations and local arrangements at the field level (such as local contractual arrangements that may provide access to forest resources in the absence of full legal title);
    • Supporting the documentation of tenure analysis
  2. The Forest Conservation Programme and its partner, the Rights and Resources Initiative, commissioned the Liberian NGO Green Advocates to prepare an analysis of how land tenure operates in Liberia.
     
  3. The Forest Conservation Programme has also been involved in a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which will feed into the draft Community Rights Law that will regulate community forestry in Liberia. (To download a summary of the Liberian SEA, click here.)
     
  4. The Forest Conservation Programme and IUCN field staff in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda are collaborating with CIFOR, ICRAF, RRI and local researchers and community leaders in a workprogram in Central and West Africa analyzing alternative tenure and enterprise models to build a policy dialogue and network promoting secure forest tenure rights and small-scale and community forest enterprises.