PAPFor

Maintenance and restoration of forest cover in rural areas

Yuzhou — 2022-10-21T17:00:17Z

In the face of forest cover degradation in rural areas, there is a need to identify High Conservation Value (HCV) forests and to support participatory land use planning initiatives (in the Glaro District of Liberia), such as community-based sustainable management of remaining forests (sacred forests, cemetery woods). Also, by encouraging the protection of certain riverbanks, such as the Hana in Côte d'Ivoire, revegetation can be undertaken, recreating a green network in the landscape.

Furthermore, in Côte d'Ivoire, with a view to restoring conditions for sustainable agriculture and diversifying producers' sources of income, good agricultural practices are being promoted, particularly in cocoa
farming through agroforestry. This reintroduction of trees in agricultural areas contributes to a diffuse connectivity favourable to certain biodiversity.

Support to Protected Areas

Yuzhou — 2022-10-21T16:59:34Z

After supporting the gazettement process of the Grebo-Krahn National Park in Liberia (including participatory demarcation of the proposed protected area boundaries), which was gazetted in 2017, the project supported the participatory development of its Management Plan. The plan was approved in December 2021. Further support will be provided by the project to the FDA, through the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, to improve the park's monitoring and law enforcement.

In Côte d'Ivoire, the project supports the implementation of the Taï NP Management Plan through support to several neighbouring communities (see above: sustainable management of residual forests and natural resources, promotion of agroforestry, etc.).

The project also supports training in protected area management tools such as IMET (Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool), as well as those for monitoring and evaluating management effectiveness (BNS (Basic Needs Survey), SAPA (Social Assessment of Protected Areas) and SAGE (Site Assessment for Governance and Equity)) and the perception of local populations.

Community-based participatory management and improvement of living conditions

Yuzhou — 2022-10-21T16:59:05Z

An essential issue for protected area managers is to be able to encourage the continued commitment of communities to conservation by supporting their development and living conditions. Local Development Plans have been drawn up in six villages bordering Taï NP and support is provided to implement these (securing funding, technical supervision, etc.).

PAPFor supports the improvement of non-timber forest product value chains by introducing tree species into cropping systems; this promotes agroforestry initiatives, with the example in Taï of Makoré butter, extracted from the seeds of the Makore redwood tree and similar to shea butter which is already well known in the cosmetics industry. The gender approach in this activity's implementation is illustrated in the village of Zaïpobly where a women's group produces this product and also runs a large nursery of multi-purpose trees for agroforestry, the seedlings of which are sold in the Taï Department and beyond.