Ghana: Community Based Forest Monitoring Project Launched

Nkawie — Friend of the Earth-Ghana (FOE- Ghana) and the Rainforest Foundation United Kingdom (RFUK) are partnering to implement a two year Project entitled "Community Based Real Time Forest Monitoring to support Forest law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Processes".

The project being funded by the United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development (DFID), will trail community-based monitoring of forest in Ghana by building the capacity of forest for the communities to detect and report illegal forest activities in real time (as and when they happen or are chanced upon) with the use of a mobile phone application and information Technology systems developed by United Kingdom (UK).

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