Liberia: Locals Speak On GAI/USAID's Land Project in Nimba

The successful pilot program on community forest management has directly engaged communities in order to achieve multi-functional objectives of protecting biodiversity and stimulating social and economic development in the Blei Community Forest and wider landscape.

Although a USAID Land Technology Solutions (LTS) pilot project in Blei Community Forest, Nimba County, intended to test and provide a framework for a more holistic approach to managing community forests and wider landscape resources ended recently, chiefs and elders of communities near the Blei Mountain have called on United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to allow Green Advocates International (GAI) continue with the project until their Community Forest Management Plan (CFMP) in collaboration with the Forestry Development Authority (FDA), is completed.

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