Tropical Forests: PD 48/98 Rev. 2 (I)

PD 48/98 Rev. 2 (I)

Reforestation of the Abutia plains by indigenous communities in the Volta Basin

Ghana

The African Environmental Regeneration Movement, a local NGO, involved in afforestation and environmental programmes intends to carry out reforestation of 1,360 ha of the Abutia Plains. This land has been devastated through oversropping by the defunct State Farms Corporation in the early sixties up to the seventies. This has led to a situation where the inhabitants have become poorer owing to the loss of soil fertility.

The project aims at supporting the communities in a reforestation programme in order to arrest and reverse the deterioration of the tropical forest and also develop the capacity of the inhabitants to protect and manage community forest resources.

Implementing agency		African Environmental Regeneration Movement
Budget		Total: US$ 712'088 Swiss contribution: US$ 200'000
Planned duration		48 Months
Starting date		December 1999
Status		Completed
Topics
Contact		jgasana(a)intercooperation.ch
Final Report ITTO: Final report, 5p. Evaluation Ex-Post Dourojeanni M.J.; Sève J. E.; 2006: Overall Evaluation of ITTO Projects on Community Participation in Sustainable Forest Management (Bolivia, Ghana, Panama, Peru, Philippines and Togo), PD 48/98 Rev.1 (F), Evaluation Ex-Post, 41p.