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Forest Governance

Project Affected Communities Strengthened Relationship with Mano Oil Palm Plantation after Years of Neglect

Tue, 08/26/2025 - 12:00
Demmah Town, a project-affected community (PAC) in Zepeh Clan,

 

 

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CSO-OPWG Letter on RSPO CP's Decisions

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 12:00
Plantation of Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL)
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Civil Society and Communities' Expectations for a mutually beneficial EU Forest Partnership for Liberia

Fri, 05/16/2025 - 12:00
The NGO coalition of Liberia, comprising of NGOs working in the forest sector and forest dependent communities.
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SDI, Partners Make Significant progress in CBFM Project Implementation

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 12:00
Participants post for Group Photo after the meeting in Gbeapo

The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and other implementing partners have made significant progress in the implementation of the project titled: “Community-Based Forestry and Protected Area Management (CBFM): Boosting Biodiversity Conservation and Improving Livelihoods of Forest-Fringe/Forest-Dependent Communities and Groups in Liberia.”

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SDI and FCI Enlighten Citizens in Gbi Forest Communities on Blue Carbon Deal and Carbon Credit Market

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 12:00
Participants posed for photo in Freeman, Gbi Chiefdom on October 30, 2023

As the saying goes that an informed mind is an enlightened mind, which is exactly what the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) have done for citizens in the Gbi Forest Communities about the carbon market and the Blue Carbon deal.

The government of Liberia is currently at an advanced stage of agreement with a United Arab Emirates-based (UAE) firm for carbon offset development. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was entered into on March 25, 2023.

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SDI and FCI Pay Assessment Visit to Gheegbah#1 Authorized Forest Community in Grand Bassa to Document Reasons for low Women Participation in CFMBs

Wed, 03/15/2023 - 12:00
Participants group photo along with SDI and FCI Facilitators

As part of efforts in documenting reasons for low women participation in Community Forest Management Body (CFMBs), the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) on March 9-13, 2023 paid an assessment visit to Gheegbah#1 Authorized Forest Community in Grand Bassa District#2. 

The assessment was to understand why women's representation is low in CFMBs leadership and to identify ways to increase their participation in decision-making. 

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SDI and Liberian Partners Receive Delegation from Siemenpuu Foundation based in Finland

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 12:00
Delegation from Siemenpuu Foundation based in Finland

The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) through its Forest Governance Program (FGP) Monday, on March 13, 2023, welcomed a delegation from Siemenpuu Foundation based in Finland.

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Forest Issues: An analysis of media coverage June 2021 to May 2022

Thu, 12/01/2022 - 12:00
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SDI_2022 Forest Community Case Study-Gibi

Fri, 04/08/2022 - 12:00
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SDI Briefing Paper 09: A Decade Later - Time for a New Approach to Community Forestry in Liberia

Mon, 06/10/2019 - 12:00

The Policy Brief argues for an approach that situates forest and forest resources at the center of sustainable development efforts in forest communities. It proposes, for example that community forestry should be oriented towards social empowerment and community-owned enterprise development, and move away from the rent-seeking approach in which communities look to logging companies because they promise jobs, roads, schools, clinics, and clean water.

 

 

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