Objectives

The project’s objective is to strengthen the integrated management of Cameroon’s globally important forest landscapes in the Congo Basin to secure its biological integrity and increase economic and livelihood opportunities for forest dependent people.

Other

Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

The project will strengthen the governance and management frameworks for forest management in the Cameroon segments of 3 landscapes, with interventions that are anticipated to deliver socioeconomic benefits in 7 targeted councils or municipalities. These landscapes are multi-use systems that are essential to the culture, food security and livelihoods of forest-dwelling IPLCs who live within them. The ecosystems of the landscapes are also vital to residents of the landscapes, and people beyond, for numerous provisioning, regulation, cultural and supporting services they provide. The project will generate socio-economic benefits by maintaining and enhancing the resource base on which IPLCs in the southern forest belt of Cameroon rely. It will directly address competing demands on this resource base by progressing informed and inclusive land use planning in the councils of Ngoyla and Mintom, thereby helping to secure the access rights of IPLCs to critical resources and serving as an important learning opportunity for how access rights can be formally recognized and respected through the national land use planning framework. In all three of the targets landscapes the project will also support IPLCs in establishing modern and sustainable value chains for NTFPs, including through agreements with private sector operators. Simultaneously, the project will strengthen the development of an ecotourism value chain that engages IPLCs and the private sector in the Cameroon segment of the CMRC landscape. Furthermore, the project will support the establishment of a sustainable and socially-responsible value chain for ebony in Cameroon segment of the TRIDOM landscape. In addition to directly increasing income generation for target stakeholders, the Ebony Project will be used to develop recommendations on establishing models of public-private partnerships involving IPLCs. Each of these efforts aim to realize socio-economic benefits for rightsholders, while incentivizing them to manage their resources sustainably. As such, the project, will work to increase productive and sustainable employment for IPLCs in rural forest areas. The project seeks to achieve a 10% increase in income from enhanced value chains and public-private partnerships for at least 450 people (of which at least 50% women).

General

Bicknell's Thrush (BITH) is a neotropical migratory bird species whose population overwinters predominantly in the ..Dominican Republic where forest habitat is under threat from agricultural expansion and fire. With past NMBCA ..support, significant progress has been made in identifying and protecting critical habitat, managing that habitat, ..and restoring previously lost habitat for BITH in the DR. This project builds and expands upon those advances. ..This project will: 1) improve management of four key habitat areas by supporting park guard personnel, patrols, and ..boundary-marking 2) engage coffee and cacao farmers in Bird-Friendly production methods; 3) restore 73 hectares ..by planting more than 35,000 native trees and coffee plants, 3) monitor presence, and distribution of BITH and other ..Partners in Flight priority migratory species; and 4) conduct land tenure studies to explore opportunities for expanding ..land protection. With matching funds, we will: 1) hire 7 new park guards, and maintain 11 existing guards and two ..reserve managers; 2) build a new guard station 3) create a new 7.5 hectare private reserve; and 4) build capacity in ..our partner through construction of an ecotourism facility and a fundraising/educational event.

General

THIS PROJECT WILL SUPPORT THE RECenTLY DECLARED MANAB CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE AREA (ACUS), A 207,000 HA BIOLOGICAL CORRIDOR COMPRISING FOUR CONTIGUOUS COUNTIES IN COASTAL ECUADOR, BY STRenGTHenING AND IMPLEMenTING INCenTIVES FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO CONSERVE AND RESTORE TROPICAL FOREST. PROJECT ACTIVITIES WILL PROTECT AND CONNECT KEY REMNANTS OF HIGHLY THREATenED DECIDUOUS, SEMI DECIDUOUS, AND SEMI HUMID FOREST ALONG ECUADOR S CenTRAL COAST THAT PROVIDE HABITAT FOR MANY THREATenED SPECIES INCLUDING THE CRITICALLY enDANGERED EQUATORIAL CAPUCHIN (CEBUS AEQUATORIALIS) AND ESMERALDAS WOODSTAR (CHAETOCERCUS BERLEPSCHI). CONSERVATION EASEMenTS AND OTHER INCenTIVES FOR CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION WILL BE IMPLEMenTED, PROVIDING ALTERNATIVES TO DEFORESTATION AND UNSUSTAINABLE LAND USES, SUCH AS BURNING TO MAINTAIN CATTLE PASTURES AND MONOCULTURED CROPLAND, THE TWO MOST DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE THREATS TO THE REGION S FOREST COVER, BIODIVERSITY, AND CLIMATE. THE SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES ARE TO 1) ADVISE AND TRAIN COMMUNITY LEADERS AND LOCAL GOVERNMenT OFFICIALS ON THE APPLICATION OF NEW AND EXISTING POLICIES THAT SUPPORT LANDOWNERS WHO PROTECT AND RESTORE FOREST ON PRIVATE LANDS (INCLUDING CONSERVATION EASEMenTS, PROPERTY TAX EXONERATION, AND LAND MANAGEMenT ASSISTANCE) 2) IMPLEMenT CONSERVATION EASEMenTS WITH LOCAL L