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CONCERN National Community Forestry ProgrammeCommunity Forestry is a forest management strategy that meets the livelihood needs of communities, provides environmental and cultural benefits and supplies timber and non-timber forest products on a sustainable basis |
Community Forestry in CambodiaVirtually all rural people in Cambodia utilize forest resources to meet essential livelihood needs, including food, transportation, tools, and fuel. Forests are also an important component of people's spiritual and cultural traditions, While recent forest destruction threatens the livelihood security of rural people and the environment, Community Forestry provides an alternative forest management strategy to achieve sustainable forest management and to provide socioeconomic benefits to local people. CONCERN Community Forestry ProgrammeCONCERN's National Community Forestry Programme (NCFP) has three main strategies:
Through these activities, the NCFP seeks to improve the lives of the rural poor in Cambodia by building capacity to manage the resource base sustain ably and ensuring an appropriate distribution of forest benefits.
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Support to Local CommunitiesWith support from CONCERN's NCFP, villagers from 71 rural villages in Kompong Chhnang and Pursat provinces are actively involved in Community Forestry activities for the benefit of the entire community. Since 1991 programme support has included training, technical forestry advice, and facilitating community organizing, development of forest management plans, inter-village coordination of Community Forest management and government recognition of Community Forests. CONCERN's NCFP also works with 23 schools, 35 pagodas, one Women's Center, one Health Center and local NGOs in Community Forestry education, tree nursery construction and seedling production.
Non-Timber Forest Products
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Training in Community ForestryCONCERN's NCFP supports the Cambodia Community Forestry Training Team (CAMOOFTT) to develop human resources and disseminate Community Forestry concepts and methods to NGO, government and United Nations Community Forestry practitioners. CAMCOFTT is an innovative training team, composed of representatives of the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Royal University of Agriculture and CONCERN.
CAMCOFTT conducts a 2-week training course in concepts and methods of Community Forestry. 70% of participants implement their own projects after training. Kingdom of Cambodia
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Support to Policy DevelopmentThe development and implementation of appropriate policies and laws is crucial to ensure sustainable management of forest resources and appropriate distribution of forest benefits. The NCFP has been instrumental in facilitating network meetings, working groups, workshops and other initiatives to support policy and legislative developments that are appropriate to the needs of forest resource dependent rural poor. CONCERNCONCERN is a non-denominational NOO based in Dublin, Ireland dedicated to the relief, assistance and advancement of poor people in less developed countries of the world. CONCERN has been working in Cambodia since 1990. CONCERN's vision is of a Cambodia where there is peace and freedom and where people no longer live in poverty. CONCERN'S experience enables the design and implementation of programmes that meet people's current and future needs. CONCERN implements four national programmes in Cambodia:
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Contact InformationCONCERN Country Director or P.O. Box 485 |
National Community Forestry Programme Financial Supporters
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