The NGOs Conservation Justice (CJ) and Brainforest, in collaboration with the Provincial Directorate of Water and Forests of Ogooué-Ivindo, organized two strengthening workshops on March 26 and 27 in Makokou, and on March 29 and 30, 2024 in Mekambo. capacities aimed at equipping populations impacted by logging in the different localities of this northeastern province on the management of the Local Development Fund (FDL) and community forests in the departments of Ivindo and Zadié.
These training courses, indicates a press release, have made it possible to raise awareness and inform stakeholders in the forestry sector on the themes which most often are a source of conflict within rural communities. The themes discussed revolved around Contractual Specifications (CCC), the Project Management and Monitoring Committee (CGSP), Local Development Funds (FDL) and Community Forests (FC).
“This workshop has a dual objective. The first is to strengthen the capacities of populations impacted by logging, in order to enable them to better manage the local development fund, so that projects are increasingly monitored, and that the process of signing notebooks of contractual charges are well known by the communities on the one hand. And, on the other hand, the workshop consists of giving the populations as many tools as possible to enable them to better manage community forests,” explained Colonel Célestin Ndinga Gnama, Provincial Director of Water and Forests of Ogooué- Ivindo.
For Adélaïde Chantal NGOVET wife NKOGHE, Prefect of the Ivindo department, also president of the CSGP, this sharing of experience remains more than necessary to instill a new dynamic in the relationships which link the communities to their partners, therefore in development localities.
In Gabon, these technical questions are part of the social mechanisms put in place by the State to allow communities to drive their development destiny by themselves. Contractual specifications (CCC) are in fact contracts signed between companies and village communities concerned by logging in a given area. As for community forests, their development allows communities to have a set of means enabling them to develop income-generating activities.
For their part, the populations congratulated this initiative which according to Elie-Nloh Hubert-Bled, Chief of Canton Ntang-Louli, also president of the Ebyeng Edzuameniene association (A2E), “will help avoid confusion”. Because according to him, not everyone masters the workings of community forestry. “Today, the workshop enlightened us on many things to avoid slippages,” he underlined. A position shared by the communities of other villages who expressed the wish to see this initiative renewed.
Source : CJ
2024-04-04 11:16:43
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