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Forest Income for Environmental Sustainability (FIFES)

(Liberia): Forest Incomes for Environmental Sustainability (FIFES) will use FY17 funds to address the threats and drivers of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Liberia-weak governance, slash and burn agriculture, and a dearth of livelihoods in forest-dependent communities. Development of value chains such as cocoa and forest honey will increase the resiliency of communities and discourage illicit charcoal production, bush meat trade, and artisanal mining. FIFES will base its activities in 11 Community Forests that have completed the nine-step formation process with Forest Development Authority (FDA). Forest governance will be strengthened through a sub-agreement with Pact, sensitizing Community Forest Management Bodies (CFMBs) to their duties and rights under Liberia's Community Rights Law. FIFES will partner with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to train CFMBs in forest inventory and biodiversity monitoring skills.

Objectives for Liberia: Planned Outcomes: Monitor beneficiaries to assess their awareness and understanding of forest biodiversity as well as monitor the capacity of local partners and organizations to provide support for forest-dependent communities.; Work with 11 community forests to improve the surrounding local communities’ ability to manage the forests in a sustainable and economically beneficial manner through increasing the productivity of existing value chains and promoting good governance of the management bodies for each forest.; In 5-10 years, only community based entrepreneurs, working with the Community Forest, and using local labor, sustainably harvest and mill (either directly, or through agreements) timber harvested from community forests and other community lands on a pre-order basis for buyers in urban centers. No outside actors harvest community timber, and no community members harvest trees without Community Forest approval.

Project ID

US-GOV-1-AID-669-A-16-00002

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Liberia

100.00

Organisations

Accountable

U.S. Agency for International Development

Extending

U.S. Agency for International Development

Funding

U.S. Agency for International Development

Implementing

Agriculture Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance

CRS code	%
Basic life skills for youth and adults (11230)	6.38
Business support services and institutions (25010)	8.64
Bio-diversity (41030)	84.98