Today, TNC formalized agreements with Community Forest representatives to collaborate with, and provide Technical Support for 11 Authorized Community Forests totaling 54347 hectares.
TNC will support the development and implementation of Management Plans, Enterprise Development, Mentoring for WORTH Groups, Law Enforcement to combat Ilegal Wildlife Trade and raise awareness, facilitate market linkages and support agroforestry best practices, provide learning exchanges platforms, strengthen bio monitoring, develop systems for monitoring livelihood initiative impacts, support Landscape level coordination with Protected Areas managements, civil society and government and raise funds together.
All of this will be implemented through the CFMB hub model which will be expanded to additional 5 community forests targeting 100,000 hectares in the next 3 years.
