Report
Stocktaking: Status of Legal Tenure Recognition of Rights and the Role Community Territorial Mapping – Gabon
This case study on Gabon finds that there is an urgent need to review community use of forest resources to increase government knowledge of community use but also to capture community knowledge for future management.
The Situation of the Forest Peoples of the Central African Republic
This study is the product of several field missions to meet indigenous forest peoples in different areas of south-western CAR, including Bagandou, Bimbo, Mongoumba, Mbata and Bilolo in the prefectures of Lobaye, Ombella Mpoko and Sangha-Mbaéré.
The use of non-timber forest products in the Congo Basin: Constraints and opportunities
This report documents research and data on the use of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) from the six countries of the Congo Basin: Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Republic of Congo or Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.
Resource rights and timber concessions: Integrating local peoples’ land-use practices in forest management in the Congo Basin
This paper presents an overview of land-use practices in the Congo Basin, as described in the literature, and then considers these in relation to forest management planning
Concessions to poverty: The environmental, social and economic impacts of industrial logging concessions in Africa’s rainforests
This study is focused on the situation in DRC, but draws lessons from other cases across West and Central Africa. Evidence for the economic benefits of industrial tropical logging is very scant. Rather, the evidence suggests that the industrial timber concession model is inherently anti-poor.
The rights of the indigenous people in the Republic of Congo: An analysis of the national context plus recommendations
This report presents an executive summary plus recommendations from civil society with regard to the “Law on the promotion and protection of Congo’s Pygmies”.
The rights of the Pygmy People in the Republic of Congo: International Legal Context
This report sets forth the broad contours of the international human rights regime as it concerns indigenous peoples, and thus the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville’s responsibilities under international law, in the context of the current initiative to develop legislative protection for the Congolese Baka “Pygmy” peoples.
Les droits des peuples autochtones en République du Congo: Analyse du contexte national et recommandations (RAPPORT SOMMAIRE)
Ce rapport sommaire était élaboré comme contribution de la société civile à l’élaboration de la « Loi portant promotion et protection des Pygmées au Congo » en la République du Congo
Divided Forests: Towards fairer zoning of forest lands
This report provides a review of macro-level forest zoning as a tool for forest management and land-use planning, in order to identify some of the lessons that have been, or should be learnt. The experiences of Australia, Brazil, Cameroon and Indonesia are considered. The successes and failures of each of these case studies are identified, … Read more
Broken Promises: How World Bank Group policies fail to protect forests and forest peoples’ rights
This is a collaborative report published with RFUK and seven other organisations. As the articles in this special issue show, the World Bank has broken several key promises and, sadly, the concerns the authors had about the World Bank’s new Forests Policy turn out to have been all too well founded.