Community Forests and Land Rights
Community forests: from theory to practice
What does a community-managed forest look like in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)? That is precisely the question that the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and our partners are currently working to answer through our Community Forests (CF) project, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID). In February 2016, the DRC government passed landmark community … Read more
Le nouvel élan de la foresterie communautaire en République Centrafricaine
La République Centrafricaine (RCA) dispose désormais d’un cadre juridique permettant d’initier la mise en oeuvre du concept de foresterie communautaire, ce qui représente une avancée politique et légale significative.
Community Forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This brochure provides information about a three-year project implemented by the Rainforest Foundation UK and its partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project will implement an experimental approach to community-based natural resource management in order to secure forest-dwellers’ rights to land and natural resources and to ensure that forests in DRC are … Read more
Roundtable: Group helps set the course for DRC’s first community forests
This story is part of a series on RFUK’s work on community forests in the Congo Basin. For more information on our work on sustainable community forestry, click here. A second national roundtable in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took place last month [1], where 90 stakeholders from across government, civil society and the donor … Read more
Briefing on major legal development on community forests in DRC
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently adopted a new legal regulation that could allow millions of its forest-dependent people to protect and manage their forest lands – some 14 years after the concept was first introduced in the 2002 Forest Code. A new briefing by the Rainforest Foundation UK and Reseau Ressources … Read more
Community Forests in DRC: Towards Equitable and Sustainable Forest Management
Building on RFUK’s 2014 briefing on DRC’s decree 14/018 fixing the modalities for the attribution of local ‘community forest concessions’, this document considers some of the key features, challenges and opportunities emerging from this legislation.
PRESS RELEASE: Tens of millions of hectares of Africa’s rainforests could benefit from local community control
A new landmark regulation that could allow millions of forest-dependent people to protect and manage their local rainforest, and potentially help lift them out of poverty, has been adopted by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Until now, forest communities in DRC have had no legal right to claim forest lands they … Read more
Rethinking Community-based Forest Management in the Congo Basin (Executive Summary)
This summary of our in-depth study considers the constraints and opportunities for community-based forest management in the region with a careful examination of indigenous and customary systems of forest resource management and rights.
Rethinking Community-based Forest Management in the Congo Basin
This study considers the constraints and opportunities for community-based forest management in the region with a careful examination of indigenous and customary systems of forest resource management and rights.
New Community Forest Decree in the Democratic Republic of Congo
On August 2nd 2014, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) passed into law decree 14/1018 fixing the modalities for attributing local ‘community forest concessions’, enacting Article 22 of 2002 Forest Code. This briefing considers some of the potential opportunities and risks for the DRC’s forests arising from this new legislation, as well … Read more