Mapping in the Congo Basin – Forest protection

Shoa undertook an independent evaluation of the project “Participatory mapping in the Congo Basin as a means of Forest protection”, funded by DFID and implemented by the Rainforest Foundation. The project aims to promote recognition of communities’ rights to access to, control over, and use of forests in the legislative, political and strategic processes of three Congo Basin Countries (Central African Republic, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville). Forest communities, supported CSOs and government staff in each of the three target countries are meant to have the capacity and resources to accurately map community forest land tenure and to make use of the data thus compiled in taking and influencing decisions related to forests and forest communities.