The Greater Gola Landscape
The Greater Gola Landscape Connecting Forest & People
Sheku Kamara Executive Director, CSSL [email protected] Nicolas Tubbs Tropical Forest Conservation Manager, RSPB [email protected]
Examples & Opportunities
Scope & Boundaries
Goals
•Vision: To act as a catalyst for peace, prosperity and national pride, ensuring that its globally important habitats, biodiversity, environmental services and wider landscape are conserved and that neighbouring communities are active environmental stewards of the natural resource base that underpins and enhances their livelihoods •Goal: Close the hunger gap •Targets : directly benefit biodiversity (60 Globally threatened) & livelihoods (>24000 people)
28-year Partnership
Policies to achieve our Goals •Internationally: Voluntary/Regulatory REDD; CITES; CBD; SDGs; Hyogo/Sendai DRR Framework; IFC PF6 (mitigation hierarchy); Consumer Goods Forum; commitments to zero deforestation (i.e Nestle); RSPO; certification commitments •Nationally: Plan for Prosperity; Bilateral Agreement (Norway-Liberia; EC’s REDD readiness); private-public partnership; Ebola recovery plans (incl resilient economy)
Overview of investment/commodity sourcing opportunities •Artisanal Small-scale Mining aka Responsible Mining •Small-holder Oil Palm •Agro forestry? Honey, Allan Blackia, etc
Info available to facilitate investments/sourcing partnerships
•45 Cocoa Farmer Groups •Cooperative Union incl. 6 mbr cooperatives, with a total membership of 2072 farmers •19% membership women; 38% aged
Sheku Kamara Executive Director, CSSL [email protected] Nicolas Tubbs Tropical Forest Conservation Manager, RSPB [email protected]
Examples & Opportunities
Scope & Boundaries
Goals
•Vision: To act as a catalyst for peace, prosperity and national pride, ensuring that its globally important habitats, biodiversity, environmental services and wider landscape are conserved and that neighbouring communities are active environmental stewards of the natural resource base that underpins and enhances their livelihoods •Goal: Close the hunger gap •Targets : directly benefit biodiversity (60 Globally threatened) & livelihoods (>24000 people)
28-year Partnership
Policies to achieve our Goals •Internationally: Voluntary/Regulatory REDD; CITES; CBD; SDGs; Hyogo/Sendai DRR Framework; IFC PF6 (mitigation hierarchy); Consumer Goods Forum; commitments to zero deforestation (i.e Nestle); RSPO; certification commitments •Nationally: Plan for Prosperity; Bilateral Agreement (Norway-Liberia; EC’s REDD readiness); private-public partnership; Ebola recovery plans (incl resilient economy)
Overview of investment/commodity sourcing opportunities •Artisanal Small-scale Mining aka Responsible Mining •Small-holder Oil Palm •Agro forestry? Honey, Allan Blackia, etc
Info available to facilitate investments/sourcing partnerships
•45 Cocoa Farmer Groups •Cooperative Union incl. 6 mbr cooperatives, with a total membership of 2072 farmers •19% membership women; 38% aged
