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The solutions

Maintaining forest cover

In a context of strong anthropic and agricultural pressure, it is important to maintain the connectivity between these different forests. «Forest corridors» supported by the PAPFor programme plays this important role. The programme works with local authorities and neighbouring communities to reforest the area between the Bossou forest and the Integral Reserve. Out of 250 ha, 50 ha have already (...)

Support to protected areas

PAPFor provides direct support to the three agencies responsible for managing protected areas. An essential support is to establish or update a Management Plan that serves as a basis for the interventions of these agencies, in collaboration with the local populations. PAPFor also supports training in the use of management tools such as IMET (Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool). These (...)

Participatory community management

One of the major challenges of the PAPfor programme is to convince the populations living in the vicinity of the forests to take ownership of the governance of natural resources and to adopt a sustainable development system. This system should enable income generation for communities and benefits from ecosystem services based on good integrated conservation practices, within the framework of (...)