Community liaison activities in three villages in the edge of the Kakamega forest reserve
1992
Opole, M.
This report provides findings of liaison work carried out by Monica Opole in three villages on the south-western edge of the Kakamega Forest Reserve. This works objectives were: to gain a more precise picture of the way in which people within the selected sample villages use and depend upon the Forest and associated trends and constraints, including identification of differences between households directly bordering the forest and those further away, yet still win the targeted villages, to work directly with members of the identified villages to explore and plan workable and acceptable ways of reducing all elements of those Forest uses which are illegal, unsustainable of damaging to the forest resources, to identify reasonable requirements for this to be achieved both on the part of the individuals/communities involved and on the part of Kakamega Forest management and potential associated rural development activity, to liaise throughout with FD, KWS, Pilot Project and other personnel as relevant to ensure that local discussion with communities and provisional planning activity take place throughout within the parameters for forest conservation as identified by the Pilot Project, and to present a report to KIFCON advising it on all the above and recommending lessons learnt and ways to proceed with these and other villages in community-based with these and other villages in community-based forest management planning.
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Эту запись предоставил Kenya Forestry Research Institute