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Participatory Management for Community-based Avoided Deforestation in São Tomé Obô Natural Park

Grantee Name: RSET - ASSOCIAÇÃO TÉCNICO-CIENTÍFICA PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO

Hotspot
Guinean Forests of West Africa
Location
Sao Tome and Principe
Amount
$296,000
Dates
Jun 2018 – Dec 2021
Keywords
Access and Benefit Sharing, Buffer zones, Community-based conservation, Conservation finance, Protected Areas

Strengthen participatory community-based management of Obô National Park and its buffer zone to improve governance through the integration of stakeholders in planning and decision-making, the production of data for management, and the access to financial flows for sustainability interventions via the implementation of a REDD + pilot project.

Strategic Direction :

1 Empower local communities to engage in sustainable management of 40 priority sites and consolidate ecological connectivity at the landscape scale

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