Civic Response has trained 50 forest-fringe community members in forest law, monitoring, and advocacy. The 3-days training which took place in Accra in two instalments in March 2020 aimed at equipping forest fringe communities with…
Our focus in 2017 was on advocacy campaign against mining in forest reserves. A review of the guidelines for mining in forest reserves was initiated by the Chamber of Mines through the Environmental Protection Agency…
"The current controversy surrounding Exton Cubic Group Limited’s mineral licence in the Tano Offin Forest Reserve is a big embarrassment to government and completely exposes the loopholes in the mineral rights allocation. This needless confusion…
A year after Civic Response published a documentary on the Impact of APSD Plantation on Communities near Atebubu in the Bono East Region of Ghana, residents say they still suffer human rights abuses at the…
Ghanaian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the environmental sector have urged the European Commission not to re-tabled confiscated timber as a precondition for Ghana’s Voluntary Partnership Agreement(VPA) readiness. This was contained in a press release…
Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the environmental sector are urging the Government of Ghana to rescind its decision to cede portions of the Achimota forest reserve. President Akufo-Addo under Executive Instrument 144 has lifted…
Elvis Oppong-Mensah, a Programmes Officer with Civic Response has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to reconsider government’s latest decision on the Achimota Forest Reserve. While government has through Lands and Natural Resources Samuel…
Ghana has for years remained a key exporter of timber. However, stakeholders have been struggling to deal with illegal felling of trees, which made timber exports from Ghana fall short of the European Union’s guidelines.…
Civic Response has resumed community visits following a long break due to COVID-19 restrictions. The community visits which took place in August 2021, had Civic Response visit 49 communities in 15 districts across the country.…
Civic Response organised a capacity update and lessons sharing workshop for community monitors and verifiers. The workshop which took place in October, 2021 in Accra, was attended by sixty-eight (68) community monitors and verifiers from…