DEFINE LEGAL COCOA – CHRIS BEEKO

Director for the Timber Validation Department of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Chris Beeko, has made a recommendation for definition of legal cocoa in Ghana. According to him, this was a…

GHANA LAUNCHES TIMBER TRANSPARENCY PORTAL

Civic Response, in collaboration with the Forestry Commission of Ghana, has launched the Ghana Timber Transparency Portal. The portal is a web interface which makes information on logging in Ghana…

CIVIC RESPONSE TRAINS COMMUNITY FOREST MONITORS

Twenty-five (25) community representatives have been trained to undertake community level forest monitoring. The training which was organised by Civic Response in Larteh in the Eastern Region aimed at building…

GHANA TO SOON IMPORT TIMBER

Ghana would soon be importing timber from neighbouring countries, CEO of Domestic Lumber Trade Association of Ghana (DOLTA), Mr. Kofi Afreh-Boakye has hinted. He said this is in order to…

CIVIC RESPONSE BEGINS TRAINING FOR CSO OBSERVERS

Civic Response has commenced training on TVD legality verification audits for selected civil society representatives. The training which comes in two-fold – classroom-based training, and field-based training – is aimed…