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…
FC SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TIMBER RIGHTS FEES: FARMERS & LANDOWNERS PROPOSE
Timber rights fees of timber harvested from farms should be given to farmers and landowners instead of Forestry Commission (FC), farmers and landowners from across the country have proposed. According…
CSO’S CAPACITIES BUILT ON ADVOCACY AND POLICY INFLUENCING
18/8/2017 Members of Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) have received training on advocacy and policy influencing. The two-day capacity building exercise, which was organised by Forest Watch Ghana with support from…
CIVIC RESPONSE ORGANISES LEARNING AND SHARING TRIP TO INDONESIA
8th August, 2017. A team of Ghanaian representatives from the Ministry of Lands & Natural Resources, Forestry Commission, Private Sector and Civil Society have commenced a three-day learning and sharing…
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…
TACKLING ILLEGAL LOGGING IN GHANA: WHY CIVIL SOCIETY IS GENERATING PRESSURE TO DELIVER A VPA
I have just returned from a two-week policy tour of Europe, visiting decision makers working on the EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan in Belgium, Germany,…
BREXIT, FLEGT-VPA, & GHANA: UK MUST REMAIN COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING FOREST GOVERNANCE REFORM!
Great Britain is one of Ghana’s strategic development partners and our political partnership is over 200 years old. For this reason and Britain’s own reputation, as a support for international…