Civic Response, a natural resource governance advocacy organisation, has begun a nationwide training programme for nearly 1,000 Social Responsibility Agreement (SRA) committee members from 150 forest fringe communities to help them detect and prevent the…
Seventy-three Forest Services Division (FSD) District Managers of the Forestry Commission and their assistants across the country have undergone a training workshop on how to populate and implement the Social Responsibility Agreement (SRA) portal. The…
Forest communities across Ghana received only GH¢4.8 million out of GH¢6.8 million in Social Responsibility Agreement (SRA) payments due them between 2020 and 2025, with no explanation yet provided for the huge gap recorded on…
There are growing calls for the Forestry Commission (FC) of Ghana to increase the Social Responsibility Agreement paid to forest fringe communities from the current 5% to 20%. This came to light during Civic Responses'…
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) has instructed the Forestry Commission (FC) to stop the issuance of Special Permits for logging in Ghana’s forests. This was disclosed by Mr. Musah Abu-Juam, Technical Director…
Civic Response has trained 15 enumerators and 5 supervisors to carry out a VPA impact survey. The 4-day training workshop which took place in Accra in March 2021 aimed at equipping the data collectors with…
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…
Civic Response has embarked on a two-month radio sensitization campaign across the country on community based Real Time Monitoring (RTM). The communication action which commenced from the first week of February 2020 involves raising forest…