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FORESTS & LIVELIHOODS

Participatory Forest Management: Improving policy and institutional capacity for development (2006-2010)

Local Action Learning Projects

The local Action Learning Projects (ALPs) provided a small grant of US $4,000 to three community-based organisations to implement a small innovative project that would contribute contribute to learning in one or more of the following thematic areas:

1. strengthening civil society organisations (including community-based organisations and non-governmental organisations)
2. designing participatory institutional arrangements, selecting suitable management regimes, and developing and implementing management agreements involving state agencies, the private sector and community organisations
3. developing and sustaining forest-based businesses
4. community-based management of tourism based on forest resources

See NFPF Action Learning Projects guidelines for more information.

Twelve groups in the seven project countries were invited to submit proposals. Six groups submitted proposals with the following three chosen by a selection panel comprising members of the Forests and Livelihoods ALG and CANARI Associates:

• Nature Seekers, Trinidad
• Sundew Tourguiding Services
• Friends of the Environment, St Vincent

A key feature of this project component was that a mentor was allocated to each group, to observe, guide and support the group in realising project outcomes.

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