This project focuses on local community capacity building and awareness raising, media awareness raising, coalitions and networking with Civil Society Organisations and social media advocacy to be able to mobilise public support for campaigning against the drivers of deforestation and to also contribute to public discourse on sustainable governance of forest landscapes.
Communities fringing Ghana’s forest reserves and in the off reserve areas have always been at the receiving end of illegal activities in the forest and on their farms. Either farmers’ consent is not sought when entering their farms, or Social Responsibility Agreements (SRA) and negotiated compensations are not paid when their crops are destroyed by felled trees or by roads constructed through their farms.