Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

RETA 6115: Poverty Reduction in Upland Communities in the Mekong Region through Improved Community and Industrial Forestry - Greater Mekong Subregion
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

This TA will assess the likely impacts of the changing forest industry and investment structure, and regional forest product trade patterns on the profitability and sustainability of community and industrial forestry.

Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam will be included with a special focus on the provinces that have high incidence of poverty and high vulnerability of forest-dependent communities, particularly poor ethnic minorities and women, to the changing economic and development environment.

The TA will:

• Identify and disseminate various poverty reduction approaches through community forestry (involving in-depth analysis of three community forestry sites per country);
• Identify and disseminate various poverty reduction approaches through industry forestry (involving in-depth analysis of three industrial forestry sites per country);
• Integrate the findings and recommendations into national poverty reduction strategies and poverty reduction partnership agreements in respective countries;
• Assess impact of changes in forest industry and investment structures and the forest product trade.

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