Forest Governance Campaign
This campaign area focuses on enhancing greater democratic stakeholder participation in forest policymaking and management, particularly for forest dependent communities. This is to promote fair access, equitable benefits and greater democratic participation of communities in forest decision making.
It also seeks to improve transparency forest management information including in revenues and accountability of forest managers to the communities that own forests.
This campaign uses the FLEGT-VPA as the main vehicle for realising the changes. This campaign builds on the advocacy-drive forest governance monitoring system to also monitor, report, and advocate for improvement in information to local communities, benefits to local communities and responsibility of loggers to communities. The campaign also addresses the drivers of corruption fuelling illegal logging in the forest sector.
Forest and Climate Campaign
Forest and Mining Campaign
Mining is a great driver of deforestation and environmental degradation. This campaign area involves fighting against mining particularly in forest reserves, campaigning against bad mining practices, and protecting the rights of communities affected by mining among others.
Forest and Development
This campaign area focuses on promoting better forest management to ensure sustainable growth of forest dependent communities and the entire country at large. The campaign also focuses on revenues from forest, and how forests links with other sectors of the Ghanaian economy.