Tropical Forest Trust has won World Bank's global Development Marketplace competetion to run a US$307,540 project that will exploit radio-based communications system to involve local people in Congo Basic in sustainable forest management.
The project will set up a radio station that will empower the indigenous communities in the Congo Basin to involve them in strategic forest management.
For a long time, minority indigenous communities in the Congo Basin, and in particular Pygmy communities, have been discriminated against from exploiting forest resources.
Education and capacity-building of the local communities in managing the radio station will be the key activities of this first-ever indigenous forest peoplesÂ’ language radio station
in Central Africa.
As part of the project, portable radios will be distributed within the community to enable their participation, and train them to use GPS to make maps which will identify places of importance to them.
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