Terminal evaluation of the project "Sustainable Forest Lands Management and Conservation under an Ecosocial Approach"

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Terminal evaluation of the project "Sustainable Forest Lands Management and Conservation under an Ecosocial Approach"

Project code: GCP/VEN/011/GFF - GEF ID: 5410

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 148 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title Project Evaluation Series

Series number No. 27/2023

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Synopsis (short abstract) This project was funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Its objectives were to reverse the degradation of forest ecosystems, recover forest areas under degradation processes, mainly in the Imataca Forest Reserve, and promote the institutionalization of these activities in forest management at the national level. The project made a significant contribution in terms of generation and systematization of information; methodological developments to estimate carbon emissions, reservoirs and sequestration, and compilation of information for the National Integrated Forest Information System; strengthen institutional and community capacities, and promote the application of sustainable forest management practices under a co-management scheme. Important co-benefits were also generated, such as the creation of the Tukupu Community Social Property Company, which is the first Indigenous Peoples' forestry company established in the country, and the proposed Presidential Decree for the Creation of the National Forest Co-management System.

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FAO. 2023. Terminal evaluation of the project “Sustainable Forest Lands Management and Conservation under an EcosocialApproach”. Project Evaluation Series, 27/2023. Rome.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc9020en

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