Ghana’s forest has been dwindling rapidly at such an alarming rate over the last few years. A 2019 report...
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Civic Response has trained 50 forest-fringe community members in forest law, monitoring, and advocacy. The 3-days training which took...
Civic Response has embarked on a two-month radio sensitization campaign across the country on community based Real Time Monitoring...
Civic Response, with support from its partner Fern, has organised a capacity building workshop for journalists from across the...
A member of FWG, James Saaka, has called for a ban on commercial charcoal production in Ghana. This, according...
Fifty (50) community representatives have been trained to undertake community level forest monitoring. The 3-days training which was organised...
Thirty-five (35) forest-fringe community representatives have received legality awareness training in Accra. The 3-days training which was organised by...
Twenty (20) community forest monitors have been re-trained to undertake forest monitoring and reporting activities. The 20 are part...
A second training on TVD legality verification audits has been organised in Accra for selected civil society representatives. The...
Director for the Timber Validation Department of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Chris Beeko, has made a recommendation for definition...
Civic Response, in collaboration with the Forestry Commission of Ghana, has launched the Ghana Timber Transparency Portal. The portal...
Twenty-five (25) community representatives have been trained to undertake community level forest monitoring. The training which was organised by...
Timber rights fees of timber harvested from farms should be given to farmers and landowners instead of Forestry Commission...
18/8/2017 Members of Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) have received training on advocacy and policy influencing. The two-day capacity building...
8th August, 2017. A team of Ghanaian representatives from the Ministry of Lands & Natural Resources, Forestry Commission, Private...
Ghana would soon be importing timber from neighbouring countries, CEO of Domestic Lumber Trade Association of Ghana (DOLTA), Mr....
Civic Response has commenced training on TVD legality verification audits for selected civil society representatives. The training which comes...
I have just returned from a two-week policy tour of Europe, visiting decision makers working on the EU Forest...
Great Britain is one of Ghana’s strategic development partners and our political partnership is over 200 years old. For...
The galamsey menace has become a social canker which needs the attention of all well-meaning Ghanaians. It is therefore...
Galamsey operations over the years have destroyed most of our agriculture lands, as well as polluted many water bodies...
Over the last two decades, companies in search of vast tracts of available land for agriculture, mining, and other...
Ghana’s forests and the people who depend on them face an illegal logging and mining epidemic. The country’s illegal...
An international conference on Independent Forest Monitoring has been held in Accra by Civic Response. The two-day conference, which...