• Programmes
  
  
• Thematic Programmes
  
  
  • Forests and livelihoods
    
    
• Forest and Livelihoods Regional Conference
  
  
• Improving policy and institutional capacity for participatory forest management
  
  
• Practices and policies that improve forest management and the livelihoods of the rural poor
  
  
• Building capacity for participatory forest management for good governance in the Caribbean region
  
  
• The sustainable forest management planning project
  
  
• Regional knowledge sharing initiative on improved governance and influencing policy for community forestry and sustainable forest-based livelihoods
  
  
• Capacity building for watershed management stakeholders in Trinidad and Tobago
  
  
• Technical Assistance Projects
  
  
• Coastal and marine governance and livelihoods
  
  
• Strategy Programmes
  
  
• Issue Programmes

FORESTS & LIVELIHOODS

Practices and policies that improve forest management and the livelihoods of the rural poor in the insular Caribbean (2007-2010).

This regional project is funded by the European Commission under its Programme on Tropical Forests and other Forests in Developing Countries. It was designed and is being implemented by CANARI in conjunction with the Forestry Departments of the eight project countries: Barbados, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Christopher (Kitts) and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Project goal
To maximise the contribution of sustainable forest management to the rural poor of the insular Caribbean.

The following are the main components of the project :

• Forests and Livelihoods Action learning group
• National workshops
• Case studies
• Exchange visits
• Multisectoral regional workshop
• Regional workshop (co-funded with FAO)
• Communication Products

See also: CANARI 2011. Facilitating participatory natural resource management: A toolkit for Caribbean managers. Laventille: CANARI.