Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (WNAD)

Managing Institute:
Department For International Development (WNAD)

Project Code: 025-502-004	Start Date: 01/08/1988	End Date: 01/12/1994
Commitment: £4,980,000	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Background:
Following years of decline the timber industry in Ghana was rehabilitated under the World Bank Export Rehabilitation Programme with associated co-financing. Timber is Ghana's third largest export. To maintain this in the long term a sustainable supply of raw material is needed. To provide data on the growing stack an DFID assisted forestry inventory project started in October 1985 and ran until March 1989. The project covered 500 000 ha of forest reserve, 40 percent of the total area under reserve in the Tropical High Forest Zone. The project provided details of the size of growing stock and the increment of the forest, thereby enabling a more accurate assessment of the annual allowable cut to be calculated. The current project comes under the auspices of the Tropical Forestry Action Plan. It will inventory the remaining Tropical High Forest, forests outside reserves and timber plantations as well as providing essential equipment to enable the Forestry Department to supervise felling, collect revenue and regenerate the forest. DFID-s project is one component of a 7 year World Bank project to rehabilitate the Forestry Sector. DFID participated in all the World Bank Missions and assisted in the design of the project as a whole. Its other elements will be financed by the World Bank, DANIDA and the Ghana Government.

Project Objectives:
To strengthen the capacity of forestry sector institutions to plan and manage forest production and conservation and to develop approaches to collaborative forest management.

Intended Outputs:
Inventory of 0.6m ha of forest reserve, to complete the inventory of all reserves commenced under the previous DFID Forestry Inventory Project (025-502-001). Mapping and inventory of the blocks of manageable forest situated outside the gazetted reserves. This will involve the coverage of some 6.4m ha of land. Inventory and detailed description of all forest plantations within the Tropical High Forest Zone, believed to total some 30 000 ha. Preparation of working plans for the effective management of the forest resources both with respect to the high forest and the plantations. Rehabilitation of the forest plantations.