Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (DFIDEA)

Managing Institute:
Department For International Development (DFIDEA)

Project Code: 031-502-008	Start Date: 01/12/1991	End Date: 01/01/1994
Commitment: £4,860,000	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Background:
The 1989-93 Development Plan recognises the threat posed by deforestation for catchment protection, wildlife, biodiversity, agriculture and tourism. The project will support the national objectives of developing and enforcing guidelines for the sustainable exploitation of forest resources, providing for the effective management and conservation of forests, promoting social forestry, and improving forest cover mapping and monitoring. The project is also supportive of the forest programmes outlined in the District Development Plans for the five Districts involved in the pilot project activities.

Project Objectives:
The wider objectives are to conserve the biodiversity , ecological services and productivity of indigenous closed forests, and to improve the welfare of poor people hitherto dependent on the forest for their livelihood. The immediate objectives are: to prepare conservation management recommendations to be included in the Forestry Masterplan To prepare pilot projects for the Mau, Kakamega and Arabuko-Sokoke forests including the inventory of all the natural forest To improve forest protection, and begin a process of participatory conservation in these areas To set up a monitoring system covering all indigenous forests and, To strengthen local research institutions.

Intended Outputs:
Ecological, timber, non-timber and socio-economic inventories. Ranked conservation priorities. Forest management recommendations. Forest conservation and socio-economic proposals. Environmental monitoring and evaluation baseline. GIS forest monitoring system. Report for Master Plan and Forestry IV Mid-Term Review. Applied research reports. Increased patrol coverage and frequency. Increased seedling output. Improved FD plantation. Trained inventory and research staff.