The goal of PROSPER is to introduce, operationalize and refine appropriate models for community management of forest resources for local self-governance and enterprise development in targeted areas of the country. This will be accomplished by improving human, legal, regulatory and institutional capacities in environmental awareness and wise stewardship of natural resources with the aim of extending community-based forest management as well as community-based forestry and agricultural enterprise development throughout Liberia. In implementation sites in rural Liberia, PROSPER will focus on approaches that increase the knowledge and capacity required to implement the legal and policy requirements for sustainable forest management; protect and enhance land tenure and property rights; promote environmental awareness and compliance; and ensure biodiversity conservation on the part of communities and their development partners. PROSPER will also share its community-level experiences with national-level decision making actors and processes in order to improve national-level policy development for community-based forest management; community-based agricultural and forest enterprises; and land tenure and property rights.
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