Forests and Community

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The project development objective of the Forests and Community Project for Argentina is to improve forest management; and increase access to markets and basic services by small forest producers (including indigenous people and campesinos) in selected Northern Provinces. This project is comprised of five components. (1) The sustainable livelihoods component will improve the livelihood of small forest producers and promote sustainable forest landscape management, with special emphasis on the Chaco Ecoregion, through: (a) the preparation of Integrated Community Plans (PICs); (b) the implementation of PICs; and (c) the design and implementation of subprojects. (2) The natural forest management and civil society component will support carrying out of a national forest and climate awareness campaign to expand and maintain support for the implementation of the Forest Law through the establishment and/or expansion of existing community radio to distribute information on sustainable natural resources management, climate resilience and indigenous rights. (3) The skills development and technology transfer component will finance strengthening the technical, managerial skills of: (i) indigenous and campesino community members; (ii) small forest producers; and (iii) technical service providers and extension agents working in the Selected Northern Provinces, through the provision of short training courses including both classroom and community level instruction and financing of scholarship grants. (4) The forest monitoring component will support the expanding Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development (SAyDS) technical and institutional capacity to manage forest information and monitor changes in forest cover. (5) The project management and impact monitoring component will finance: (i) provision of support for the technical and administrative coordination of the project, (ii) development of an impact evaluation system to identify changes in outcomes directly attributable to Project activities and (iii) development and implementation of a grievance redress mechanism to identify and resolve Project related grievances.