Community-Based Forest Management Programs to Enhance Local Ownership

TLDR

• As Tanzania implements Vision 2050 and advances its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, financing Nature-based Solutions should become a national development priority.
• Expanding Community-Based Forest Management and Joint Forest Management programmes can strengthen local ownership while creating income opportunities through sustainable timber harvesting, non-timber forest products.
• Tanzania possesses vast forest resources capable of generating carbon credits through avoided deforestation, reforestation and sustainable forest management.
• Funds raised through green bonds could finance watershed restoration, forest rehabilitation, climate-smart agriculture and sustainable land management.
• Community participation remains the cornerstone of successful Nature-based Solutions.