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In 1996, the Government of
Ghana launched a Forestry Development Master Plan
spanning a period of fourteen years (1996 –
2020). The Forestry Development Master Plan was
to guide the implementation of an earlier launched
(1994) document, the National
Forest and Wildlife Policy. The Policy had the
following key objectives
- Management and enhancement
of Ghana’s permanent estate of forest and
wildlife resources;
- Promotion of viable and efficient
forest-based industries, particularly in the secondary
and tertiary processing;
- Promotion of public awareness
and involvement of rural people in forestry and
wildlife conservation;
- Promotion of research-based
and technology-led forestry and wildlife management,
utilization and development, and;
- Development of effective
capability at national, regional and district
levels for sustainable management of forest and
wildlife resources.
To enable the Government implement
the commitment made in the Forestry Development
Master Plan, resources, the drive and focus of activities
are being channeled through a multi-donor assisted
programme called the Natural
Resources Management Programme (NRMP).
Following the changes in the institutional
framework of the sector, FSDP
2 which is a sequel to the FSDP 1 was initiated
in 2000 to ...
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