 Community-based Integrated Forest Resources Conservation and Management (COMIFORM) is a project that works with communities surrounding the Maasai Mau Forest in Kenya to introduce a shift from unsustainable land practices to sustainable management supported by forest conservation, payment for ecosystem services and income generation through organized alternative livelihood activities.
The specific objective for the project is to halt further deforestation and promote reforestation primarily within and around the Maasai Mau Forest and the water catchment areas of Lake Natron and the Mara and Ewaso Ngiro rivers. This will be reached through decreasing the pressure on the remaining indigenous forests by providing alternative sources of income to the forest adjacent communities and through the restoration of the forest cover within the project area.
One of the key components for providing alternative sources of income to the local communities will be through the generation of carbon credit revenues based on both REDD activities and reforestation activities in the area.
More information:
Richard Kaguamba
Programme Manager
Fresh Water & Terrestrial Ecosystems Branch
Division of Environmental Policy Implementation
P.O. Box 39522 (00100)
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 20 7624745
Fax: +254 20 7624249
Email: forest@unep.org
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