Liberia Forest Concession Review: Phase II
Publisher: Forest Trends
Author(s): Michael Jenkins
Date: 2024
Topics: Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: Liberia
In 2014, the Government of Norway signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Government of Liberia (GoL), promising US$150 million to support sustainable development that reduces deforestation and forest degradation. As part of the agreement, the GoL is required to “complete an independent government investigation that will examine the legality of existing logging...contracts.” The GoL contracted Forest Trends to finalize the concession review begun by SOFRECO (2020). As outlined by the Forestry Development Authority’s Managing Director (FDA MD), the Liberia Forest Concession Review: Phase II (LFCRII) aims to take stock and update the findings from previous reviews on the legality of the award, management planning, and logging operations of Forest Resource Licenses; establish a transparent process to share and update those results; and “help to find negotiated solutions for cases that do not call for more serious consequences under Liberian law.”