Consortium past performance
Sustainable Forestry Management (BOLFOR)
Location Bolivia
Performance period August 1993 - December 2003
Partner Chemonics International
Budget $25,562,500
Donor/Client USAID
Contract 511-C-00-93-00027-00
This project worked to reduce the degradation of forest, soil, and water resources and to protect the biological diversity of Bolivia’s forests. Chemonics worked with indigenous communities and the logging industry to find approaches and incentives to manage forest resources sustainably, and with government and trade associations to effect policy reform. The project’s main focus was ecocertification, which ensures that forest products are extracted from sustainably managed areas. Chemonics assisted with natural forest management, policy analysis, institutional development, and product development. The team helped select forest areas for management, inventory forest resources and forest product uses, define certification criteria, test sustainable management techniques and technologies, strengthen local government’s ability to enforce forest regulations, and market certified products to environmentally conscious buyers worldwide. Chemonics provided conflict resolution and sound technical advice to help craft a landmark forestry law, an institutional support framework, and a monitoring regime. Project-supported forest management standards are the first from a developing country to be accepted by the worldwide Forestry Stewardship Council. With almost one million hectares certified, Bolivia is now home to the largest sustainably managed forest in the tropics.
Case study
Santa Cruz, Bolivia | February 27, 2004
Bolivia's eco-certified forest grows
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