A new report, launched in Monrovia today, proposes formalizing customary Liberian land ownership by registering it as private property. This would signal the launch of a reform agenda that would restore the forest land rights of the overwhelming majority of Liberia’s rural populations; made up of poor agrarian families and clans.

 

The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) is working to transform the decision-making processes relative to natural resources and promote equity in the sharing of benefits derived from natural resource exploitation in Liberia. The organization’s vision is a Liberia in which natural resource management is guided by the principles of sustainability and good governance and benefits all Liberians. Its activities cover a range of cross-cutting issues including governance and management, environment, state and corporate social responsibility, economic and social justice for rural populations and the democratic participation of ordinary people in how government manages their natural resources.

 

The organization was founded in 2002 and received the Goldman Environmental Prize for outstanding environmental achievements in Africa in 2006. The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world’s largest prize honouring grassroots environmentalists.

News and Press Releases

• A New Report
  Wednesday, 30 January 2008
• Liberian Government actions threaten to violate the newly adopted Forestry Law and undermine ongoing forest sector reforms
  Monday, 11 June 2007
• 21 NGOs Issue Statement on the enactment of Liberia’s new National Forestry Reform Law
  Tuesday, 26 September 2006
• Civil Society Forest Sector Reform Working Group
  Wednesday, 21 April 2004

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