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Citizens of project communities of the Liberia Forest Sector Project (LFSP) in southeastern Liberia have overwhelmingly extolled the Liberian Government and civil society organizations for implementing the project.

As part of efforts in documenting reasons for low women participation in Community Forest Management Body (CFMBs), the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) on March 9-13, 2023 paid an assessment visit to Gheegbah#1 Authorized Forest Community in Grand Bassa District#2. 

The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) through its Forest Governance Program (FGP) Monday, on March 13, 2023, welcomed a delegation from Siemenpuu Foundation based in Finland.

International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (TF) and Liberian partners officially launched a three-year project in Liberia on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. The project is phase II of the TF support to Liberia and is titled: Keeping the Promise, expanding and strengthening community land and forest governance for a sustainable future. It was launched at a local hotel in Monrovia. 

The Land Rights Law of 2018 provides for the recognition, protection, and registration of community land rights. One of the requirements to registering community land is for communities to agree on and identify the community land space, resources, and boundaries to determine the scope of the community's customary land (see a sample map below in figure 1). For this reason, there is an urgent need to build the most affordable and accessible systems for mapping community lands and natural resources.