What is Agoro-Agu Forest Landscape Platform?
Agoro-Agu Forest Landscape Platform was instituted to secure agreed multi-stakeholder arrangements, measures and conceptual frameworks, to ensure the following principles:
a) Efficiency in clarifying and protecting rights;
b) Fostering participation and inclusion of the poor, resolving conflicts and delivering livelihood and forest conservation benefits for forest adjacent communities in the districts of Lamwo and Kitgum.
A multi-stakeholder meeting was held on 15th of December 2014 that gave birth to the Agoro-Agu Forest Landscape platform. This first meeting served to raise awareness on the value of conserving the landscape whilst generating lessons to inform on-going national processes of the development of the national REDD+ strategy that aims for a harmonized and coordinated approach towards a climate-resilient and low-carbon development path for sustainable development. The platform:
- Provides space for information sharing and exchange on selected issues;
- Involves participation/involvement of different stakeholders with shared interest/goal around a shared natural resource;
- Targets at achieving a shared goal/objectives;
- Has a clear engagement plan to achieve its goals/objectives.
The Platform comprises of stakeholders (such as civil society, local government, cultural institutions, national forestry authority) that target to conserve the environment and natural resources within Agoro-Agu central forest reserve landscape through good governance and better service delivery. The platform provides space for the stakeholders to coordinate and jointly engage in policy lobbying and advocacy with a collective voice and also provides opportunities for capacity building through learning and information sharing so as to ensure evidence based advocacy towards good governance of the country’s natural resources. However the Platform is not operating in a vacuum, but rather its engagements are linked with similar initiatives at the regional and national levels through the Uganda Forestry Working Group (UFWG) regional node for Northern Uganda and the UFWG and Environment and Natural resources Civil Society Organizations (ENR-CSO) Network, respectively, whose secretariats are hosted at Environmental Alert. These networks provide the space and linkages for presentation and discussion of the landscape issues into the national policy making process.
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PHOTO GALLERY
MAP
Map showing Agoro-Agu Forest landscape
BROCHURE
Download: The Agoro-Agu forest landscape platform Brochure
CASE STUDY
REPORT
Download: Socio Economic Baseline Report for the REDD+II Project