POP Malawi

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COMMUNITY-LED AFFORESTATION AND REFORESTATION PROJECT

David Attenborough Forest

Community-Led Afforestation and Reforestation is a project which seeks to take place in one of the fast-degrading regions of Machinga district in Malawi. The once richly-forestated area has lately, suffered rapid deforestation due to unsustainable man’s activities of charcoal burning and wood. In response to this problem, a Civic Education Committee for Climate Mindset was established in April 2023 with the aim of engaging with the communities to visualize and solve problems together. One of the outcomes from the engagements was the designing of the Community-Led Afforestation and Reforestation Project. The special factor of this project is that it is Community-led. This means;

  • communities who are the beneficiaries of the project will be actively participating in the project
  • communities who are feeling the pains of the environment degradation will be involved in the solution engineering
  • the project will take place in the areas where the problem exists
  • locally available resources like land, water and labor will be provided by the beneficiary communities themselves.
  • management and leadership of the project will be led by the authorities of the communities themselves.