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Who’s Who
in Forestry in Lesotho |
Lesotho Council of NGO’s (LCN)
want to find out about all forestry stakeholders in Lesotho. A new
partnership project between the Ministry of Forestry and Land
Reclamation, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
and LCN has been initiated to collect baseline information on all
Non-governmental Organizations, Community Based Organisations and
the Private Sector, who have been involved in forestry activity and
those who wish to be involved in the future.
The forestry information collected will enable all non-state actors
in forestry to help inform the governments planned new ‘National
Forestry Programme’, to be formulated this year. Organisations can
get involved in the planning through filling out a questionnaire
which will enable them to become listed on a on-line database that
will be placed on LCN’s new website to be completed by December,
2005. The database will act as the Who’s Who in Forestry in Lesotho
and will outline organisations past, current work and future
aspirations towards forestry.
With the help of its member NGO’s, Rural Self-help Development
Association and Boseele Association the researchers will cover all
ten districts in Lesotho in pursuit of this information. They will
be collecting information on all types of forestry activity, whether
large or small, such as timber production, tree nurseries,
agro-forestry, orcharding and fruit production and will also include
community forestry activities such as woodlots and land reclamation
by tree planting.
Tseliso Tsoeu from LCN said ‘ the project gives all stakeholders in
forestry a chance to have their say. It also allows us at LCN to
understand more about civil society aspirations in regards of
forestry. With Lesotho’s topography, climate and economic situation,
forestry in all its aspects has a great potential for livelihood
recovery in Lesotho. It is important that all forestry stakeholders
in Lesotho have their voices heard through this survey and other
consultations that will be held in the future.’
You can complete the questionnaire opposite and return it to LCN by
31st October or;
Questionnaires and information can be obtained from;
Lesotho Council of NGO’s, - www.lecongo.org.ls
House 544
Hoohlo Extension
Maseru 100
Tel: 2231 7205
Rural Self-help Development Association
Tel: 2231 1279
(for Central & Southern Districts)
Boseele Association
Tel: 5873 9271 or 5886 1123
(for Northern Districts)
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