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Project
Locally Controlled Forest Restoration (LoCoFoRest)
Locally Controlled Forest Restoration (LoCoFoRest) is a training programme that builds capacity in forest landscape restoration. LoCoFoRest seeks to meet the growing global demand for wood-based products while supporting local economies, water security and biodiversity as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation.
2020 · Now active
Contact us
Malin Lundberg Ingemarsson, PhD
Research Advisor Water Climate and Environment
malin.ingemarsson@siwi.org+46 (0)703 00 26 66
LoCoFoRest is a Sida-funded International Training Programme (ITP) led by the Swedish Forest Agency, with SIWI and Eco-Innovation Foundation as partners. It focuses on scaling up restoration of forest landscapes while securing the prosperity of local communities and improving forest ecosystem services such as water and biodiversity.
The five-year programme started in 2021 and is open to sector representatives from Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republique of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Lao PDR, Nepal, Senegal, Thailand, Togo and Vietnam.
There will be seven one-year courses during the project period; five in English and two in French. Participants start with a web-based introduction course in their home countries before meeting in Sweden for two weeks of intensive training. An important part of the programme is that the participants develop and carry out their own Change Projects, in their home countries and in their own organizations.
