Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in African Dry Forests: from local action to national forest policy reforms

Specific Objectives

• Adoption of improved forest management and marketing practices for selected forest products that benefit the poor in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Zambia;
• Enhanced forest benefit distribution mechanisms and collective action within targeted communities in the three countries;
• Changed perception and processes for policy makers on the importance of dry forests in rural livelihoods.