Project is designed to support a forest community to develop the capacity to create wealth through good forest management and promote sustainable livelihoods of Agoi Ekpo community.The lowland forest of Ukpon River provide valuable ecological services by controlling and buffering regional climate, By absorbing and storing excess carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels it helps to slow down the rate of global warming.
The project will facilitate short term skills acquisition program and the development of a viable and sustainable solution to deforestation and rural poverty through the community?s diversified economic base and by harvesting, processing and marketing forest products sustainably. It will address the problem of management and unsustainable exploitation by facilitating village level workshops and short term courses in forest management. Advice on local marketing of forest produce will be provided. For sustainability, the project will facilitate the constitution of a Forest Committee as well as Community Facilitators for the benefiting community. The project will also develop training and environmental education materials, activities such as drama, posters, church/school competitions and radio programs to raise awareness. A minimum of 100 youth and other groups will acquire functional skills; etc. The outcome indicators are a minimum of 20 communities receive and use environmental education materials. Community forestry receives technical support; micro credit fund provided to stimulate alternative economic activities;

Trained women able to grow NTFPs on their farms thereby easing pressure on those in the wild; Ed Basee will provide technical advice, necessary capacity building program to facilitate practical community effort to forest and forest products management. The total project budget is thirty seven thousand, six hundred dollars only. The project is requesting twenty two thousand five hundred dollars only. Ed Basee will contribute seven thousand six hundred dollars; the benefiting community is expected to contribute seven thousand five hundred dollars only The project is expected to start in Novemebr, 2010.


Extensive conversion of the forest to non forest land cover resulted in changes in soil fertility and rainfall patterns that have affected human livelihoods and ecosystem productivity. In addition to habitat destruction, the forest is becoming increasingly fragmented leading to gradual loss of critical wildlife corridors that formerly linked forest blocks, while widespread illegal logging has resulted in rapid degradation of the surviving forests blocks.

Project activities include; Establish project infrastructure, staff orientation, community mobilization, election of forest management committee (FMC), community facilitators (CF), assignment of roles and responsibilities, Environmental education (EE): development of EE materials for community, radio program recording and broadcast, Distribution of EE materials, training workshops on EE, workshop for FMC, CF NGOs, CBOs community members on forest management, stock inventory, environmental issues, natural resources management, agro forestry, and sustainable use of natural resources and project monitoring. Groups involved are the women as well as youths of the community.