FORCERT (Forests for Certain: Forests for Life!)

Our core work is empowering communities through community enhancement, so communities take the lead in their change, balancing their environmental, economic, social and cultural interest. We do this through sustainable land use, ecological conservation, and community action planning processes, and village-based enterprise support. We increase the spread of our bottom up processes through the development of a training program and facility, and increase visibility through the development of external communications so that people know and support what we do. We work at the national and provincial level to influence government policy and practice to create an enabling environment for communities. We have a separate Social Enterprise Arm promoting and trading ethical and green certified products from village-based enterprises, supplying to the best possible markets.