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News and (planned) events
October 2009
Project partner TBI/Ghana in collaboration with Forestry Commission Ghana organised a workshop/seminar 8 and 9 October 2009 to identify jointly shared research issues in the field of managing the consequences of VPA implementation on livelihoods. In addition, the recently ratified VPA was reviewed on social safeguard mechanisms to mitigate potential adverse effects of the VPA on social actors who depend on forest resources in Ghana. For reports see this page.
June 2009
Ghana Parliament ratified the EU-Ghana VPA in June 2009; the EU Parliament did the same in November 2009. The full VPA text and annexes can be downloaded here.
June 2009
Seminar cum workshop - The FLEGT/VPA process in Ghana: legality and livelihoods, Wageningen, June 8 – 9, 2009 (report is available here)
April 2009
Public symposium on natural resource governance organised by Forest Watch Ghana/ICCO/Tropenbos International - Ghana on 16th April, 2009 in Accra under the name: “Challenges of Legislative and Institutional reforms under the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)”.
Ghana has received much international attention and recognition as the first timber producer country that has signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Commission. The VPA aims to guarantee and certify that in future only timber products which are legally produced and traded in Ghana will be exported to the European Union. This will enhance the sustainable management of the forest resources. Most stakeholders however agree that Ghana will face some major challenges to achieve this.
The objective of the symposium is to raise awareness about these challenges and to identify potential ways of dealing with them.
February 2009
The IoI? Project negotiates with the University of Amsterdam and the Kwama Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana to have a multidisciplinary group of students doing project related research in Ghana. The research activity will start in May 2009 and aims to contribute to the PhD research of Chris Beeko (WP2). The backgroundpaper and TSPA research questions as prepared by Chris is available here. The findings of the TSPA research can be found on the publication page of this site.
September 2008
PRESS RELEASE - Conclusion of negotiations of the first voluntary partnership agreement between Ghana and the European Union on a Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade, Accra- Brussels, 3 September 2008.
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