A social alliance - ICT Update, a current awareness bulletin for ACP agriculture: "Forest Connect works in 12 countries to link small-scale forestry enterprises to each other and to national institutions, and helps them to gather and deliver information using ICTs.
Many small and medium-sized forest enterprises (SMFEs) have little contact with other businesses, organisations and agencies in the sector. Forest Connect, established in 2007, tackles that isolation and encourages entrepreneurs to share ideas, and find funding to support their work.
The alliance currently works with national partner institutions in 12 countries, including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Liberia, Malawi, Mali and Mozambique. Previous research and work done by the two organisations managing the project, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and FAO, showed that the selected countries suffered from an apparent lack of institutions with skills and resources to support small businesses based on sustainable forestry management practices."
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