Gabon

Timber awaiting transport in Gabon

FLEGT in Gabon

Gabon is among the front-runners of the countries in the pre-negotiation stage. The roadmap for negotiations is already developed and the first negotiation session is expected to take place on 23 September 2010. Preparing for negotiations, civil society in country has started to discuss issues around the legality definition and has elected its representatives. It is expected that they will be invited to fully engage in the process.

 

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Documents

22/12/2011 English Civil society publications, Conference papers, Consultation / Participation, Gabon

Part of series of presentations given in civil society workshop in Duala, Cameroon. September 2011.

25/08/2010 English Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, Ecuador, FLEGT, Gabon, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia, Vietnam

PDF version of the slideshow which appears on the FLEGT page

06/03/2009 English Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, FLEGT, Gabon, Independent monitoring

Forests Monitor, in collaboration with Resource Extraction Monitoring (REM), FERN, and the Centre for the Environment and Development (CED) held a regional workshop in Brazzaville in March 2009. The workshop facilitated regional exchange on forest governance issues and strengthened the technical capacity of 22 civil society representatives from Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, and Democratic Republic of Congo in independent monitoring of forest law enforcement and governance.