BY ROGER MUCHUBA Groupe Travail Climat REDD, DR CONGO ...

Community-based forestry in CongoBasin• Difference between ‘community-based forestry’ and ‘communityforestry’• Cameroon implemented community forestry• However, onerous administrative process, small concession size andnot related to traditional forest management• Provision in the DRC Forest Code for community-based forestry – butno implementation• Currently – debate on community forest law• Proposal to restrict size of community forest to 10,000 hectares, buttraditional areas are often 100,000 hectares• Need to transfer land rights not just management rights over forest• Law is crucial for success of REDD process