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The Pepperbird VOL-1-06-20 THE PEPPER BIRD SCNL QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER 2ND EDITION VOL . 1-07-2020 SCNL BRIDGING THE POLICY GAPS: LIBERIA-SIERRA LEONE SIGN AMENDED BILATERAL MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR GOLA FOREST PREVIEW“Helping to Conserve Nature” COPY The Pepper Bird Second Edition Table of Contents INSIDE THIS EDITION Ø Organizational Prole P2 Ø Messages from the Leadership P3 Ø SCNL Bridging The Policy Gaps P4 Ø CEPF's Hotspot Hero Award P7 Ø SCNL Conducts 2nd Community P8 Ecoguard Training Ø SCNL Project And Achievements P9 Ø Conservation Agreement (CA) P10 Ø SCNL Joins the Fight Against P10 COVID - 19 Ø Know Your Protected Species P12 PREVIEW SCNLCOPY NEWSLETTER - 2016-2020 1 Organizational Profile The Society for the Conservaon of Nature of Liberia (SCNL) was established in 1986 in accordance with the Liberian Business Law of 1976 for non-for-profit organizaons. The organizaon is a non-governmental, nonpolical and not-for-profit agency. SCNL is the Lead Naonal Civil Society Organizaon for nature conservaon in Liberia. SCNL also maintains a membership base as part of its efforts to increase voices for nature conservaon in Liberia as well as within the West African Sub-Region and the world at large through sustainable partnerships. As part of the acvies of SCNL each year, a General Assembly (GA) is hosted in order to deliberate on issues around nature conservaon, related policy issues and the advancement and sustainable way forward for the organizaon. Vision: That biodiversity is effectively managed and wisely used. Mission: To educate, encourage, and assist the public to understand the need to conserve nature, build consensus on the effecve management of Biodiversity, and to ensure that the use of natural resources is sustainable. Objecves: 1. Increase instuonal capacity for effecve management of biodiversity. 2. Strengthen community structures in providing basic informaon on the threats, use of other resources and biodiversity 3. Increase advocacy for the creaon of addional protected areas. 4. Increase alternave livelihood opportunies for communies around protected and potenal conservaon areas. 5. Heighten public awareness on the socio, economic, environmental, aesthec and cultural values of natural resources. Motto: Helping to Conserve Nature SCNL NEWSLETTER - 2016-2020 2 PrefacebyBoardofDirectors The year 2019 showed our resilience as a team to forge forward in the achievements of all of our programs and projects. We achieve most of our targets and we are hopeful that this year, 2020, is no exception to making even better progress. As I said during our Annual Retreat in January, 2020 , I encouraged each of us to continuously work as a team , improve capacity and seek more projects and programs to sustain jobs and keep SCNL aoat. In spite of the setback we have been experiencing with the Corona Virus, we are still determined to meet our targets for 2020. We remained vigilant in keeping safe while delivering to our donors and partners. Thank you! Moses A. Massah Chairman, SCNL Board of Directors MessagefromourExecutiveDirector 2020 started with a skeleton staff working few hours per week o n a r e a l l y when Liberia recorded her rst index case of great note as Corona Virus and a State of Emergency was w e m a d e declared. This worldwide pandemic stalled most p l a n s t o of our eld activities because we had to work complete our from home for a considerable number of weeks. p e n d i n g However, we made all necessary provision projects and available for our staff and set up a channel of programs that communication to keep in touch with each other. were coming to We also set up an Emergency Coordination a close and Response Team to buttress the Government of start new ones Liberia efforts in creating awareness on the t h a t w e r e Corona Virus and provided preventive being nalized materials for all of our project sites( Grand Cape for roll out. Mount, Gbarpolu and Sinoe Counties) as well as We also made plans to engage in and work on a donation of same to the Montserrado County policy matters that affect the Gola Landscape Health Team. This emergency response was while improving staff capacity and productivity made possible by our Donors: Rain Forest Trust, through training and capacity building Green Livelihood Alliance, WABiCC and our initiatives. We hosted our Annual Staff retreat newest project PAPFor. We have since resumed in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, from January 9- work as of May 27, 2020 (working from 8Am to 12, 2020 with all senior staff in attendance 4pm) with all staff on board and some eld as well as members of our board headed by our activities are being implemented, but with board chair. We made robust work plans, set stringent measures in place to keep our staff, resolutions and crafted action points for each of afliates and partners safe from this deadly our projects/programs and departments. We virus while doing our work. We pray for a also adopted our Gender and Social Inclusion resolution to resume full time work and to start a and Safeguard policies at that retreat. We full roll out of our project activities for our achieved a major policy milestone which was the newest projects like PAPFor and Darwin that signing of an Amended Memorandum of have been nalized for implementation. We U n d e r s t a n d i n g f o r t h e G O L A extend a big thank you to all of our partners and TRANSBOUNDARY Landscape On February 18, donors who continue to ensure that SCNL stays 2020. It was signed between the Republics of aoat during this world wide pandemic. Liberia and Sierra Leone at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia located at Thank You! Capitol Hill, in Monrovia through the coordination of SCNL and the FDA. On March Michael F. Garbo 19, 2020, we took a hiatus from full time work Executive Director SCNL NEWSLETTER - 2016-2020 3 The Pepper Bird Second Edition-Bridging the Policy Gaps SCNL BRIDGING THE POLICY GAPS - LIBERIA-SIERRA LEONE SIGN AMENDED BILATERAL MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR GOLA FOREST. n February 18, 2020, a n A m e n d e d OM e m o r a n d u m o f Understanding for the GOLA TRANSBOUNDARY Landscape was signed between the Republics of Liberia and Sierra Leone at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia located at Capitol Hill, in Monrovia . This process began in 2010 with the establishment of the Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone, and the signing of a bilateral MOU in October 2011 Between then Presidents, Ellen ceremony said: “What we are about to witness Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Ernest Bai today is a balancing. We have to conserve Gola Koroma of Sierra Leone . These specic Forest, we have to conserve wildlife, but those a m e n d m e n t s f o c u s o n t h e s h a r e d who live in the communities around the forest, responsibilities for the conservation and their lives also have to be improved”, while USAID management of the Gola Forest. West Africa Representative at the program, said, Signatories to the amended Bilateral MOU “It is our hope that in the era of conict around were Honorable Gbehzohngar Milton Findley, the world, we can see a transboundary Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of cooperation between Liberia and Sierra Leone to Liberia, Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of protect the Gola Forest and will continue to serve Agriculture, Sam-King Brima; Secretary- as a model across the region, and indeed, the General of the Mano River Union, Madam continent.” Medina Wesseh; Paramount Chief, Alameen SCNL Executive Director Michael F. Garbo also Kanneh of Koya Chiefdom, Kenema District making remarks at the ceremony applauded the , Sierra Leone and Paramount Chief of Kongba partners; BirdLife International, the Royal District, Gbarpolu County, Liberia, Chief Society for the Protection of Birds (RSBP), USAID , John Try. The signing ceremony for the EU , Rainforest Trust and other donors for their a m e n d m e n t s w a s a l s o g r a c e d b y support that brought the Greater Gola Trans- representatives of regional and local partners, Boundary collaboration to fruition. Mr. Garbo at including the Economic Community of West the same time pledged SCNL's commitment in African States, USAID West Africa, USAID ensuring the Trans-Boundary Peace Park is Liberia, the European Union, and the Society protected. And for their part, Paramount Chiefs for Conservation of Nature of Liberia. Kanneh of Sierra Leone and John Try of Liberia Honorable Findley making remarks during the reafrmed their willingness to work with all stakeholders to conserve the forest, with the expectation that all parties involved would honor their commitments and chart a path together. Paramount Chief Kanneh said: “This event is a very important one, but the process that ensues out of this is what actually matters. With this memorandum of understanding, our destinies are now inextricably linked, our futures are all the same, and that our children's futures will be protected.” This forest landscape which hosts the Gola Transboundary Peace Park, is home to the Gola PREVIEW SCNLCOPY NEWSLETTER - 2016-2020 4 The Pepper Bird Second Edition-Bridging the Policy Gaps Rainforest National Park in Sierra Leone and protect the forest. In 2018, WABBiCC the Gola Forest National Park in Liberia. supported a meeting of technical Together, the forests is more than 350,000 representatives to lay the groundwork for the hectares and represent one of the largest rst meeting of the Coordination Committee, remaining blocks of the Upper Guinea Forest.
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