Fern is working with Centre pour l’Environnement et de Développement (CED) in Cameroon, Centre pour l’Information Environnementale et le Développement Durable (CIEDD) in Central African Republic and Observatoire Congolais des Droits de l’Homme (OCDH) in the Republic of Congo as part of a DFID-funded CoNGOs (NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in the Congo Basin forests) project. This project aims to raise awareness, to trial pilot projects, and to create a favourable environment for community forestry.