Description

Liberia possesses one of the most significant forested areas in West Africa, covering over 40% of its land area. These forests play a critical role in safeguarding biodiversity, supporting climate change mitigation, sustaining the timber industry, and providing livelihoods for rural communities. The Government of Liberia is committed to the sustainable management of these resources in line with national development priorities and international commitments. The Government of Liberia recognizes that public access to reliable, timely, and accurate forest sector information is essential for transparency, accountability and good forest governance. The Forest Development Authority (FDA) is in the process of establishing a Public Transparency Portal that will serve as a central digital hub for accessing forest data, permit processes, forest use policies, and real-time/ and up-to-date forest sector data made available to the public and serve as a public-facing statistical reporting and accountability platform for the public. Once developed and operational, the portal will display information from reliable and up-to-date sources which include Libertrace, FDA managed sources/databases, other relevant agency sources/ databases, as well as additional sources determined/ identified during the design and development of the portal.