Current Projects
SDI LLC is undertaking a scoping exercise for Forest Trends on payment for ecosystem services, challenges and opportunities in Central Africa.
SDI LLC is currently in the planning stages for several new Congo Basin initiatives. We are also developing a framework and tools for facilitating understanding of results and impacts of conservation and development programming benefiting from public financing, based on open source information.
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Project Study
SDI conducted an assessment of social, environmental, and ecological impacts of logging compared with ecotourism and conservation concessions in the Dzanga Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic for the Sacharuna Foundation. The study looked at how different approaches impact both wildlife populations and local and indigenous peoples.
Past Relevant Congo Basin Work
Satya Development International LLC provided technical assistance to Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) in Congo Brazzaville. The work took place in August and focused on sustainable forestry in northern Congolese social and environmental contexts, particularly regarding Forest Stewardship Council Certification criteria involving stakeholder free and informed prior consent.
This participatory map done in Landscape #7 of the CARPE project allowed IRM, under WWF, to develop a community based natural resource management plan for 30,000 km, which was handed off to WWF and USAID's CARPE Program for capitalization.
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Satya Development International President, Michael Brown, is studying a community generated participatory map of forest and freshwater resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Participatory mapping was introduced in the Congo Basin to the CARPE Program in Cameroon, Africa in 1998 by Michael Brown and IRM. This methodology of participatory mapping was developed by the Center for Native Lands by Mac Chapin in Central America, who trained IRM, the Cameroonian government, and NGOs. This method of participatory mapping has since spread across the Congo Basin. |
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