Mid term evaluation of the Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative

The Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative (MCDI) promotes forest conservation in Southeastern Tanzania. The initiative helps to find and create opportunities for local communities to benefit from the sustainable management of their forests. Actually MCDI is supporting seven communities covering an area of more than 80.000 hectares of natural Miombo forests. For these forests, legal forest management and harvesting plans have been elaborated and approved. Furthermore, all forest management activities are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified – the first and so far only FSC certificate for community based forest management all over Africa. MCDI & Environmental Africa Trust (EAT) commissioned UNIQUE to carry out a mid-term evaluation of the project and to specifically consider outstanding risks facing the project.