FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A PILOT REDD+ PROJECT FOR MASITO COMMUNITY FOREST RESERVE, KIGOMA, TANZANIA FOR 2012-2017: REVIEW OF PREVIOUS MANAGEMENT PLAN

Motivation/Background:Forest management planning is an important con-dition for ecologically sustainable and economically efβicient forest use. Thecurrent paper presents review of previous forest management plan for imple-mentation of a pilot REDD+ project for Masito Community Forest Reserve,Kigoma, Tanzania for the period 2012-2017.Method:The work mainly involved review of relevant documents enrichedby discussions with project management.Results:The description of the review is presented under twelve major sec-tions, namely: 1. review of previous forest management plan document; 2.objectives of the previous forest management plan; 3. achievements in imple-menting the previous forest management plan; 4. challenges encountered dur-ing the implementation of the previous plan; 5. factors that affected the imple-mentation of the previous forest management plan; 6. survey of existing for-est resources; 7. forest reserve management activities; 8. human resources forforest reserve management; 9. forest adjacent communities; 10. marketing andinitiatives for revenue generation; 11. inter-sectoral linkages and co-operation,and; 12. βinancial resources for management of the forest reserve.Conclusions:The review was the basis for the activities planned for the for-est for 2012-2017. Also, the review should be used as baseline information forassessment of achievement of the planned activities.