Institutional and political setting
Existing institutions involved in natural resource management and desertification
National Level:
- National Authority to Forest (Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries)
- National Action Plan for Fighting Desertification (Coordination Commission)
- Nacional Service of Firemen and Civil Protection (SNBPC)
Regional Level:
- Commission for Coordination for Regional Development - Centre
- MADRP - Regional Department of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Central Region (DRAPC)
Municipal Level:
- Forest Technical Office (Town Hall)
Civil societies and traditional organisations
- NGO on baldios - Comissão dos Penedos
Existing laws and policies for land and water resource
- Lei de Bases??? of Forest Policy (Law n.º33/99, 17 August)
- National Strategy to Forest (ENF)
- National Action Plan to Fight Desertification
- National Plan to Protect Forest against Fires
- Regional Plan to Forest Planning (PROF)
- Plan of Forest Management (PGF)
Extension and training
- Forest sappers
