Guinea, 2025
Client: Centre d’Étude et de Coopèration Internationale (CECI)
Goal
The Study is executed in the framework of the NBS Guinean Forests project led by CECI that aims to promote gender-sensitive investments in nature-based solutions that support climate change adaptation, enhance biodiversity, and create income opportunities for women in target areas.
EUCORD will conduct a market system analysis on the value chains of three key non-timber forest products in the Madina Woula, Moussayah, and Allassoyah regions.
What We Do
The project focuses on a market system analysis to identify sustainable business opportunities within the value chains of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in Guinea. Key activities include:
- Identification of viable business opportunities that contribute to biodiversity enhancement, climate adaptation, and women's economic empowerment.
- Mapping of the three main NTFP value chains, including functions, players, physical flows, financial flows, and governance.
- Socio-economic profiling of women in the study area to understand their needs, aspirations, technical and entrepreneurial capacities, challenges, and representation in management bodies.
- Detailed business model and profitability analysis of the selected value chains, assessing revenue generation, value addition, and distribution among actors, including women.
- Formulation of recommendations and action proposals to improve women's incomes, biodiversity conservation, and climate change adaptation.
Conclusion
- Inform private sector engagement and investment strategies.
- Identify women-led enterprises and cooperatives in need of support.
- Highlight existing investments that promote biodiversity and climate resilience.
- Aligning findings with previous studies to ensure consistency in project actions.
- Propose targeted interventions for women's empowerment and sustainable forest management.
