INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY OF MUICHI IN DECISION-MAKING ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FOREST RESOURCES IN THE DISTRICT OF NIPEPE, NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE

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The present study was developed in Niassa Province, Nipepe District, specifically in the community of Muichi with the objective of assessing the involvement of the local community in decision making about forest resource management. Thus, to answer the study objective, 109 respondents were interviewed, being: traditional authorities (3), members of natural resource management committees (5), community members (95), representatives from the private sector (03) and from NGOs (3).  Data were obtained through the use of non-probability snowball sampling or snowball sampling, techniques such as questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews, informal conversations, institutional records or document analysis, and direct field observation were employed. The data were analyzed in the Microsoft Excel 2019 program and IBM SPSS Statistics 26 based on content analysis and pattern matching which consists of grouping the similar responses of the respondents into their corresponding categories of information and explaining the differences so that conclusions can be drawn. It was observed that the community has a low level of control over the Forest resources, and its participation in the decision making process has been limited due to factors such as: the non-representation of the community in the district advisory councils, the lack of financial resources, the lack of human resources to assist in the inspection process has been the factor that most creates difficulty in the Forest resources inspection process.