Report on tropical forests and biodiversity in the Dominican Republic

Abstract

This report has the following purposes: (1) Identify the actions needed in the Dominican Republic to achieve sustainable management of its forests and biodiversity; (2) Determine the gaps in the actions needed in the Dominican Republic to achieve sustainable management of its forests and biodiversity; (3) Determine the extent to which United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) proposed actions correspond to these actions needed to achieve sustainable management of the Dominican Republic’s forests and biodiversity; and (4) Determine how the needed natural resources management (NRM) actions could contribute to achieving potential Development Objectives (DOs) in the USAID/Dominican Republic (USAID/DR) 2020-2025 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS).