The Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA), partnered with the University of PNG GIS/Remote Sensing Centre (UPNG), have been continuing their collaboration work with local communities and the provincial governments of the Torricelli Mountain Range on forest governance and monitoring activities. The Centre for International Development & Training (CIDT) has been providing forest governance training to all national project partners as part of the capacity building of project stakeholders.

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HISTORY

The Tenkile Conservation Alliance was established in Papua New Guinea in 2001.

STRATEGY

• ​Community development
• Ensuring sustainability
• Protecting biodiversity and culture
• Conducting research
  
• Mitigating climate change

VISION & MISSION

TCA’s vision is for the people of Papua New Guinea to value and protect their natural resources, communities and cultures in the context of advancing the overall well being of their communities and their places.
TCA's mission is to:

1. Provide urgent and necessary services to rainforest communities in Papua New Guinea that result in the relief of poverty and improve health.
   
2. Facilitate processes that provide opportunity for rainforest communities in Papua New Guinea to govern, manage and protect their biological and cultural richness from exploitation.
   
3. Implement a bottom up approach to achieving all of TCA’s goals and objectives. To ensure rainforest communities are enabled with their own freedom of choice, as they advance into the 21st century, working towards self-determination of their communities.

ULTIMATE GOAL

The Ultimate Goal of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance is: to improve health, provide education and so relieve poverty as well as protect biodiversity and the cultures of rainforest communities in Papua New Guinea.​