March 20, 2024

Public Announcement: Introducing Knowledge for World Conservation (KWC), a new pathway to serving Climate, Forests and People needs

In a significant stride towards promoting legal and sustainable timber trade practices in Ghana, the Domestic Timber Trade Network (DoTTNeT) has been launched, as part of the Restoration for Resilience and Recovery (3R) project.
November 6, 2023

Ghana’s timber industry takes a leap towards sustainability with the launch of DoTTNeT

In a significant stride towards promoting legal and sustainable timber trade practices in Ghana, the Domestic Timber Trade Network (DoTTNeT) has been launched, as part of the Restoration for Resilience and Recovery (3R) project.
September 13, 2023

Empowering Women in Ghana’s Timber Industry with Digital Skills

The Kumasi Wood Cluster Association (KWC) in collaboration with the GIZ Digital Transformation Centre in Ghana is currently spearheading a groundbreaking initiative aimed at equipping members of the Women in Timber Ghana Association (WiTG) with essential digital skills.
July 10, 2023

KWC empowers timber industry stakeholders with legal compliance training

KWC, in collaboration with the TIDD of FC, recently concluded a comprehensive three-day training workshop aimed at equipping Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (FFPOs), Small and Medium Scale Forest Enterprises (SMFEs), and members of the Women in Timber Ghana Association (WiTG) with vital knowledge on legal requirements for timber production and trade.
April 17, 2023

Consultancy Alert: Assessing the potential volumes of legal timber production and main species available on cocoa and small plantations in the Ashanti Region

KWC is looking for a consultant to develop a case study to assess the potential volumes of legal timber production and main species available on registered cocoa and small plantations in the Ashanti Region.
December 20, 2022

Season’s Greetings from KWC

KWC wishes you and yours, a wonderful festive Season and prosperous New Year!
November 20, 2022

Creating livelihood options for climate-smart smallholder cocoa farmers in Atewa through the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme

KWC, the implementation partner for the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFRP) in the Atewa hotspot intervention area, is creating livelihood options in beekeeping, mushroom and snail farming for smallholder cocoa farmers who have adopted climate-smart farming practices. 
November 1, 2022

The lesser-used and plantation timber exhibition 2022: proceedings and outcome

Kumasi Wood Cluster Association (KWC), the Timber Industry Development Division of the Forestry Commission and the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry, supported by the UKaid and UKTTF, organized the foremost timber exhibition event, in recent times, on the theme: "Emerging wood species fit for housing development and construction works in Ghana".
October 13, 2022

Introducing the “Compendium of Some Ghanaian Timber Species”

The Compendium of Some Ghanaian Timber Species published by KWC, with funding support from the UKaid through the FGMC programme, is now available online.
September 20, 2022

The Lesser-used and Plantation Timber Exhibition, 12-13 October 2022, Accra, Ghana

KWC, in partnership with the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry and Timber Industry Development Division of Ghana's Forestry Commission Ghana, is inviting all and sundry to a major trade show of Ghana-made wood products using plantation and lesser-used wood species.
May 19, 2022

The Women in Timber Ghana Association (WiTG) launched

Women in Timber Ghana Association (WiTG), the first ever national association of women entrepreneurs in the timber industry and forest sector, launched.
October 28, 2021

Project recap: Supporting SMFEs to satisfy harvesting requirement in the GhLAS

Forest enterprises equipped with new skills for legal and safe timber production in Ghana with financial support through the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme.
September 20, 2021

Forest enterprises trained on harvesting requirements to boost legal timber production in Ghana

Operators of Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) feel more capable of meeting Ghana's timber legality standards (GhLAS) following interventions by the Kumasi Wood Cluster Association (KWC) and Preferred by Nature.
August 9, 2021

KWC’s Executive Director appointed as Governing Board member of the Forestry Commission

Mr. Gustav Alexander Adu, the Executive Dorector of Kumasi Wood Cluster Association (KWC) has been appointed along with 10 others to serve on the Governing Board of the Forestry Commission of Ghana.
June 14, 2021

Job Alert: Search for a Graphic Designer

KWC has a vacancy for a Graphic Designer (GD) to be filled as soon as possible. This position is a 3-month part time contract, with a possibility for subsequent retainership.
June 2, 2021

KWC and Forestry Commission train stakeholders on revolutionary Mobile App for timber industry

A mobile application to help capture data in the country's domestic Timber market will soon revolutionize Ghana's timber and forestry resources sector.
May 11, 2021

Forest enterprises urged to keep proper records

Small, Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) have been trained and encouraged to undertake proper documentation of their processes and activities in accordance with Regulation 76 of the Timber Resource Management and Legality Licensing Regulation 2017, (LI 2254)
February 2, 2021

Vacancy Alert: Search for a Senior Projects Officer

KWC has a vacancy for a Senior Project Officer (SPO) in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Science to be filled as soon as possible.
February 4, 2020

Ghana’s timber sector develops communication strategy to grasp EU opportunities

The Kumasi Wood Cluster (KWC) and the Ghana Timber Millers Organization (GTMO) have introduced an innovative marketing communication strategy to help the private sector capitalise on opportunities in the European Union (EU).
April 14, 2016

Lack of formalised processes for compensation negotiations

The days when active involvement of community members and farmers in the lumber business was dismissed as irrelevant, are long gone.
September 13, 2014

Transporting timber at night in Ghana is illegal

Timber contractors, firms and sawn millers have been warned not to transport timber at night.