The unit of participation is the cell, the smallest
administrative unit in Rwanda, made up of three to six
villages. We selected four participating cells adjacent to
Nyungwe National Park, with paired controls (Table 1).
Only cells located south of the main road (Fig. 1) were
TABLE 1 Demographics of the four participating (P) cells and paired control cells, with the number of households per cell, mean annual
household consumption calculated from the livelihood surveys, percentage of household consumption from forest resources and estimated
opportunity costs based on this consumption. The opportunity costs exceed the annual household award of USD 30 in all but one cell.
No households reported use of forest resources in Murwa.