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GACF Lombok Declaration provides strategies for promoting the rights of forest-dependent peoples

The Global Alliance of Community Forestry (GACF), after successfully completing its third regional workshop on ” Strengthening Community Forestry Federation/Networks” in conjunction with its annual planning meeting in Lumbok, Indonesia from July 9 – 10, 2011 releases its Lumbok Declaration.

This 12-point declaration reflects on and reviews the GACF's previous Kathmandu and Bangkok declarations published in November 2008 & March 2010, respectively. This declaration also outlines potential GACF strategies and was finalized on the workshop floor with the unanimous agreement on the additional strategies and action plans for ensuring the rights of forest-dependent peoples and local communities and promoting their agenda at the local and global levels.

Read the full GACF Lumbok Declaration here.

Posted By Adam Houston at 1:49pm on July 22, 2011

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