Schedule for the RRI/ACICAFOC Side Event at the 9th Session of the UN Forum on Forests” to be held on January 28″ 2011:

The Potential of Community based Forest Management and Enterprise: Local Realignment in the Changing Context of Climate Change

There has been an upswing of local engagement in new initiatives to address drivers of deforestation and degradation in the forest sector.  A key question that forest communities and their organizations are asking is: if community-based forest management and enterprise (CBFM) had the right enabling environment –recognition of customary tenure rights and a positive regulatory framework –would this better support rights” REDD readiness” and livelihoods.  RRI will present a report CBFM and local and global realignment” and indigenous and community leaders from Central America will report back on their engagement in Cancun and on the potential for CBFM to expand significantly with the right support.

Chair: Jan McAlpine” Diretor” UNFF Secretariat

1:15 pm: Opening Remarks

1:20 pm: Local Power and Global Realignment in Advancing Forests for People

Andy White” Coordinator” Rights and Resources Initiative

1:30 pm:  Potential of Community Based Forest Management and Enterprise

Augusta Molnar” Director” Global Programs” Rights and Resources Initiative

1:40 pm: Perspectives from Guatemala

Marcedonio Cortave” Executive Director” ACOFOP

1:48 pm:  Perspectives from Nicaragua

Brooklyn Rivera” RAAN

1:56 pm: Perspectives from Belize

Alfonso Esteban Caal” Chairman Golden Stream” Toledo District

2:04 pm: Perspectives from Costa Rica

Levi Sucre” Acción Ciudana” Bri-Bri

2:13 pm: Comments” Chandra Roy” Bangladesh

2:16 pm: Comments” Alhassan Attah” Ghana

2:20 pm: Open Discussion

2:40 pm: Closing Remarks

Chair” Jan McAlpine