On March 25-27, RRI represented the Independent Advisory Group to the UN-REDD programme at the 8th UN-REDD Policy Board meeting and its joint meeting with the World Bank?s Forest Carbon partnership Facility (FCPF) in Asunci?n, Paraguay. Jeffrey Hatcher and Andy White presented the outline of a significant, independent policy paper on land tenure issues requested by the Policy Board at its previous meeting. They also delivered a presentation highlighting a new planned initiative from RRI: a global land tenure facility that will leverage effort and funding towards securing forest tenure rights.