Date: May 30, 2014

Washington, D.C. (May 30, 2014) — The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is pleased to welcome the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to the RRI Coalition. A long-standing RRI collaborator, CIFOR brings to the Coalition a wealth of information and analyses on the relationship among forests, poverty, and the environment, and how management and governance of forests affect the livelihood and well-being of forest-dependent local communities and Indigenous Peoples. This announcement serves to recognize the strong history of collaboration, and now formal partnership, between the two organizations.