In November, FECOFUN led RRI in setting new directions for community forestry in Nepal by building consensus and solidarity among forest user groups during a…
Making REDD Work for the Forest-Dependent Poor: Civil Society Perspectives from the South In a joint policy statement released by RRI Partner Federation of Community…
Subregional Workshop – Ownership and Access Rights in Decentralized Natural Resources Management in the Sahel RRI” Intercooperation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation…
Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) of Cameroon. At the Siedemnastka room” 1st Floor” Collegium Minus.
This opinion piece is authored by Ben Vickers” Senior Program Officer at RECOFTC “REDD”” as it happens” is Norwegian for “scared.” So” did the notorious forest-based…
This week climate change and development practitioners” rights advocates” policy-makers” and representatives from forest communities will meet in Oslo for the first international conference on…
In an RRI supported activity” the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the
Rights and Resources Initiative” International Tropical Timber Organization and the Cameroon Ministry of Forests and Wildlife are pleased to announce the international conference Forest Tenure”…
Forest Trade and Market Reforms in the Mekong Region: Creating a network to support sustainability” legality and pro-poor outcomes In late August” Forest Trends and…
On August 12-14″ 2008″ community leaders” government representatives” researchers and members of the RRI coalition met in Edéa” Cameroon to discuss alternative models for tenure…
In this recent article” RECOFTC Program Officer Ben Vickers reflects on the importance of recognizing rights for local communities in Thailand who are facing increasing…
This week RRI Partners joined in the lively discussion of common property rights and customary systems of communal resource management from around the world at…
July 14th – The Rights and Resources Initiative launched two new reports today in an event held at the London House of Commons” sponsored by…
Representatives from governments” civil society” research institutions and the private sector came together in Hanoi April 21-25 to seek solutions to today’s most challenging forest…
28 May – RRI partner ACICAFOC brought together over 300 civil society representatives in a Summit held parallel to the Central American Presidential Summit on…
On May 9th” 2008 in Lomié” in the department of Haut Nyong” Eastern Province” Cameroon” a group of community forestry leaders and advocates took a…
In response to recently-observed climatic changes in Cameroon” RRI Partner CIFOR organized Forest Day Cameroon” held in Yaoundé on 24 April 2008. The occasion” intended…
On April 30th” Yati Bun of the Foundation for People and Community Development presented an opening statement on behalf of the Civil Society Advisory Group…
Last week in Monrovia” Liberia” RRI and Green Advocates hosted meetings that have spurred dialogue among policymakers and civil society about the future of ownership…
On March 11th and 12th 2008″ the Africa regional team of the CIFOR-RRI research project met for a regional research workshop in Burkina Faso. The…
As part of the research project on livelihoods and community forestry in Lao PDR” RRI Partners and collaborators are working to build research capacity among…
On February 28th and 29th” RRI and Peking University hosted a two-day international conference on tenure and regulatory reform in China. The event included participants…