RRI Annual Review of the State of Rights and Resources 2015-2016
Press Release
New Data Reveals Investors Cannot Buy Their Way Out of Direct Engagement with Local Peoples; Lack of Government Action to Recognize and Clarify Land Rights Poses Huge Risk to Investors
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Reports
Closing the Gap: Strategies and scale needed to secure rights and save forests
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Protecting the DRC’s Forest: Protected Areas for People and Planet
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Protecting Liberia’s Forest: Conservation for People and Planet
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IAN: Managing Tenure Risk
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Contact
To arrange interviews with the authors or speakers at the panel discussion, or for more information, please contact:
Key Spokespeople
Download a PDF of the key spokespeople biographies here.
- Constance Teage, Program Manager, Community Land Protection Program, Sustainable Development Institute, Liberia
- Joan Carling, Secretary General, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), Philippines
- Mark Eckstein, Director, Environmental and Social Responsibility, CDC Group, UK
- Lou Munden, Founder, TMP Systems, UK
- Rukka Sombolinggi, Deputy to Secretary General, Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), Indonesia
- Luis Felipe Duchicela, Adviser on Indigenous Peoples, Global Social Programs Unit, The World Bank
- Andy White, Coordinator, Rights and Resources Initiative, USA
Launch Event
RRI will launch its annual review of the state of rights and resources in 2015-2016 discussing key questions for the year ahead and complementary reports exploring the costs of allocating protected lands in Liberia and the DRC at a panel event in London on February 3, 2016. For more information on the panel discussion, click here.
The event will be webcast live on February 3, 2016 (9:30 am – 12 pm GMT). To watch the webcast, click here. Questions can be sent to rridialogue on Skype or @RightsResources on Twitter.
Additional Resources
- Agenda
- Media Advisory
- Press Release: Forests on the Brink
- Factsheet: Community Governance Supports Forest Livelihoods and Sustainability
- Factsheet: Indigenous Peoples: A Decade of Progress and Possibility
- RRI at a Glance
- Securing Rights, Combatting Climate Change
- Who Owns the World’s Land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous and community land rights
- Looking for Leadership: New inspiration and momentum amidst crisis
- Lots of Words, Little Action: Will the private sector tip the scales for community land rights?
Infographics
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