issued new Forest Rights Act Amendment Rules 2012 that strengthen collective rights and restrict bureaucratic powers over forest dwelling communities. This issuance was a direct…
ENTRADAS RECIENTES
In Indonesia, the Government
accepted a new Roadmap developed by RRI-supported Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and established a multi-sectoral Working Group on Forest Tenure, inclusive of ministries, to craft…
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
RRI co-sponsored the historic National Conference for Land Reform in the DRC in Kinshasa and launched a Tenure Baseline Study Launch Workshop. The Congolese Government…
In a groundbreaking development in Cameroon,
, RRI collaborators’ efforts resulted in the government’s declassification of around 30,000 ha. of forestland from forest concessions. The land was placed under community/customary management.
Pit-sawing was legally recognized
and a progressive Land Policy was developed with civil society and community input. Additionally, the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) responded to RRI’s…
RRI published unprecedented strategic analyses
on the global progress of tenure reform, including the report, What Rights? A Comparative Analysis of Developing Countries’ National Legislation on Community and Indigenous Peoples’…
RRI’s Global Dialogue on Scaling-Up Strategies
to Reduce Emissions and Advance Development in Forest Areas in Washington DC triggered new conversations and connections among forest community rights advocates, conservation organizations, and…
RRI’s efforts propelled substantial strengthening of government
commitment for tenure reform in five target countries—Laos, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, India and Colombia—and significant, national-level progress in four others—Liberia, Peru, China, and…
In Peru, RRI helped in the registration
of approximately 200 native forest communities, which paved the way for the next steps toward recognition of collective land rights for indigenous communities in the…
Afro-descendant and indigenous forest communities
in Colombia influenced the government and the World Bank to create a more inclusive and participatory Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) for the national REDD+ strategy.
The “Participatory Cartography and Rights to Territory and Resources” conference
in Bogota set new parameters for analyzing who, why and how communities should/could utilize approaches to mapping for their needs in the future.
RRI obtained a historic
and unprecedented commitment by the Government of Indonesia to launch a forest tenure reform process and recognize indigenous land claims. This achievement came about at…
RRI and IUCN co-founded
the Tenure Champions’ National Platform in Burkina Faso, a group of civil society organizations engaged in advocacy for land and forest tenure policies favorable to…
The African Women’s Network
for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) was admitted to Cameroon’s national platform on REDD and climate change and identified its focal points to five Cameroonian…
A road map for institutionalizing community mapping
in Cameroon led to a concrete proposal on the revision of the 1994 forest law.
RRI conducted an unprecedented legal
analysis of 61 Community Forest Tenure Regimes in 30 countries for its 2012 report on the state of forest tenure 1992-2012, in preparation for the…
RRI held two global RRI Dialogues on Forests,
Governance and Climate Change in London and The Hague which contributed to RRI’s analysis to REDD narrative and introduced RRI in discussions on food security….
RRI’s regional RRI Dialogue for Mesoamerica,
held in El Salvador, provided a space for frank and open discussion between decision makers and civil society organizations on the role of forests in…
Lowland indigenous organizations
in Bolivia bolstered negotiation capacity and participated in governmental decision-making at the governmental on key legislation related to territorial rights, representation and natural resource management.
A Regional Dialogue in Nepal
on Community Forests and Property Rights in the Context of Climate Change, held in Nepal, established new connections between national- and local-level stakeholders, and took…
RRI collaborators introduced new analysis
on effectiveness of implementation of India’s 2006 Forest Rights Act, which strengthened local and international stakeholders’ understanding of statewide reforms and national issues.
The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry
formally recognizing a need for greater indigenous and community rights through legal reforms, spurring a dialogue on palm oil and climate change issues in the…
The regional dialogue on Forests,
Governance and Climate Change held in Ethiopia fostered new links with the Land Policy Initiative (LPI), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), high-level…
A strong coalition of networks
in Ghana led a well-organized campaign and influenced the Presidential Commission assigned to amend the Constitution to strengthen natural resource tenure and governance policies.
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