RRI organizará y participará en varios eventos durante la Semana del Clima de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York 2025 (NYCW). Promoveremos el papel de…
Welcome to everything related to RRI’s engagements at London Climate Action Week! Happening in London from June 21 to 29, 2025, LCAW is a unique…
Welcome to RRI’s CSW69 agenda! The 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) aims to promote women’s rights by documenting…
Every year, UN Climate Week in New York City offers a pivotal opportunity for global leaders, innovators, and activists to converge and tackle the most…
Africa is home to one-quarter of the planet’s biodiversity and has a network of protected areas covering 17% of its land mass—including national parks, game…
Fourth Regional Conference of National Land Institutions on Securing Community Land Rights in Africa
African governments and regional institutions are increasingly recognizing the importance of acknowledging and securing the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as a…
For water governance to be truly inclusive and sustainable, it must account for community-based and customary water tenure rights. This session highlights evidence-based governance mechanisms…
The RRI Technical Expert Workshop on Gender Justice, Indigenous and Rural Women’s Collective Land and Resource Rights in Africa was held in Accra, Ghana, from 20-21 July 2017, and was comprised of a diverse group of experts as well as RRI Partners and Collaborators who gathered to share their perspectives on the state of gender and tenure issues in the region.
This panel event brings together experts, Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' representatives, government officials, and representatives from private companies and their investors to discuss the future of community land rights.
The panel will focus on the role and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the global struggle to combat climate change. Special attention…
The Government of Liberia has recently introduced a number of reforms in the management of land and natural resources, with a view towards encouraging economic…
In the context of national development, the government of DRC recently launched a plan to establish agro-industrial parks throughout the country. Twenty-two agro-industrial parks will…
In 2016, CACO, the RRI-supported national civil society platform on tenure, conducted a study documenting the consideration of women’s rights in DRC’s laws and policies,…
Together with local Collaborators, the Rights and Resources Initiative is partnering with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Sustainable Development;…
The RRI Cameroon Coalition will hold a multi-stakeholder dialogue from March 2 – 3 in Kribi, Cameroon, to consolidate advocacy efforts around key elements of…
A ROUNDTABLE TO DEVELOP PRACTICAL PLANS TO ASSIST AND IMPLEMENT THE GOVERNMENT’S NEW VISION FOR LIBERIA’S FORESTS Visit the conference website Most of Liberia’s people…
The IUCN World Parks Congress is a landmark global forum on protected areas held every ten years. As the world’s most influential gathering of people…
The national CSOs think-tank/platform on tenure (CACO) and its coordination, which includes Natural Resources Network (RRN), the Council for the Environmental Defense through legality and…
On September 15, 2014, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, in collaboration with Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the National Agency of Waters and Forests (DNEF), will…
OSLO – Q&A discussion on the groundbreaking new report, Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change: How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change. The paper — a joint venture between…
On August 7, 2014, the Groupe Pivot Droit et Citoyenneté des Femmes (GPDCF) will be organizing a studies restitution workshop with national authorities hosted by…
From July 22-23, the Network of Parliamentarians for the Management of Forests and Ecosystems in Central Africa (REPAR) will be holding a parliamentarian workshop at…
Chatham House and the Rights and Resources Initiative held an expert workshop on ‘Small-scale and community forest producers: challenges and opportunities of legality verification’. This…
From 14 to May 16, the Rights and Resources Initiative and its Collaborators in Cameroon will be organizing a training workshop for journalists, at Hotel…