Pushback: Local Power and Global Realignment in Advancing Forests for People

RRI/ACICAFOC Side Event UNFF9

January 28" 2011

There has been an upswing of local engagement in new initiatives to address drivers of deforestation and degradation in the forest sector. A key question that forest communities and their organizations are asking is: if community-based forest management and enterprise (CBFM) had the right enabling environment –recognition of customary tenure rights and a positive regulatory framework --would this better support rights" REDD readiness" and livelihoods. RRI will present a report CBFM and local and global realignment" and indigenous and community leaders from Central America will report back on their engagement in Cancun and on the potential for CBFM to expand significantly with the right support.

Chair: Jan McAlpine" Director" UNFF Secretariat

1:15 pm Opening Remarks

1:20 pm Local Power and Global Realignment in Advancing Forests for People

                Andy White" Coordinator" Rights and Resources Initiative

1:30 pm Potential of Community Based Forest Management and Enterprise

                Augusta Molnar" Director" Senior Director" Country & Regional Programs" Rights and Resources Group

1:40 pm Perspectives from Guatemala

                Marcedonio Cortave" Executive Director" ACOFOP

1:48 pm Perspectives from Nicaragua

                Brooklyn Rivera" RAAN

1:56 pm Perspectives from Belize

                Alfonso Esteban Caal" Chairman Golden Stream" Toledo District

2:04 pm Perspectives from Costa Rica           

                Levi Sucre" Red Indígena Huetar Atlántica

Other panelists from Central America include: Alfonso Caal" Preside of Toledo Maya Council" Belize and Norvin Goff" President" MASTA Organization" Miskito" Hoduras

2:13 pm Comments"

                Chandra Roy" Chief" Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

2:16 pm Comments"

                Alhassan Attah" Ghana

2:20 pm Open Discussion

2:40 pm Closing Remarks

                Chair" Jan McAlpine