RRI supported more than a dozen pilot communities

in six countries in Latin America to take their tenure and management claims to a higher level of dispute, with clear data, maps and assessment…

Supported the establishment

of the first alliance of forest community organizations from highlands and lowlands in Guatemala, increasing their visibility and voice in national policy issues related to…

Established a national level

Bolivian working group of key NGOs – linking highlands analysts to lowland analysts and practitioners – to help the key indigenous and peasant organizations analyze…

The government in Laos

agreed to a new proposal by RRI to study and learn from tenure reforms in other countries to promote tenure reforms supported by key government…

Effectively introduced concepts

of regulatory takings and need for grievance redress mechanisms to key policy makers in China.

A national-level confederation

of natural resource user groups in Nepal established a multi-party constituent assembly forum and used RRI analysis to advocate for constitutional guarantee to community rights…

RRI’s regional meetings and workshops

in Africa’s Sahel region elevated the potential of local conventions to legally guide decentralized natural resource management and empower pastoralists, women, and other marginal populations.

Held the International Conference on Forest Governance,

Tenure and Enterprise in Yaoundé, Cameroon which catalyzed new, unprecedented commitments to strengthen rights in Central and West Africa among forest and land agencies, parliamentarian…

Laid the groundwork

for scaling-up critical thinking on ATEMS by producing 16 ATEMS briefs analyzing experiences and lessons from community forestry enterprises and LLSL learning.

Hosted two global Dialogues on Forests,

Governance and Climate Change in London and Washington DC which contributed to resituating the REDD debate.

5 catalytic projects

supporting pilots or implementation reforms (Bolivia, Guatemala, Suriname, Central America, Amazonia)

5 new analyses/reports

on national-level reforms

9 catalytic investments

in pilots or implementation (China, Lao, Nepal)

5 new analyses

focused on national reforms in China and Nepal

6 catalytic investments

supporting pilots or implementation (Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali, Liberia)

12 new analytical products

focused on national legal and policy reforms

Catalyzed critical reflection

on forest concessions and viable alternative tenure and enterprise models in Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia

2 new global analyses

of the state of forest tenure: From Exclusion to Ownership? and Seeing People Through the Trees

Conducted private advisory session

on forest rights with governments party to UNFCCC and members of the REDD Contact Group and recommended agreement text