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RRI partners FPP and collaborator CED provide a supplementary report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Cameroon’s failure to uphold international law
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RRI analysizes the status, risks, operational lessons, and impacts of recognizing rights to natural resources in Mozambique
RRI?s latest working paper, Reviewing the Status, Risks, Operational Lessons and Impacts of Recognizing Rights to Natural Resources in Mozambique, provides an analysis of the…
Green Advocates assess Liberia’s timber industry and its implications for Liberia’s community forestry and REDD policies
Green Advocates’ latest report, An Assessment of Liberian Forest Area, Dynamics, FDA Concession Plans, and their Relevance to Revenue Projectionprovides a historical overview of the…
Key forest stakeholders develop a shared advocacy strategy to support community tenure rights in Cameroon
In Cameroon, key parliamentarians, government officials from Cameroon’s Ministery of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF), opinion leaders, traditional chiefs, NGOs, and RRI developed an advocacy strategy…
ITTO presents key analysis and and recommendations for community forest governance
The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) latest tropical forest update (volume 19, number 2) presents key analysis and recommendations for enhancing community forestry.
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.
Following RRI’s advocacy,
the Liberian government’s commitment to implementation of the 2006 Forest Law, its regulations and a new Community Rights Law established a mandate for communities to…
The first convening on Global Issues in Governance in Pennsylvania,
US, exposed and connected emerging “next generation” leaders from MegaFlorestais agencies to tenure, governance and rights issues relevant to their work.
Organized the MegaFlorestais 2010 meeting in China,
which built on 5 years of annual meetings by leaders of public agencies from the world’s largest forest countries.
Compiled a new dataset
on depth of statutory tenure rights in 15 countries and made extensive forest tenure data for 40 countries available online.
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