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In Peru, RRI helped in the registration
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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
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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…
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