RRI, HELVETAS, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation organized a workshop on ownership and access rights in the Sahel, focusing on local rights…
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FPP coordinates studies of land and forest laws in five Central African countries
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An analysis surveying forest tenure and community awareness of legal rights to forest land in Mali and Niger provide important insight in advancing forest rights in these two countries
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ATEMs workshop held in Liberia to promotes alternative, locally-led development approaches to accelerate pro-poor growth
RRI and collaborators provoked discussion of alternative tenure and enterprise models in Liberia during a workshop at the University of Liberia in Monrovia. The seminar…
Study analyzes market conditions and obstacles faced by African forest communities
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ATEMs studies conducted across Africa identify alternative models accelerate pro-poor growth
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RRI engaged forest
land, and mining ministry officials from Central West Africa in a regional dialogue in March on the challenges of coherent land allocation for large-scale agroindustry,…
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
RRI co-sponsored the historic National Conference for Land Reform in the DRC in Kinshasa and launched a Tenure Baseline Study Launch Workshop. The Congolese Government…
In a groundbreaking development in Cameroon,
, RRI collaborators’ efforts resulted in the government’s declassification of around 30,000 ha. of forestland from forest concessions. The land was placed under community/customary management.
Pit-sawing was legally recognized
and a progressive Land Policy was developed with civil society and community input. Additionally, the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) responded to RRI’s…
RRI and IUCN co-founded
the Tenure Champions’ National Platform in Burkina Faso, a group of civil society organizations engaged in advocacy for land and forest tenure policies favorable to…
The African Women’s Network
for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) was admitted to Cameroon’s national platform on REDD and climate change and identified its focal points to five Cameroonian…
A road map for institutionalizing community mapping
in Cameroon led to a concrete proposal on the revision of the 1994 forest law.
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…
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…
RRI’s advocacy led to the passing
of the Communities Rights Law in Liberia with strong rights language
6 catalytic investments
supporting pilots or implementation (Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali, Liberia)
12 new analytical products
focused on national legal and policy reforms
5 National-level conferences/workshops
(Cameroon, Liberia, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso)
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