A new paper from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Forest Trends and RRI examines the experience of federal countries in managing their decentralized systems…
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Study reveals rising role of local communities in protecting forests
A new paper from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on forest-based grassroots movements in Latin America concludes that local communities can become effective forest…
ATEMs studies conducted across Africa identify alternative models accelerate pro-poor growth
RRI conducted case studies of Alternative Tenure and Enterprise Models (ATEMs) in community forest enterprises in Ghana, Cameroon, the Gambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo,…
RRI’s regional Dialogue on extractive industries,
communities, and territorial rights in Bogota, Colombia addressed the boom in the extractive industries in Latin America. The Dialogue brought together NGOs and community leaders…
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 Nepal, key political parties
endorsed community forestry on record in their election manifestoes and platforms due in large part to RRI advocacy, culminating in successful Constituent Assembly election. RRI…
RRI released two new,
groundbreaking reports investigating the real financial consequences of investing land with disputed tenure rights. The reports, The Financial Risks of Insecure Land Tenure: An Investment…
RRI established a collaboration
to advance community land rights reform with Oxfam, International Land Coalition, IUCN, and Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, and convened a major global summit on recognition of…
In Bolivia, RRI collaborators
successfully advocated to halt the government’s plans for opening a highway through the TIPNIS.
In Guatemala, RRI supported local communities
and their allied NGOs in establishing a mechanism for civil society monitoring of the implementation of the communal lands registry and cadastre process. The Guatemalan…
In India, the government
issued new Forest Rights Act Amendment Rules 2012 that strengthen collective rights and restrict bureaucratic powers over forest dwelling communities. This issuance was a direct…
In Indonesia, the Government
accepted a new Roadmap developed by RRI-supported Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and established a multi-sectoral Working Group on Forest Tenure, inclusive of ministries, to craft…
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 published unprecedented strategic analyses
on the global progress of tenure reform, including the report, What Rights? A Comparative Analysis of Developing Countries’ National Legislation on Community and Indigenous Peoples’…
RRI’s Global Dialogue on Scaling-Up Strategies
to Reduce Emissions and Advance Development in Forest Areas in Washington DC triggered new conversations and connections among forest community rights advocates, conservation organizations, and…
RRI’s efforts propelled substantial strengthening of government
commitment for tenure reform in five target countries—Laos, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, India and Colombia—and significant, national-level progress in four others—Liberia, Peru, China, and…
In Peru, RRI helped in the registration
of approximately 200 native forest communities, which paved the way for the next steps toward recognition of collective land rights for indigenous communities in the…
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
in Bogota set new parameters for analyzing who, why and how communities should/could utilize approaches to mapping for their needs in the future.
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…
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…
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