A technical follow-up meeting to the Interlaken Conference on Scaling-up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights, held in September, 2013 produced a conceptual…
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Workshop shares best practices on forest and land management in Thailand
RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests collaborated with Chiang Mai University and other strategic partners in organizing the 2nd Policy Dialogue on “Forest…
Seminar calls for strengthening community participation in national forest governance in Thailand
The National Seminar on Community Forestry for Social Justice and Sustainable Reform in Thailand, co-organized by the Thai Royal Forest Department, Community Forestry Network-Thailand and…
Meeting identifies emerging issues in community forestry from global perspective
The Global Alliance of Community Forestry (GACF) annual meeting, “Strengthening community forestry networks and federation to secure tenure rights, strengthen community-based forest enterprise and enhance…
Seminar shares community experiences in developing coping mechanisms for natural disasters
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) hosted a one-day seminar on community forestry and agroforestry responses to climate change-related disasters. Over 50 participants gathered…
Global forestry leaders receive training to improve understanding of rights and tenure issues
The Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources International Training gathered next generation leaders from eight forest ministries ? including Brazil, Canada, China, DRC, Indonesia,…
New regional network in South East Asia will monitor the palm oil frontier and advocate for rights-based approach
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), and the Samdhana Institute convened two regional workshops in Thailand and the Philippines to…
At MegaFlorestais, global forest agency leaders share best practices in forest tenure reform
MegaFlorestais 2010 took place September 20-23 in Wuyishan, Fujian Province, China. Forest agency leaders from Indonesia, China, DRC, Canada, USA, Cameroon, Brazil and Mexico shared…
MegaFlorestais holds its 3rd Annual Meeting
During the 3rd annual MegaFlorestais meeting, forest agency leaders discussed avoided deforestation and the global bio-energy market, with a focus on REDD and carbon finance…..
RECOFTC launches a new network of forest communities in Thailand
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) launched a new network of forest communities in Thailand, the Community Forestry Assembly of Thailand, along with a…
Study examines the experiences of countries in decentralized forest governance
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…
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…
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…
RRI conducted an unprecedented legal
analysis of 61 Community Forest Tenure Regimes in 30 countries for its 2012 report on the state of forest tenure 1992-2012, in preparation for the…
RRI held two global RRI Dialogues on Forests,
Governance and Climate Change in London and The Hague which contributed to RRI’s analysis to REDD narrative and introduced RRI in discussions on food security….
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.
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.
Effectively advocated for a dramatic increase in budget support
for community programs, inclusion of gender and tenure in the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)’s next biennial work program.
Hosted two global Dialogues on Forests,
Governance and Climate Change in London and Washington DC which contributed to resituating the REDD debate.
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