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’ latest report, An Assessment of Liberian Forest Area, Dynamics, FDA Concession Plans, and their Relevance to Revenue Projectionprovides a historical overview of the…
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…
The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) latest tropical forest update (volume 19, number 2) presents key analysis and recommendations for enhancing community forestry.
The new governance team of the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) to the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) held a panel discussion on policy recommendations…
At the 2009 MegaFlorestais meeting, public forest agency leaders from the world?s most forested countries discussed their experiences with forest tenure reform, market transitions, and…
CARE, the Federation of community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN), and Forest Watch Ghana, with support from RRI, published the report, From Needs to Rights, which…
The second Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change gathered experts from governments, NGOs, academia and the private sector to discuss the international…
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the Centre for Economic Development (CED) worked with the indigenous Bagyeli people in Cameroon to map the community’s use of…
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) held a press conference to address the lack of equitable social protection and benefits in forest-carbon markets. Discussions…
Following a workshop on best practices in nut management on community controlled lands, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) published a study entitled El…
Intercooperation organized a workshop in Mali to enhance local conventions of natural resource management. At the workshop, participants shared their local their resource management methods,…
According to a legal review commissioned by RRI partners Forest Trends, the indigenous Surui people of the Amazon basin have legal ownership of the forest-carbon…
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences ( FLACSO-Guatemala) produced two new reports highlighting the issues and relationship…
A new publication co-sponsored by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Rights-based approaches: Exploring Issues…
RRI and collaborators successfully established the Independent Advisory Group (IAG) to the UNREDD Policy Board ? a body that will provide a platform for civil…
Expert thought leaders on the role of forest governance and tenure rights in combating climate change gathered for RRI’s and Chatham House first Dialogue on…
Intercooperation’s latest report, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in Nepal?s Forest Sector: How Can Rural Communities Benefit, outlines possible strategies for addressing the negative…
RRI produced a new regional brief on Asia, Who Owns the Forests of Asia? An introduction to the forest tenure transition in Asia, 2002-2008. The…
In Central Africa, the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and local collaborators published a new analyses highlighting the loss of resource and legal rights for Indigenous…
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) co-organized the first regional forum for people and forests, Carbon Financing and Community Forestry. The forum brought together…
PERT, the Association of Forest Communities (ACOFOP), and Utz’ Che, with the participation of several peasant and indigenous organizations, coalitions and other NGOs assessed Guatemala’s…
The Federation of community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN) and Intercooperation, in collaboration with the Government of Nepal, organized an international community forest workshop in Pokhara,…
In a South-South Dialogue on Community Rights, Forests and Climate Change organized by RRI and TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, India), leading representatives from…