With the help of the government, RRI’s collaborators in Guatemala designed a proposal for creating better opportunities to ensure legal incentives for community forestry acrtivities…
On June 11-12, the Network of Parliamentarians for the Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystems (REPAR) held a Parliament-Government Dialogue in Yaound? on the…
Representatives of Nepal?s three largest political parties (Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, and Maoist) and representative from FECOFUN worked together to draft position papers on community rights…
Recommendations put forward by the Land Issues Working Group (LIWG) and RRI on the draft National Land Use Policy were presented via the United Nations…
On April 17-18, a workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia reflected on the progress of forest tenure reform underway in the country, and formulated a multi-sectoral follow-up…
RRI, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Environmental Investigation Agency-US, FERN, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), Global Witness, HELVETAS-Swiss Intercooperation, International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI),…
The Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders seminar, held in Oaxaca, Mexico from May 27-31, gathered senior officials from public forest agencies in Brazil, Cameroon,…
At the 14th Dialogue, RRI launched a new analysis on The Impact of Extractive Industries on the Collective Land and Forest Rights of People and…
On March 21-22, RRI held its 14th Regional Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change in Bogot?, Colombia, titled, Extractive Industries, Communities and Territorial Rights:…
On March 5-7, RRI held the 13th Regional Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change for Central and West Africa in Yaound?, Cameroon. It was…
The Land Issues Working Group (LIWG) of Lao PDR and local civil society organizations submitted key recommendations for the country?s draft National Land Policy, which…
In March, the All China Women?s Federation (ACWF), a leading advocate of women?s rights in China, formally presented a proposal to China?s State Forest Administration…
On February 5, RRI released its annual review on the state of rights and resources for 2012-2013, Landowners or Laborers: What choice will developing countries…
On March 9-10, RRI?s Communications and Outreach team organized, in collaboration with Cameroon Ecology, a site visit to selected villages in Southern Cameroon for five…
Noting the multiple threats to the tenure security of millions of the world’s poor and a welcome growing awareness of the importance of land rights…
In Nicaragua, Instituto de Investigaci?n y Desarrollo NITLAPAN prepared a training course for indigenous, afro-descendant, and campesino peoples on territorial governance, which included inputs from…
In Bolivia, Instituto Para el Hombre Agricultura y Ecologia (IPHAE) compiled its work with communities and territorial organizations during 2012 in two documents detailing the…
In Bolivia, Centro de Estudios Jur?dicos e Investigaci?n Social (CEJIS) published a legal proposal promoting integrated development in the Amazon region, with participation from indigenous…
In Guatemala on November 12, Centro de Investigaciones y Proyectos para el Desarrollo y la Paz (CEIDEPAZ) held a second meeting with representatives of public…
In Guatemala, Ut?z Che? finished developing a methodology and preparing series of case studies to systematize experiences in collective lands management and recognition across the…
In the South American sub-region, Instituto Latinoamericano para una Sociedad y un Derecho Alternativos (ILSA) led a series of analyses and workshops to define a…
In Liberia, the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) held a conference for representatives of communities affected by palm oil companies, Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum, in…
On November 13 in Mali, HELVETAS-Swiss Intercooperation held a validation workshop with grassroots associations and local government to review a study on tenure security and…
In Cameroon, FPP?s work to train Baka communities in the Ngoyla Mintom to map their lands culminated in formal presentations of the maps and dialogue…