On August 28-29, the International Knowledge Sharing and Learning Workshop on Land and Forest Tenure Reform was held in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Hosted by the…
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and its partners carried out a series of six investigations on the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in…
The network of civil society organizations promoting the Roadmap for Tenure Reform in Indonesia gathered in Jakarta on August 9-10 at the Workshop on Data…
On August 1, FECOFUN organized an issues-based discussion in Barandavar, Chitwan district, Nepal, where the Barandavar area Community Forest Committees issued a manifesto against the…
The Rural Development Institute, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences (RDI-YASS) completed two case studies in Lijiang and Diqing, Yunnan Province, China, as the final two…
On July 21, the International Workshop on Gender and Forest Tenure in Asia and Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China was held in Beijing, hosted…
The Asia Indigenous Women?s Strategy Workshop on Climate Change and Forest/Land Tenure was held from August 16-18 in Baguio City, Philippines. Organized by Tebtebba in…
RRI published a new suite of research, Securing Women?s Tenure and Leadership for Forest Management, which shows that despite more understanding, more resources and policy…
Fred Ngeywo Kibelio of Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples’ Development Project (from the Ogiek community at Mt Elgon, Kenya) and Udom Charoenniyomphrai (from Inter Mountain Peoples Education…
On July 23-27, RRI co-organized the annual international workshop, Rethinking Forest Regulations in Western Montana, in partnership with the US Forest Service and the Montana…
On July 19-21, RRI co-sponsored the National Conference for Land Reform in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The conference launched the land reform…
As a part of RRI?s strategy in Bolivia, IPHAE led a series of 16 workshops between April and June on territorial governance and the opportunities…
At the June 26 Seminar on ?Early Actions, Forest Governance, and the Process of the National REDD+ Strategy,? in Santa Marta, Colombia, representatives of forest…
ACOFOP and Ut?zChe? organized an exchange between Guatemalan forest communities and community representatives from Peru and Colombia from May 21-25 in Guatemala. The groups visited…
Participants at the June 18 seminar on ?The Role of Communities in Forest Management in the Altiplano? [highland plateau] in Guatemala analyzed the way in…
The Instituto del Bien Com?n launched two studies on the state of the communal property system led by experts in the field. The first study,…
On April 15-17 in Zungaracocha, Peru, AIDESEP convened a workshop with ORPIO and CORPI-SL on Peruvian indigenous forest territory, the national REDD+ process, and its…
On May 28-29, Centre for Environment and Development (CED) organized a national multi- stakeholder workshop advocating for the centrality of secure community tenure to successful…
The African Women?s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) identified main advocacy activities geared towards forest tenure with an emphasis on women at a…
On June 10, Coop?rative Agroforesti?re de la Trinationale?s workshop advocating for legislation favorable to small and medium community forest enterprises in Cameroon produced two major…
Following advocacy by Green Advocates and the RRI coalition in Liberia, the Forestry Development Authority adopted regulations to recognize small-scale loggers (pit-sawyers) and their right…
The Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), HuMa, Pusaka, and Sawit Watch held capacity building workshops in the Animha and Semangga Districts of Indonesia to assist the…
FPP and members of the RRI Indonesia Country coalition convened in-depth discussions with the UK Climate Change Unit and the Ministry of Forestry to present…
In May, the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry issued an official Decree on the creation of a working group for the Macro Plan on Forest Tenure….