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 in upcoming discussions on legislation reforms and revisions to the Forest Incentives and Climate Change Laws.?In May and June 2013, the National Association of Community Forestry, Utz Che, the Peten community organization, ACOFOP, and the National Alliance of Community Forestry Organizations, convened a series of discussions on the defense of collective rights and lands, which led to the creation of specific recommendations for upcoming negotiations on the law?s provision with both the national government and private sector actors. These coordinated efforts will better prepare civil society to promote community forestry activities as suitable incentives in the laws during the upcoming negotiations.