Partners

RECOFTC operates through strategic partnerships and collaboration with numerous institutions, programs, projects, and networks. General working relationships may include:

• Institutional Partners. These are organizations that support or contribute resources to RECOFTC as a corporate body, either on a long-term basis or for an indefinite time. Such partnerships are characterized by mutual commitment to a shared organizational vision, a capacity to sustain long-term commitment, and mutual trust.
• Strategic or Program Partners. These are organizations that contribute resources to the identification, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of RECOFTC's programs and activities. They include but are not limited to funding agencies. These partners have an expressed interest, commitment, and capacity to support RECOFTC's operations over a longer period of time.
• Project Partners. These partners contribute resources to a specific set of activities for a specified period of time - a process that also helps to establish linkages and working relationships with other organizations. The responsibilities and contributions of each party are specified in a project document, signed by the authorized representatives of the parties involved.
• Network Partners. These partners periodically exchange information, knowledge, and advice, and generally share mutual expectations of a long-term relationship with RECOFTC. They are characterized by their expertise in community forestry or community-based natural resource management in specific geographic or thematic areas, their willingness to share experiences with like-minded organizations, and their commitment to establishing linkages and working relationships with other organizations.
• Collaborating Organizations. This group works with RECOFTC without any expectation of a longer-term relationship. The working arrangement is less formal than with network partners.
• Clients. These are users of RECOFTC's facilities, services, and products. They may purchase these services or products, or may be beneficiaries of RECOFTC's training and materials.
  
  

RECOFTC works with partners at the international, regional, national, and local level.

International and Regional Partners

ASEAN Social Forestry Network (ASFN) 

Asia Foundation

AusAID

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Denmark's International Development Assistance (DANIDA)

Department for International Development of the UK (DFID)

East-West Center

European Commission

Ford Foundation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Forest Trends

German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ)

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

International Agricultural Centre (IAC)

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

International Development Research Center (IDRC)

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

International Model Forest Network Secretariat

International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)

IUCN-World Conservation Union

Japanese Social Development Fund (JSDF/World Bank)

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Kenan Institute

LTS International

Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Programme

Mekong River Commission (MRC)

The Mountain Institute

Non-Timber Forest Products Sub-Sector Support Project

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Regional Government Forestry Agencies

Rights and Resources Group

Royal Norwegian Government

Royal Thai Government

Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA)

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Toyota Foundation

United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

University of Reading's International and Rural Development Department

US Agency for International Development (USAID)

WWF UK