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Building resilience through community forestry: RECOFTC annual report,...
Read RECOFTC’s digital annual report, “Building resilience through community forestry.” This report covers the period October 2017 to September 2019. It...
Special Report
Video competition 2020: Forests and pandemics
Tell us in a 1-minute video how can protecting forests prevent pandemics for a chance to win a GoPro camera and be recognised by the UN! The deadline is 8 November 2020. The video...
Special Report
Community forests: Centres of people power and networks of support
Meet individuals and communities who, empowered by the benefits of community forestry, are helping to achieve RECOFTC’s vision of communities living equitably,...
Story
Lung bamboo, Viet Nam’s bank in the backyard
When Nong Thi Huong talks about what bamboo means to her and her ethnic Thai community in northern Viet Nam, she tells a tale of economic, ecological and personal transformation. In...
Special Report
Defining and assessing the effectiveness of civil society networks working...
Research in 12 countries provides insights into the multifaceted nature of ‘effectiveness’ as it applies to networks of environmental civil society...
News
COP26 forests declaration must strengthen rights of local communities
The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use was announced at COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference, on 2 November 2021. To date, 134 countries...
Story
More ambition needed from ASEAN Member States on forests and climate change
When Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet in Glasgow next month for the COP26 conference, much attention...
Story
Nature based solutions: Old wine in new bottles or a necessary evolution?
There has been an unprecedented shift in global perceptions and appetite for action on climate change over the past several years. The shift is due to...
Story
Change the training, change everything
In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, Mardha Tillah travelled to Bangkok for a workshop on gender leadership. At that time, she was the executive director of the...
Story
Closing the gender gap in forest governance in Cambodia
Gender leaders in Cambodia are working to mainstream gender equality in the forestry sector. Forestry is associated with labour-intensive work. Timber harvesting, forest...
Publication
Facilitating agreements for community–private sector partnerships in...
This guide helps practitioners facilitate partnership agreements for the sustainable trade of forest products and/or services in the context of forest...
Special Report
How community forests boosted pandemic resilience across Asia-Pacific
Research in seven Asian countries reveals how community forests increased people’s resilience to the COVID-19-induced restrictions and why recovery plans...
Special Report
RECOFTC's response to COVID-19
As the world marshals to fight the new coronavirus we must also continue to fight climate change and a third crisis emerging stronger than ever— injustice. Our response is community forestry.
Recent News
21 Dec 2021
Across the Asia-Pacific region, significant gaps in education about forests threaten efforts to limit climate change, conserve biodiversity and...
02 Dec 2021
Civil society organizations have been on the frontline of improving forest governance across the Mekong region over the past five years as part of...
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Learning Center
The Learning Center contains frequently asked questions about community forestry, our current training schedule, as well as additional online learning material and courses.
Recent Stories
Talk of the Forest
The 2017 June-September monsoon season in South Asia was one of the most devastating the region had experienced in decades. In Nepal, monsoon rains...
Notes from the Field
Nepali journalists attended a media training boot camp organized by RECOFTC Nepal to promote gender equity and social inclusion in the forest...
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