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Chapters Working towards impact

Introduction

  1. Foreword
  2. Message from the Executive Director
  3. The year that was
  4. Working towards impact

Ensuring forest landscapes provide climate solutions

  1. Eight forests, six countries and a shared framework for learning
  2. New terms for community forestry in Riau, Indonesia
  3. Community forest groups in Nepal invest in recharge ponds
  4. Moving beyond monoculture in Viet Nam’s coffee farms

Securing rights and inclusive governance

  1. Making forest tenure processes work for women
  2. Planning for forests through participation
  3. Strengthening inclusive governance in Chitwan’s buffer zones

Supporting growth of forest landscape-related businesses

  1. Building a mangrove business around mud crabs
  2. From forest management to forest income
  3. Building stronger coffee businesses in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands

Securing finance for sustainable forest landscapes

  1. Restoring watersheds, one tree at a time

Generating evidence for influence

  1. Chiang Mai’s community forests take ownership of biodiversity data
  2. Building a regional research community
  3. From development site to urban conservation area
  4. Mapping oil palm from the ground up
  5. Thai community forests earn Green Globe recognition

Engaging the public on forest landscape issues

  1. A new generation of forest guardians
  2. Community members map their forests in western Thailand
  3. Peering into curtained forests
  1. Board of Trustees
  2. Our project donors, partners and networks
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Working towards impact

Our vision, our approach

In a time of climate crisis, environmental degradation and rising inequality, communities that live in and around forests are on the frontlines. RECOFTC’s vision is clear: resilient communities that sustainably and equitably manage forest landscapes in collaboration with other stakeholders. Our four interconnected goals – enhanced climate change adaptation and mitigation, improved gender equality and social inclusion, improved governance and respect for rights and increased economic benefits for communities – all work towards this vision. In our Strategic Plan 2023–2028, we have six priority strategies and tactics driving our work. This report is organized around these strategies. Each chapter captures how we are:

  • ensuring that forest landscapes provide climate solutions
  • securing rights and inclusive governance
  • supporting the growth of forest landscape-related businesses
  • securing finance for sustainable forest landscapes
  • generating evidence for influence
  • engaging the public on forest landscape issues

Together, they present our efforts on the ground to ensure sustainable forest landscape management.

RECOFTC’s work is made possible with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Government of Sweden.