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RECOFTC Myanmar
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With a long-term, landscape-based and inclusive approach to supporting local communities, RECOFTC Myanmar has been working to promote sustainable forestry practices in the country since 1987.

Working with relevant stakeholders, we help strengthen the implementation of sustainable landscape management in Myanmar.  We enhance capacity in forest management and stakeholder engagement as we work to strengthen resilience to climate change and disasters.

Securing Myanmar's threatened Dawna Tenasserim landscape

This transboundary landscape of 4.7 million hectares stretches across the Dawna and the Tenasserim mountain ranges, the Malay Peninsula and into Thailand.

Securing Myanmar's threatened Inle Lake landscape

Inle Lake landscape is a historic, cultural and biodiversity hotspot. Its wetlands support many endemic fish, snails and plant species. Seven ethnic communities call the Inle Lake home. 

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Projects from Myanmar
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Project status
Past project

Transformative land investment

This project aims to enhance land and ecosystem health while promoting equitable and gender-transformative improvements in food and tenure security...

Location:
Lao PDR
Myanmar
Duration:
01 February 2022 - 31 December 2025
Donors:
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
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Project status
Ongoing project

The Mekong Regional Land Governance (Phase III)

This is a collaborative initiative aimed at improving land and forest resource governance in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam. 

Location:
Cambodia
Lao PDR
Myanmar
Viet Nam
Duration:
02 November 2023 - 30 September 2025
Donors:
Land Equity International
Inle lake
Project status
Past project

Feasibility assessment for potential carbon project in eastern Inle Lake landscape, Myanmar

This project conducted a feasibility assessment for a potential carbon project in the eastern Inle Lake landscape of Myanmar.

Location:
Myanmar
Duration:
30 October 2022 - 30 June 2023
Donors:
Value Network Ventures Advisory Services Pte. Ltd.
Myanmar
Project status
Past project

Community forest certification in Myanmar

This project aims to strengthen community forestry practices and land tenure security in Myanmar.

Location:
Myanmar
Duration:
01 March 2023 - 28 February 2025
Donors:
Landesa
Myanmar
Project status
Ongoing project

Change beyond supply chains, driving positive landscape transformation through inclusive business models

This project aims to develop sustainable business models in Myanmar and Viet Nam, addressing environmental degradation through nature-positive...

Location:
Myanmar
Viet Nam
Duration:
01 March 2024 - 28 February 2027
Donors:
International Institute for Environment and Development
Landscape
Project status
Ongoing project

Explore

Explore is a research network and community of practice dedicated to expanding and applying knowledge on forest landscape governance in Southeast Asia...

Location:
Timor-Leste
Cambodia
Indonesia
Lao PDR
Myanmar
Philippines
Thailand
Viet Nam
Duration:
22 April 2021 - 30 September 2027
Donors:
Government of Sweden
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Project status
Past project

Voices for Mekong Forests

This project was an initiative aimed at strengthening forest landscape governance in the Mekong region, where an estimated 85 million people depend on...

Location:
Cambodia
Lao PDR
Myanmar
Thailand
Viet Nam
Duration:
01 January 2017 - 31 December 2021
Donors:
The European Union (EU)