This partnership aims to address interlinked issues of food security, poverty and climate change.
ASEAN-Swiss partnership on social forestry and climate change
Contributing to food security through the sustainable, efficient and effective use of land, forest, and aquatic resources.
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Talk of the forest
A partnership between Switzerland and ASEAN has boosted social forestry through research, capacity building and support to policy development. But as...
Perspectives
In the last few years, governments across Asia have worked to reform their forestry laws. Now it is time to make sure that these new laws are...
25 - 26 February 2020
Talk of the forest
A Karen community in northern Thailand has developed a sustainable ecotourism model in Doi Inthanon National Park that respects their rights and...
17 - 22 February 2019
Talk of the forest
The endorsement of the Guidelines by the region’s ministers of agriculture and forestry paves the way for implementation to restore degraded...
Talk of the forest
RECOFTC's Ronnakorn Triraganon is featured in IUCN's video about financing forest landscape restoration.
Notes from the field
Six participants from Forest Department, Myanmar, including Mr. Tint Swe, Director of Training and Research Development Division of Forest Department...
Notes from the field
RECOFTC provides an on the ground view of a recent training conducted through ASFCC
Perspectives
RECOFTC-The Center for People and Forests interviews Ms. Sarinthip Promrit, Program Coordinator-Raks Thai Foundation on the value of participatory...
08 - 12 October 2018
Notes from the field
It is important to think of the big picture when looking at FLR. That is why Jeffrey Williamson of RECOFTC interviewed recent participants of our...
Talk of the forest
RECOFTC hosts two day dialogue to merge understandings of finance and forest landscape restoration (FLR).
15 - 19 October 2018
Stories of change
RECOFTC’s Leadership Camp for Sustainable Forests, partially funded by ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry, was held from 2nd to 7th October in...
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Designed in consultation with Member States, the ASFCC partnership programme has two objectives: (1) SF approaches developed and integrated into the climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies of ASEAN and the Member States; and (2) Socio-economic benefits derived from the inclusion of communities, women and vulnerable groups in SF and climate change adaptation and mitigation measures.