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RECOFTC
RECOFTC is derived from an abbreviated form of the organization's legal name, Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific. Formerly the organization was known as RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests.
RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests is an international not-for-profit organization that focuses on capacity building for community forestry in the Asia Pacific region. It advocates for the increased involvement of local communities living in and around forests - some 450 million people in Asia-Pacific - in the equitable and ecologically sustainable management of forest landscapes.
The Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC) opened in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 1987 with support from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the Government of Switzerland (through the Asian Development Bank), and Thailand's Kasetsart University.
Community forestry is widely acknowledged as a powerful solution for many of the challenges facing local people and the wider society, especially in improving rural livelihoods, enhancing community governance and empowerment, transforming forest-related conflict, protecting and enhancing the environment, and helping to fight climate change. As a capacity-building organisation, RECOFTC improves the ability of people and organisations to conduct community forestry effectively and sustainably.
RECOFTC works toward its mission through four thematic areas:
- expanding community forestry
- people, forests and climate change
- transforming forest conflict
- securing local livelihoods.
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Displaying 196 - 200 of 485Understanding Women's Participation in Forestry in Cambodia
This brief discusses how gender perspectives are being integrated in Cambodia's forest policies, laws and regulations in terms of women's representation, participation, access and decision-making in forest use and management. The brief also highlights the key challenges that prevail and outlines recommendations to promote gender mainstreaming further in forestry.
Understanding Women's Participation in Forestry in Fiji
This brief discusses how gender perspectives are being integrated in Fiji's forest policies in terms of women's representation, participation, access and decision-making in forest use and management. The brief also highlights the key challenges to and offers recommendations of further promotion of gender mainstreaming in forestry.
Understanding Women's Participation in Forestry in Fiji
This brief discusses how gender perspectives are being integrated in Fiji's forest policies in terms of women's representation, participation, access and decision-making in forest use and management. The brief also highlights the key challenges to and offers recommendations of further promotion of gender mainstreaming in forestry.
Understanding Women's Participation in Forestry in Sri Lanka
This brief discusses how gender perspectives are being integrated in Sri Lanka's forest policies, laws and regulations in terms of women's representation, participation, access and decision-making in forest use and management. The brief also highlights the key challenges that prevail and outlines recommendations to promote gender mainstreaming further in forestry.
Understanding Women's Participation in Forestry in the Philippines
This brief discusses how gender perspectives are being integrated in the Philippines' forest policies, laws and regulations in terms of women's representation, participation, access and decision-making in forest use and management. The brief also highlights the key challenges that prevail and outlines recommendations to promote gender mainstreaming further in forestry.