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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 71 - 75 of 485Access to Markets: Ensuring Forest Communities in Myanmar Benefit from Their Timber
The issue paper was developed as a summary of consultations from participants of the “RAFT 3 Policy Advocacy Workshop” held in Yangon in 2018. It aims to provide a snapshot of community access to markets in the region and the importance of supporting policies to provide enabling environment for communities to generate income from the forests for their livelihoods.
Citizens' Monitoring in Forestry (Toolbox)
This toolbox was designed to enable citizen-based monitoring of community forestry. These tools were developed using livelihoods monitoring framework due to its ability to holistically capture CF group's outputs. The information is categorized according to five livelihood capitals: natural, financial, physical, human and social.
Community Forestry and Forest Landscape Restoration: Attracting Sustainable Investments for Restoring Degraded Land in Southeast Asia
This Issue Paper builds on the contributions of staff from government and non-government organizations from across the ASEAN region, as well as the private sector, who participated in the Regional Policy Dialogue held in Bangkok, Thailand on 8 - 9 March 2018. Entitled, "Connecting Finance and Policy: Forest Landscape Restoration in Southeast Asia," this event sought to establish dialogue and connections between vital stakeholders in Forest Landscape Restoration, particularly generating links between the private sector, government officials, and CSOs.
Supporting Sustainable Forest Landscapes Across Asia and the Pacific: Annual Report 2016-2017
This annual report explores RECOFTC's achievements throughout the 2016 - 2017 year, particularly noting how vital forests are to solving some of the world's greatest challenges. Addressing these challenges through community forestry requires approaches that consider multiple dimensions across a variety of landscapes. That is why RECOFTC's Annual Report for the 2016 - 2017 year is a look at the interdisciplinary measures taken through our projects.
Stabilizing and Rebuilding Myanmar’s Working Forests: Multiple Stakeholders and Multiple Choices
Myanmar is one of the most biologically diverse and ecologically productive nations on Earth. Its forests support the livelihoods of more than 36 million people, while the forestry sector employs more than
500,000 people and is one of seven sectors promoted under Myanmar’s National Export Strategy. Yet, after decades of unsustainable exploitation, driven by arbitrary revenue targets, mismanagement, illegal logging and, more recently, large-scale conversion to agricultural crops, Myanmar’s forests are badly damaged.