RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests Training course
IMPROVING GRASSROOTS EQUITY IN A FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE CONTEXT
Successful governance mechanisms in the context of forests and climate change should address key issues such as unclear land tenure rights and benefit sharing mechanisms as well as weak governance in order to be sustainable. To do this, social inclusion and equity – clear and strong rights, good governance, fair benefit sharing from forest resources, gender mainstreaming, opportunities for learning about new knowledge and empowerment – need to be considered, particularly to address the persistent risk of marginalizing forestdependent communities in the planning and implementation of related policies and projects. The setting up of effective multi-stakeholder engagement platforms is an important way of improving equity in a forests and climate change context. Within these platforms, grassroots facilitators will need to analyze, synthesize and communicate the concerns and perceptionsof the grassroots communities about the implications of equity (or lack thereof) in forest management and forestbased climate change mechanisms. Through increased capacities, these actors will be able to facilitate discussions that can generate opinions and positions about equity at the grassroots level, which can then be conveyed to relevant decision makers and other stakeholders. In response to this need, RECOFTC, under the ASEANSwiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC) and the ASEAN Social Forestry Network (ASFN), provides the training course Improving grassroots equity in a forests and climate change context.
Registration information
Dates: 25-30 May 2015
Course location: Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Course fee: US$ 1,600*
*includes course materials, lunch
during training program, meeting
package and field trip
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for more inquiries and registration
Registration will close
on 25 April 2015 or when the
maximum number of particpants
(25) has been reached
