Resources

Featured background documents

Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)

• From Exclusion to Ownership? Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing Forest Tenure Reform | RRI
• Seeing People Through the Trees: Scaling Up Efforts to Advance Rights and Address Poverty, Conflict and Climate Change | RRI
• Whose Land Is It? Commons and Conflict States: Why the ownership of the commons matters in making and keeping peace | RRI

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

• Forests, Climate Change, and Human Rights: Managing Risk and Trade-offs

Intercooperation

• Climate Change and Governance in the Forest Sector: An overview of the issues on forests and climate change with specific consideration of sector governance, tenure and access for local stakeholders | Intercooperation and RRI

IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature

• Local Rights and Tenure for Forests: Opportunity or Threat for Conservation? | IUCN and RRI

Forest Peoples Programme

• Seeing ‘RED’? ‘Avoided deforestation’ and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities | Forest Peoples Programme
• Beyond Tenure: Rights-Based Approaches to People and Forests | Forest Peoples Programme and RRI

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)

• Securing the Commons – CAPRi Policy Brief 4
• Securing Common Property Regimes in a Globalizing World: Synthesis of 41 Case Studies on Common Property Regimes from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America

Relevant Websites

• http://www.redd-monitor.org/: The website emerged from discussions between NGO networks in Europe and the South, who felt the need to share information about the way REDD is developing.

Additional Resources

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