Engaging people in forest governance in the Mekong
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Special Report: How community forests boosted pandemic resilience across...
Research in seven Asian countries reveals how community forests increased people’s resilience to the COVID-19-induced restrictions and why recovery...
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COVID-19 relief from the EU reaches Mekong forest communities
The math doesn’t add up for Kong Sothea, the patrol team chief of Or Boun Leu Community Protected Area in Cambodia. “I am so worried because I don’t have money,” says...
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Working towards fairness and safety for small businesses and workers in...
For workers in the small sawmills or furniture factories of Lao People's Democratic Republic, conditions can be far from fair. The company that employs...
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Civil society increasingly shapes forest laws in the Mekong region
Imagine waking up one day and being told you no longer have a right to live in the village where you, your parents and even your grandparents were born, because...
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Overcoming threats to the Mekong's forests and people
Big changes are underway in forests of the Mekong region in Southeast Asia. Countries are cracking down on illegal logging, increasing community control over forests, and...
Resources
Resource Directory
The Voices for Mekong Forest Resource Directory provides tools that help engage local people and civil society in forest governance.
RECOFTC Publications
The RECOFTC document repository represents over 30 years of accumulated knowledge and experience in community forestry.
Open Development Mekong
The Open Development Mekong and country websites are open source and open knowledge platforms, striving to meet emerging international open data standards.
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Perspectives
In 2018, Tran Huu Phuc signed up for a training course on facilitation skills. At first, he thought it would be like every other course he had...
Notes from the Field
Sustainable timber production and harvesting on public land in Thailand is central to national efforts to promote economic forestry and achieve the...
Recent News
07 Nov 2019
Civil society organizations from five countries shared their progress and lessons on improving forest governance in the Mekong region at a learning...
20 Sep 2019
Civil society representatives from the Greater Mekong met in Bangkok, Thailand to share information and lessons learned on forest governance at a...
Events
1:30 p.m. ICT, Online, Zoom, Invitation Only, Meeting is in English
Bangkok, Thailand
Incheon, Republic of Korea
Dawei, Myanmar
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