Voices for Mekong Forests

Engaging people in forest governance in the Mekong

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June 15, 2021

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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September 14, 2020

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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September 10, 2020

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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September 01, 2020

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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May 08, 2020

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...

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

Learning must go hand-in-hand with practice: The story of...

24 Mar 2022

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

Pathway to legal timber harvesting on public land clarified...

19 Nov 2021

Sustainable timber production and harvesting on public land in Thailand is central to national efforts to promote economic forestry and achieve the...

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07 Nov 2019

Knowledge fair highlights challenges and solutions to civil...

Civil society organizations from five countries shared their progress and lessons on improving forest governance in the Mekong region at a learning...