Rights and Resources Initiative - Phase III

Multidonor core fund to improve tenure and user rights.

Improved governance of forest areas in developing countries for poverty reduction, climate resilience and biodiversity conservation.

1. Local communities and indigenous peoples in a subset of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
2. Civil Society: indigenous peoples and community organizations in a subset of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America
3. Strategic private sector and trade networks, conservation organizations and investor community
4. Key global initiatives like Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT), Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) and Forest Investment Program (FIP)
5. Key multilateral institutions involved in development finance, forest development, and climate change initiatives
6. Selected bilateral donors

Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

Through supporting policy and market reforms, generating globally strategic analyses, strengthening networks and mobilizing global awareness RRI is recognized as leading network on forest tenure. From 2008 to 2011, it:

1. worked intensively in eight priority countries, engaged seventeen additional countries in strategic activities and organized dialogues in seven OECD countries;
2. catalyzed and promoted over 500 activities at country and regional levels;
3. supported 20 strategic opportunities to advance reforms in thirteen countries and committed over USD 800’000 via its Strategic Response Mechanism, a rapid source of funding to convert opportunities into reforms
4. convened eleven public dialogues on forest rights, governance, and climate change on five continents;
5. produced and distributed 120+ policy briefs, reports and brochures in eight languages. RRI was quoted in 360+ media stories across 30 countries in fifteen languages.

Fase 3 01.12.2012 - 31.01.2016   (Completed)