RRI Information
The Rights and Resources Initiative is an informal coalition of organizations, including CIFOR, IUCN, RECOFTC, Forest Trends, Foundation for People and Community Development, ACICAFOC, ICRAF, Intercooperation and Forest Peoples Programme.
RRI’s mission is to promote greater global commitment to pro-poor forest policy and market reforms to increase local household and community ownership, control, and benefits from forests and trees.
The Initiative will encourage communities, governments, donors and international institutions to combine efforts to advance two new global goals:
- To substantially increase the forest area under local ownership and administration, with secure rights to conserve, use and trade products and services
- To dramatically reduce poverty in the forested areas of the world
Key activities of the Initiative include:
- Mobilizing a global commitment to policy and tenure reforms
- Generating new globally strategic research on key policy and market transitions that affect livelihoods and sustainable forest use
- Supporting domestic policy reforms
- Helping community networks to engage more effectively and leverage change in key regional and global dialogs and institutions
The Rights and Resources Group (RRG) coordinates the Rights and Resources Initiative on behalf of the partners and supporters. In addition, the Group conducts strategic global analyses, collaborates with local partners to advance domestic reforms, strengthens community networks, and convenes global and regional dialogs. The Group connects partner institutions to global, regional and community actors to advance the goals, targets and missions of the Initiative.
RRI is supported by the Ford Foundation, DFID, IDRC, USAID and the US Forest Service.
For further details see www.rightsandresources.org.
