Asia Forest Network activities include: FACILITATING NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND GLOBAL DIALOGUES Creating new communication channels and opportunities for dialogue process Supporting national community forestry working groups Helping government and development agencies to formulate improved community forest management policies Designing action research and policy analysis programs Encouraging cross-disciplinary and flexible programs that introduce new practices DEVELOPING PROCESSES FOR ENHANCING TENURE SECURITY Providing training sessions to develop capacity-building for communities and local organizations Building inter-agency cooperation and synergistic community forest management strategies Supporting country trials with community dialogues and mapping Assisting communities to resolve conflicts and design sustainable community forest management plans FIELD RESEARCH Establishing community forest management research sites for assessing how policies and programs effect ethnic minorities and women Identifying "hot spots" of conflict and forest degradation that require intervention Conducting comparative studies of influence of community forestry on different types of degraded forests Organizing seminars and workshops to exchange research information COMMUNICATION National and Regional Reports Working Papers and Case Studies