The Community Forest Management Support Project for Southeast Asia (CFMSP-SEA) is funded by the European Commission and the East-Asia Pacific Environmental Initiative (EAPEI) of the USAID and other sources. AFN and the Community Forestry International co-implement the CFMSP-SEA. Since its inception in March 2001, the project has made rapid progress in initiating activities in the five participating Southeast Asian countries. CFMSP-SEA contributes to the improvement and expansion of community forest management (CFM) policies and programs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Through CFMSP-SEA, AFN supports country partner groups by providing technical assistance, training activities, small grants, and publications support. Southeast Asian nations are in different stages of developing legal frameworks to support Community Forest Management. Governments search for ways to make CFM work on a national scale, and how they can engage communities and civil society in the process. Venues are needed wherein forestry professionals in Southeast Asia can pull out of project implementation, sit back and reflect on their national situation, find trends, and learn from other countries' successes and constraints. Through CFMSP-SEA, AFN organizes regional exchanges for country partners to facilitate sharing of experiences and approaches to community-based forest management. These are done through meetings, field workshops and exchange visits. AFN also sees to it that regional exchanges provide venues for field exposure, as a way of connecting participants to the situation of forests and communities. These exchanges are also opportunities by which country activities are updated and explored further. Please visit our PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES page for more details. *This project officially ended on May 2005. Excerpts from the project's Formative Final Evaluation & Final Evaluation Report (pdf 940kb) are available on this website.