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Realizing MDGs, Restoring Forests:
Asia Regional Exchange on Forest Sector Contribution to Millenium
Development Goals
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A Report of the 11th Asia Forest Network Regional Meeting, RECOFTC, Bangkok and Chacheangsao, Thailand
28-30 November 2006
The 11th Regional meeting of Asia Forest Network was held from 28-30 November 2006 in partnership with the Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and Pacific and with support from the Japan Fund for Global Environment. Forty-two participants from seven countries focused on the forest sector’s contribution to the global target of reducing poverty by 2015 under the UN Millennium Development Goals. Participants reviewed evolving concepts and expressions of human development and exchanged on various plans and programs that aim to address needs and concerns of forest-based and forest-dependent people.
In reviewing human development concepts and expressions side by side with current issues of forest people, participants affirmed the inextricable links between community forest management (CFM) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)—how one contributes to the other. Participants also realized that often CFM programs tend to respond only to poverty reduction (MDG 1) and environmental sustainability (MDG 7), leaving concerns on health, education, gender and human security as aspects that can be dealt with later or left with another development agency to discover. With this realization, many participants expressed interest in developing field methods that improve the links of MDGs to CFM.
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