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| Implementing Partners (Profiles) |
• CAMBODIA - JVC • DF & W • LEUCAENA • MLUP BAITONG • RNRMAN
• INDONESIA - ARuPA
• PHILIPPINES - ESSC • PWG • ESSC-V
• THAILAND - WCM • AIT • SDF
• VIET NAM - NWG • ORGUT • FREC-FIPI
CAMBODIA
JVC
The Japanese International Volunteer Cooperation (JVC) is a nongovernmental organization committed to promoting equal opportunity through international solidarity and encouraging self-sufficient natural farming and environmental protection.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2001 December
DF & W
The Department of Forestry and Wildlife (DF&W) is tasked to protect Cambodia's forests and wildlife by formulating and implementing laws and policies, resource inventory and evaluation, management planning and project implementation, among others.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2002 January
LEUCAENA
Leucaena, established in 1993 is an NGO with offices in Battambang and Siem Reap Provinces whose activities are designed around community projects in developing countries. Its activities involve publication of periodicals and study tours and seminars. Leucaena is currently active in Cambodia helping villages establish systems for micro-credit, agricultural productivity, and community fisheries management.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2002 October
MLUP BAITONG
Mlup Baitong is a Cambodian NGO working to increase environmental awareness and conservation through education, training and advocacy. It seeks solutions for sustainable and equitable use of natural resources through community-based natural resource management activities.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2003 January
RNRMAN
The Ratanakiri Community Natural Resource Management Advocacy Network (RNRMAN) is a grouping of all Ratanakiri communes implementing natural resource management projects.
The network provides inputs on policies and legislations and extension services promoting the interest of communities and the special needs of indigenous people toward natural resource base management.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2003 January
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INDONESIA
ARuPA
The Jogjakarta-based NGO, Lembaga ARuPA, (an acronym roughly translating as Volunteers' Alliance for Saving Nature) was founded in 1998 as an action committee to promote reforms on policies and practices in natural resource management and tenure. Many of its members are students from the forestry school of Gajah Mada University who gained some understanding of conflicts over local resources through the practical work in Perhutani forests and plantations as part of their courses. Consequently, conflict resolution and sustainable, fair, democratic resource management are high on their agenda.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2002 May
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PHILIPPINES
ESSC / ESSC-V
The Environtal Science for Social Change (ESSC) is a Philippine-based research and mapping institute established in 1997 with the primary purpose of engaging in national and regional research with the intention of contributing to an understanding and sustainability of the environment through developing a science for social change.
ESSC-Visayas (ESSC Regional Office for the Visayas region) focuses on the assessment of Community-Based Forest Management Implementation by people's organizations, and the facilitation of complementing dialogs among the watershed stakeholders for sustainable management. It is also engaged in community resource mapping and accounting (CRMA) in various watersheds within the Visayas region.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2001 November
PWG
The Philippine Working Group (PWG) seeks to identify and recommend natural resource management policies that support community participation and are grounded on sound environmental principles. The group aims to deepen its understanding of natural resource approaches for critical policy review and recommendation.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2001 November
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THAILAND
WMD
For a number of years, the Watershed Management Division (WMD) of Thailand's Royal Forest Department has had interactions with the Asia Forest Network. Collaboration between these two organizations came to a fore when WMD was selected by AFN as a beneficiary under its Community Forest Management Support Project.
In 2002, the National Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation Department (DNP) was created under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. This resulted from a redefinition of the Royal Forest Department's functions with regard to forestry activities. Protection and conservation now come under the NPWPC Department's jurisdiction while commercial forestry activities remain under RFD.
WMD staff were then reassigned under the DNP and formed what is now the Office of Watershed Conservation and Management (WCM). The relationship therefore between AFN and WCM is not something new but one already well-established.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2002 January
AIT
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is an internationally-sponsored graduate institution of higher learning with a mission of developing highly qualified and committed professionals to play a leading role in the sustainable development of the region and its integration into the global economy.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2002 March
SDF
The Sustainable Development Foundation is a non-profit organization involved in community-based management within national parks in Thailand. It focuses on livelihood, socio-economic, and environmental improvements while protecting community rights and practices. Policy information is also a major objective in order to get plans implemented under a proper legal framework.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2003 June
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VIET NAM
NWG
The National Working Group (NWG) on Community Forest Management (CFM) emerged as a forum to exchange information and promotes complementation on initiatives focusing on forest development, watershed management and upland rural development in Viet Nam.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2001 December
ORGUT
ORGUT Consulting AB is a Swedish company established in 1973 to provide consulting services in rural development and land management. Its strength is on the implementation of long-term rural development projects having a multidisciplinary pool of experts in the fields of forestry, agronomy, sociology and economy.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2001 September
FREC-FIPI
The Forest Inventory and Planning Institute (FIPI) was established in 1961 under the general jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. FIPI has participated in many government-sponsored programs on forestry, biodiversity conservation, and regional integrated socio-economic development planning.
The Forest Resources and Environment Center (FREC) is one of the two scientific and technological centers of FIPI at its headquarter in Hanoi with experience in both scientific forestry and community facilitation.
Start of engagement with AFN under CFMSP: 2001 November
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