Events

From its inception period to date, GACF has been organizing, participating and managing different events concerning with the community rights.

Community Forest Management and Enterprises: Global issues and opportunities, Rio Branco, July 2007

An international conference that bring together about 250 leaders of forest communities, public forest agencies, industry and conservation groups to share experience in community forest management and enterprises from around the world. The issues to be discussed are the best ways of assisting the sustainable development of community-based operations.

The conference is organized by the International Tropical Timber Organization and the Rights and Resources Initiative in cooperation with IUCN – The world conservation Union and the Global Alliance of Community Forestry. It is hosted by the Government of Acre and the Government of Brazil through the newly created more information at

http://www.rightsandresources.org/news/spotlight/2007.7.1.CFE.Conference.html

Nepal Forest Dialogue on ILCF was conducted in accord of GACF/FECOFUN and TFD with its goal to organized activities in favor of community organization to secure peoples’ rights on resources and mission to conduct a series of dialogue on different forest based issues on a priority basis. Before the conduction of Nepal forest dialogue, TFD was successful enough to conduct a same series of dialogue on Brussels and Panama, where the Nepal TFD program can be taken as continuing effort to build a strong coordination and collaboration between GACF partner organizations and natural resource leaders from global north & south. 

GACF is going to organize a Regional workshop in coordination with FECOFUN and RECOFTC Thai Program on Strengthening Community Forestry Networks and Federations in Asia Region.  The goal of this workshop is to conduct a formal gathering of federations/networks from different parts of Asian region and  develop a strategic plan on strengthening networks and federations working for empowering Community based organizations. The workshop will be of total five days including three days of dialogue and two days of field visit.

Venue: Bangkok, RECOFTC

Date: March 25 – 29, 2010

for more detail: contact GACF Global secretariat