Forest Peoples Programme

Acronym:

FPP

Focal point:

Valérie Couillard

Website:

https://www.forestpeoples.org

Global

Mission

Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.

Goals

Get the rights and interests of forest peoples recognised in laws, policies and programmes
Support forest peoples to build their own capacities to claim and exercise their human rights
Counter top-down policies and projects that threaten the rights of forest peoples
Promote community-based sustainable forest management
Ensure equity, counter discrimination and promote gender justice
Inform NGO actions on forests in line with forest peoples’ visions
Link up indigenous and forest peoples’ movements at the regional and international levels

Members:

Forest Peoples Programme Resources

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Library Resource

Summary of the main points contained in the conclusions and recommendations of the final report of the extractive industries review

Enero, 2003

This document summarises the main points in the conclusions and recommendations sections of the World Bank’s Final Report of the Extractive Industries Review (EIR). The document focuses particularly on a few of the issues touched upon in the report, such as indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights generally, World Bank accountability/institutional issues, and the definition of poverty and sustainable development.The Final Report recognises that if the World Bank Group is to comply with its mandate, strict conditions must be applied to Extractive Industry (EI) projects.

Library Resource

A survey of indigenous land tenure: a report for the Land Tenure Service of the FAO

Enero, 2001

América Latina y el Caribe

This study provides a concise overview of the information available on the land rights of indigenous peoples, with a focus on those in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Successive chapters summarise the rights of indigenous peoples in international law and then examine how these rights are being recognised, or not, in Latin America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific.

Project

Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme

Donors:

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Geographical focus:

Camerún, República Democrática del Congo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Honduras, Guyana, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Viet Nam

A global programme that benefits poor forest-dependent people by supporting governance and market reforms aimed at reducing the illegal use of forest resources and promoting sustainable growth in developing countries. One of its main intended outcomes is to supports adopting and implementing pro-poor land tenure reforms at national level

Project

Capacity Development on Respecting Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Land Acquisition

Donors:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

European Union

Implementing organizations:

Forest Peoples Programme

Geographical focus:

Liberia

This project is intended to design and run a capacity development package, based upon the FAO Technical Guide on Respecting Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Land Acquisition, to raise awareness and improve capacities of the Liberian government, the private sector, NGOs, indigenous peoples and local communities to apply FPIC.

Mission

Goals

Forest Peoples Programme Resources

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