About Community Forestry International

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CFI helps design, organize, and facilitate policy dialogues at the local, national, regional, and international levels. By creating a forum for sharing innovative and successful strategies for sustainable community forest management, CFI helps to:

• Encourage the exchange of new ideas
• Provide a place to articulate problem issues and areas of conflict
• Report existing strategies that are successful
• Assist communication between groups
• Help build consensus
• Encourage networking
• Mediation processes & methods

CFI draws on a variety of tools and techniques that support and empower communities actively engaged in forest management. CFI will:

• Assist with conflict mediation, workshop facilitation, and group process
• Hold training seminars
• Facilitate community-based mapping activities
• Help formulate sustainable forest management plans
• Participatory research & field programs

CFI conducts field research by working with local NGOs, forest departments, government planners, and communities to:

• Explore how communities are managing their forestlands
• Analyze the effect of government policies and development programs
• Document the experiences of communities
• Conduct comparative studies
• Communication 

CFI maintains an active writing, publishing, and dissemination program to:

• Publish findings from field research documentation 
• Communicate experiences and learning to national, regional, and global dialogues
• Organize writing workshops and seminars on communication capacity building
• Maintain CFI website