About Community Forestry International Thu, Oct 18 2007
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What We Do
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