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The CSO Forum has come far as a regional platform for knowledge sharing. Back in 2011, it started with we started with 10 organizations in a brown bag discussion with ASEAN Member State Representatives in Brunei. Today the CSO Forum has over 60 organizations hailing from 8 countries from ASEAN collaborating with key stakeholders towards common goals. The CSO Forum has succeeded in bringing together diverse organisations driven by the common goal of mainstreaming people-centered actions in thematic areas of social forestry and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Over the years, the CSO Forum made significant progress in 8 countries in Southeast Asia, with particular focus on four key thematic areas. This report provides a detailed overview of the CSO Forum’s achievements in each of the thematic areas at the regional and national levels.
Thematic Reports
The past seven years have been a period of important accomplishments for the CSO Forum. Monitoring of progress for each thematic area has been guided by the following questions:
Eaglewood
Profiting from Honeybees
Sumbawa Honey: Sustainable Harvesting and Hygienic Filtering
Voices from the Forest (in English and Khmer)
Steps to sustainable and community-based NTFP management. A manual written with special reference to South and Southeast Asia by Mary Stockdale (2005)
Rattan for Life. The Rattan Cultivation Practices of the Dayak Benuaq of Kalimantan, Indonesia: An Information Manual
Mercado, Nellibeth V. and Maria Victoria M. Sabban-Iglesia. 2002. Delineating and Managing the Ancestral Domain. Tools and Insights from Indigenous Communities in Palawan, Philippines.
Pinto, Eufemia Felisa. Contesting Frontier Lands in Palawan,Philippines: Strategies of Indigenous Peoples for Community Development and Ancestral Domain Management (unpublished).