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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:
Saving Forests, Making Profits: A Field Guide for Facilitators of Community-based NTFP Enterprises
Supporting Community Forestry Enterprises (CFEs) with the ASEAN Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Free and Prior Informed Consent, Reflecting NCIP FPIC Guidelines: Presentation of Selected Cases
Dipterocarp oleorosin in Vietnam and Cambodia: harvesting techniques, resource management and livelihood issues: A report from an exchange visit to Cambodia (May 2007)
Crafts Conference 2005: Promoting Fair Trade of Philippine Indigenous Crafts
Proceedings of the Madhu Duniya Workshop, 26-29 November 2007
Report of a Rapid Case Study on Malva Nut Collection and Trade in two villages in Ratanakiri Province, Northeast Cambodia (May 2007)
The Importance of Community: Issues and Perceptions of Land Ownership and Future Options in 5 Communes in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia (May 2008)