Growing Forest Partnerships Initiative

The Growing Forest Partnerships initiative, which ran from 2009-12, sought to improve the connections between forestry and other sectors and to ensure that global discussions about forests took into account the challenges that forest-dependent people and local forest managers face. It also helped local communities and indigenous people influence decision making.

How it worked

The initiative worked on a national level in Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia, Mozambique, Nepal and Ghana. It was instrumental in helping The Three Rights Holders' Group, a network for the collaboration between family forest owners, community forestry and tribal and indigenous peoples living in tropical forests, create its alliance.

It also supported a series of international dialogues on investing in locally-controlled forestry through The Forests Dialogue.

The initiative was also used to inform and develop the Forest and Farm Facility, which supports forest and farm producer organisations.