The Center for People and Forests

This manual is about building knowledge and capacity for respecting people’s right
to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). It can be described as the establishment
of conditions under which people exercise their fundamental right to negotiate
the terms of externally imposed policies and programs that directly affect their
livelihoods or...

This report provides an analysis of the PES Pilot in Lam Dong province. It considers the market, policy and governance drivers in the Pilot area that contribute to deforestation and forest degradation, the strategies that the Pilot sets out to deal with these drivers, as well as the process of designing the Pilot. The analysis concluded that the...