Centre for People's Forestry

Updated on Feb 02, 2024

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Centre for People’s Forestry is a Civil Society Organisation in India, established in August 2002. CPF works for the rights and livelihoods of forest dependent communities with due regard to conservation. It believes that the claim to conservation, control and management of the forest resources belong to the forest dwelling and dependent communities and their livelihoods should be the primary concern of all forestry programmes.

CPF executes various projects in collaboration with various government agencies in India and many multinational help organizations like,

Ford Foundation

Winrock International, India

Oxfam - Novib

UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI)

RECOFTC (Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for the Asia Pacific Region), Bangkok

CPF is built around Five broad core areas

Forest Rights and Tenure Security

Capacity building and strengthening of forest based communities

Action Research and Policy Advocacy

Participatory SNRM & Livelihoods

Climate Change, Forests & Carbon