About Forest Peoples Programme
Forests cover 12% of the planet and nearly all are inhabited. Many of the peoples, who live in and have customary rights to their forests, have developed ways of life and traditional knowledge that are attuned to their forest environments. […]
History
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) was founded in 1990 in response to the forest crisis, specifically to support indigenous forest peoples’ struggles to defend their lands and livelihoods. It registered as a non-governmental human rights Dutch Stichting in 1997, and then later, in 2000, as a UK charity, No. 1082158 and a company limited by guarantee (England & Wales) Reg. No. 3868836, with a registered office in the UK. […]
Vision
Forests are owned and controlled by forest peoples in ways that ensure sustainable livelihoods, equity and well-being based on respect for their rights, knowledge, cultures and identities.
Mission
Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.
Goals
- Get the rights and interests of forest peoples recognised in laws, policies and programmes
- Support forest peoples to build their own capacities to claim and exercise their human rights
- Counter top-down policies and projects that threaten the rights of forest peoples
- Promote community-based sustainable forest management
- Ensure equity, counter discrimination and promote gender justice
- Inform NGO actions on forests in line with forest peoples’ visions
- Link up indigenous and forest peoples’ movements at the regional and international levels
Source: About Forest Peoples Programme | Forest Peoples Programme
Address : http://www.forestpeoples.org/background/about-forest-peoples-programme
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