CCRI’s power to bring forest and biodiversity friends together
By Kureeba David* The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) has hatched an initiative called the Community Conservation Resilience Initiative (CCRI), whose main objective is to empower indigenous and local communities to be able to defend their rights and entitlements to their bio-cultural resources. It uses a bottom up approach inclusive of gender and vulnerability issues. The assessment was initially undertaken in ten countries and during the meeting, all ten communities made presentations on their preliminary findings at the meeting, which was …
