Open call for applications to IFSA Development Fund
Dear IFSA World, The IFSA Development Fund is an internal fund gathered during Regional Meetings and other IFSA led events through fundraising activities. The fund is raised by members for other members within the IFSA Family. For this open call, we are offering partial (with the possibility of total reimbursement [...]
Open Call – UNFF Major Group Led Initiavite – Nairobi
The United Nations Forum on Forest (UNFF) was established in 2000 in order to promote principles for sustainable forest management. In 2017 the UNFF adopted to UN Strategic Plan for Forests (UNSPF) that provides a global framework for action to accelerate sustainable forest use and end deforestation. Civil society is [...]
Social Forestry Education in ASEAN (LC-IPB)
Dear IFSA friends, I’m Shofi Fauziyyah, a master's student and a member of IFSA LC-IPB Indonesia. On 11th to 13th November 2019, I had the opportunity to join the Regional Workshop on Social Forestry Education in ASEAN by The Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC) in Bangkok, Thailand. RECOFTC has [...]
Upcoming: At its 2020 General Assembly, the IFSA Supporter and Alumni Network will elect a new Board
Dear IFSA world and Alumni, the SAN is the supportive association of IFSA. Therefore, the SAN has two functions – to manage IFSA’s Supporting members (the S) and to coordinate its Alumni (the A). This year, at its 2020 General Assembly, the members of the SAN will have the chance [...]
Three pathways to strengthening safeguards for traditional knowledge
Promoting Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ (IPLC) ownership over traditional knowledge is essential to upholding rights and building resilience in the face of increasingly complex and intense environmental problems. But exploitative appropriation of traditional knowledge remains pervasive, in part due to the lack of comprehensive, multi-level, participatory governance frameworks. But pathways [...]
Participation to the GYBN consultative youth leadership meeting for post-2020 as an IFSA Representative
On the first week of November, the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) consultative youth leadership meeting for the post-2020 took place in Paris. There were representatives from different youth organizations and movements. The aim was to build a global youth alliance and discuss how we can all work together in [...]
