ForestLink
#IWD 2023: Rural women at the heart of participatory forest resource management
A guest Blog from our ForestLink partners: In Cameroon, the forestry sector plays an important role in the national economy, and provides a range of essential social and environmental functions for many local and indigenous communities. As a result, the sector also faces several tensions related to the proper management of its resources, including the socio-economic precariousness … Read more
A new chapter for community monitoring: women’s land rights in Kenya
We are excited to announce RFUK’s partnership with TMG Think Tank and Kenya Land Alliance, along with their local partners Taita Taveta Human Rights Watch, Sauti ya wanawake, and Shibuye Community Health Workers, to launch a new project aimed at helping rural women in Kenya report abuses and threats to their land rights. While favourable … Read more
TMG Think Tank
TMG Research gGmbH is a German not-for-profit organisation, undertaking action-oriented research to explore, apply and evaluate the potential of digital innovation in urban agriculture and nutrition, ecosystem-based climate adaptation and women’s access to land. RFUK has been working with TMG on women’s land tenure rights since 2022. News Statement in Support of the Central Asháninka … Read more
Kenya Land Alliance
Kenya Land Alliance is a network of civil society organisations and individuals who are committed to advocating for the reform of policies and laws governing land in Kenya, championing the rights of Kenyans to access, use and manage their lands. Founded in 1999, RFUK has been working with the Kenya Land Alliance since 2022. News … Read more
CJJ
CJJ (Comptoir Juridique Junior) was founded by a group of young lawyers seeking to help forest communities to fight for their rights. Today, they are a reference organisation in the Republic of Congo, promoting better forest governance and with presence all over the country. With support from RFUK, they are pioneers of community-based forest monitoring. … Read more
Apem
APEM (Actions pour la Promotion et Protection des Peuples et Espèces Menacés) are courageous advocates of human rights and better forest governance, and pioneers in denouncing gender-based violence by conservation agents. In just a few years since their founding, they have become leaders among Congolese NGOs. With them, we aim to put human rights at … Read more
IDEF
We have proudly recently expanded our presence to the Ivory Coast where we are working with IDEF to deploy the ForestLink system supporting community based monitoring of deforestation and illegal forest activities. News Exciting news as RFUK’s real-time forest monitoring technology is rolled out in Côte d’Ivoire
Ecodev
ECODEV work in the central region of Cameroon, mainly in the domains of natural resource governance and community empowerment and health. With the ForestLink system, ECODEV pushes logging companies to fulfil their social obligations towards local and indigenous communities, with whom they have close ties. News New alerts map shows vital role of forest communities … Read more
Unlocking the potential of forest guardians
How community forest monitors are exposing the scale of illegal logging in Cameroon and why they are the future of rainforest protection.
New alerts map shows vital role of forest communities in tackling illegal logging
RFUK and its local partners in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Peru have launched a webmap that includes thousands of illegal alerts sent by local community monitors using the ForestLink system. While satellite forest monitoring has transformed our ability to detect forest loss, ForestLink … Read more