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A view from within:
the forest and its resources from a community perspective
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What NTFP is that?
Food, materials for crafts, building materials, medicine, and rituals … these are just a few uses of non-timber forest products. NTFPs are "all biological materials, other than timber, which are extracted from forests for human use."
Learn more about specific NTFPs upon which communities across the region rely on for their livelihoods as well as to sustain their traditions. Search our NTFP database, a collaborative project of the partners of NTFP-EP. Enter the database here.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS – EP Microgrant Fund (MGF) - Partnership Fund for Community-Based NTFP Initiatives in South and Southeast Asia
The Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) is a network of indigenous organizations and support NGOs. Our shared goal is to empower forest-based communities to make use of and manage forest resources in a sustainable manner. To this end, the NTFP-EP catalyses and supports activities that build up and strengthen the capacity of our partner organisations in their work with forest-dependent communities, particularly indigenous peoples. With support from the Broederlijk Delen, the Partnership Fund for Community-Based NTFP Initiatives in South and Southeast Asia was established, which basically serves as the 2nd phase for the EP Microgrant Fund (MGF) and is accessible for: - Promising new initiatives needing start-up funds; and
- Established initiatives in need of immediate support (unexpected opportunities, sudden threats)
The over-all purpose of the MGF is to catalyze and support activities that will build up and strengthen the capacity of local organizations in: - the protection and sustainable management of ecosystems
- mainstreaming and integrating sustainable forest management in NTFP enterprise development and NTFP subsistence uses or vice-versa.
- communicating their local issues and plans to other stakeholders and parties locally or on a more macro-scale.
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| |  | REDD Plus Implications to IPs given light at the National Indigenous Cultural Summit
Manila, PHILIPPINES - More than a hundred indigenous peoples, coming from different tribes from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, have gathered last October 13 at the National Museum in Manila in the first ever national Indigenous Peoples Cultural Summit.
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|  | How sweet it is!
Dumagat-Agta’s very own Honey Processing Center opened
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|  | NTFP-EP calls for civil society engagement towards community forestry during the 33rd SOM-AMAF Meeting on last October 4, 2011
NTFP-EP was given opportunity to address the ASEAN body during the 33rd SOM-AMAF Meeting on October 4, 2011 and presented ‘Civil Society Engagements: Community Forestry Partnerships –Working Towards Building the ASEAN Community’.
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| ICCAs in Indonesia
12-14 October, 2011
A Symposium at CIFOR premises (Bogor, Indonesia)
Indigenous peoples’ conservation territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs): status, prospects, options and opportunities in Indonesia (short title:ICCAs in Indonesia)
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What is the NTFP Exchange Programme?
We are a collaborative network of non-governmental organisations
and community-based organisations in South and Southeast Asia.
We work with forest-based communities to strengthen their capacity
in sustainable management of natural resources. Over the years,
the NTFP-EP has grown into a dynamic network, with over 40 partner
organisations and major contacts in India, the Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia.
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