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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Centre for People`s Forestry
12-13-445, Street 1, Tarnaka
SECUNDERABAD 500017
India
Email: info@cpf.in
Website: www.cpf.in
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: central
Description
To work towards grounding sustainable forest management mechanisms, with a special thrust on developing
livelihood security of the marginalized sections among the forest-dependent / dwelling
communities - women, tribals and dalits.
The principal objectives of CPF include:
- To bring about a shift away from the dominant ideas of the eminent domain that have governed the relationship
between the State and the people in respect of all natural resources, including forest
resources.
- To emphasize people's rights over forest and natural resources and their conservation and management,
since natural resources belong to people.
- To ascertain people's knowledge in conservation and management of forest resources and assist in all
the initiatives taken up to strengthen people - particularly tribal communities - to enable them
play an effective role in conservation and management of forest resources and biodiversity.
- To critique, collaborate and influence the Government and the Forest Department at different levels
to put people at the centre-stage in the use, conservation and regeneration of forest resources.
- To study and develop methodologies that will ensure equity to dalits and tribals and equality of genders
in all the initiatives in the forestry sector and devise them into specific programmes for
implementation with full participation of people.
- To develop and implement programmes that will recognize the inter-relationship between healthy forests
and agriculture on one side and healthy forests, and conservation of water and soil on the
other.
- To help develop public policies that would establish the primacy of livelihood of forest dwellers
and others dependent on forest resources for survival in conjunction with ensuring healthy and
sustainable environment.
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