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The Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC, Bangkok, Thailand), in partnership with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia), submitted a proposal to the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok to support the establishment of a new regional forest landscape governance research network. The project proposal is entitled "Developing research capacity of universities in Southeast Asia on forest landscape governance: strengthening rights, reducing poverty and inequalities, and supporting sustainable development". The research network and its activities will cover Southeast Asia, with a focus on Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

The intervention aims to establish a Southeast Asian research network that can carryout inclusive and participatory research on forest landscape governance that will be catalytic for sustainable development, poverty alleviation and environmental conservation. A human-rights based approach and gender equality are central to the goals and the methods of the intervention. RECOFTC, with support from CIFOR and other partners in the region, will establish and host a network Secretariat, a Project Advisory Committee, and facilitate the recruitment of researchers into the Forest Landscape Governance Research Network.  Planned network activities include national and regional workshops for aligning the research network to the needs of a broad range of forest landscape stakeholders, research capacity-building, and preparatory grants for network members to develop research proposal that address local, national and transboundary forest governance issues. The Forest Landscape Governance Network will engage with individual researchers and universities in the region. 

The intervention’s total budget during October 2020 - September 2022 is 11,6 million SEK. Approximately 2,2 million SEK  of the intervention budget will be forwarded from organisation RECOFTC to Southeast Asian universities for research activities. Nya medel/medeltillägg för att lindra konsekvenserna av covid-19
Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC, Bangkok, Thailand), i samarbete med Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesien), har ansökt till Sida om stöd för etablering av ett nytt regionalt forskningsnätverk för skogslandskapsförvaltning (forest landscape governance). Projektförslaget är Developing research capacity of universities in Southeast Asia on forest landscape governance: strengthening rights, reducing poverty and inequalities, and supporting sustainable development. Det nya forskningsnätverket och dess verksamhet kommer att arbeta i Sydostasien, med särskilt fokus på Kambodja, Indonesien, Laos, Myanmar, Filippinerna, Thailand och Vietnam.

Insatsen syftar till att upprätta ett sydostasiatiskt forskningsnätverk som kan genomföra inkluderande och deltagande forskning om skogslandskapsförvaltning. Dess forskningsresultat syftar till att bidra till hållbar utveckling, fattigdomsbekämpning och miljöskydd. Projektets mål och metoder betonar mänskliga rättigheter och jämställdhet. RECOFTC, med stöd från CIFOR och andra partners i regionen, kommer att inrätta och vara värd för ett regionalt nätverkssekretariat och en projektrådgivande kommitté, som i sin tur kommer att rekrytera forskare till forskningsnätverket. Planerade nätverksaktiviteter inkluderar nationella och regionala workshops för att samverka med ett brett spektrum av skogslandskapsaktörer och stärka forskningskapaciteten i regionen. Medel kommer at utdelas till nätverksmedlemmar för att utveckla forskningsförslag som studerar lokala, nationella och gränsöverskridande skogsförvaltningsfrågor. Nätverket kommer att samarbeta med både enskilda forskare och universitet i regionen.

Insatsens totala budget under oktober 2020 - september 2022 är 11,6 miljoner SEK. Cirka 2,2 miljoner SEK kommer at vidareförmedlas frän RECOFTC till sydostasiatiska universitet för forskningsverksamhet. To support governments in using high quality research to improve policies and institutional frameworks for inclusive and sustainable development of forest landscapes in Southeast Asia.
Specific objectives:
A well-functioning regional forest landscape governance research network is established to support co-learning and co-creation of knowledge, including transboundary and multi-country research collaboration.
High quality research is conducted in forest landscapes and effectively communicated to stakeholders to discuss and improve policies and institutional frameworks in supporting local communities in forest landscapes.
An up to date and accessible forest governance knowledge management system is in place and tailored capacity development programs are available to support shared learning on fundamental sustainable development issues, revolving around a rights based approach, addressing poverty, gender and social inequality, in forest landscapes.
Researchers have constructive and meaningful engagement with sustainable development practitioners and investors active in forest landscapes through a community of practice to support adaptation and use of findings and approaches from research; translating theory to practice.