1. Forest Rights & Tenure Security
2. Participatory SNRM & Livelihoods
3. Capacity building and Strengthening of
forest based communities
4. Climate Change, Forests & Carbon
5. Action Research & Policy Advocacy
We believe...
...that the claim to conservation, control and management of forest
resources belong to the forest dependant/dwelling communities
and their livelihoods should be the primary concern of all
forestry programmes.
Vanasamakhya is the state-level
federation of local forest protection groups or networks
of Vana Samrakshana Samithis (VSSs) which was promoted by
CPF in 2003.