Forest Governance, Decentralisation and Redd+ in Latin America and the Caribbean
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The Workshop was organised by Mexico’s Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), and co-organised by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Intercooperation (Switzerland), the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and additional financial support from Finland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Japan, SDC Switzerland, ITTO, FAO, UN-REDD and the Ford Foundation.
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