• Contact: Eufemia Felisa Pinto
  • Address: 48 Mahinhin Street, Teachers Village West, DIliman Quezon City 1101 PHILIPPINES
  • Phone: +63 2 8967 6127
  • Email: info@ntfp.org
  • Web: www.ntfp.org
  • Members:
    NTFP-EP Asia

NTFP-EP Asia

Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme Asia

Member since: 2024

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
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Diverse Tenure Systems

Respect and protect the inherent land and territorial rights of indigenous peoples, as set out in ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including by recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge and cultures contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment".
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Secure territorial rights for Indigenous Peoples

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
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Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Respect and protect the civil and political rights of human rights defenders working on land issues, combat the stigmatization and criminalisation of peaceful protest and land rights activism, and end impunity for human rights violations, including harassment, threats, violence and political imprisonment
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Protected land rights defenders

Mission

We seek to empower indigenous and local forest-based communities with women and youth, to make use of and manage forest resources in a sustainable manner. To this end, NTFP-EP catalyses and supports activities that build up and strengthen their capacities and that of their organizations and their partners and allies through thematic programs and support in 4 domains and pathways: a) Empowered Communities, Women and Youth; b) Community based Conservation Impacts; c) Sustained and Celebrated Cultures, Indigenous Knowledge, Systems and Practices; and d) Gender Equality and Women’s Rights.

Objectives

Our strategic objectives are as follows: 1) To enhance the capacity and spaces for indigenous peoples and local communities, and women and youth leadership; 2) To build knowledge and evidence of indigenous peoples and local communities traditional wisdoms and sustained good practice; 3) Catalyse stakeholders engagement on key thematic issues (eg. biodiversity conservation, livelihood, tenure rights and governance, food and health security, women and youth empowerment) affecting indigenous peoples and local communities towards
rights based policy and practice change; and 4) To model and facilitate meaningful change and sustainable ecology and well being.

Constituencies

The Non-Timber Forest Products – Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) is an association of 30 members with over 100 partner non-governmental organizations and community based organizations working with forest-based communities to strengthen their capacity in the sustainable management of natural resources in Asia.

  • Contact: Eufemia Felisa Pinto
  • Address: 48 Mahinhin Street, Teachers Village West, DIliman Quezon City 1101 PHILIPPINES
  • Phone: +63 2 8967 6127
  • Email: info@ntfp.org
  • Web: www.ntfp.org
  • Members:
    NTFP-EP Asia