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see... Asian Development Bank (ADB) ADB is a multilateral development bank. Both ADB and AFP share the common development agenda of promoting sustainable economic growth, environmental protection and regional cooperation. ASIA PACIFIC ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS (APAFRI), an independent non-profit body, which aims to enhance research and technology development capabilities in support of conservation and management of forest resources in the region, at Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), "Review of Rehabilitation Initiatives - Lessons from the past-". National governments, international donors and private agencies have invested in numerous forest rehabilitation projects in the tropics over the past three decades. But there has been very little assessment of the different types of projects and their impacts. This is all about to change with a recently undertaken lessons-learned study by CIFOR. The Forestry Research Support Programme for Asia and the Pacific (FORSPA), which its main objective is to build capacity in national forestry research systems. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and better the lives of rural people. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO promotes sustainable rural development and agriculture (including forestry). Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration. The partnership is a network of governments, organisations, communities and individuals who recognise the importance of forest landscape restoration and want to be part of a coordinated global effort. The partnership will serve as a model of how the international forest community can move constructively from dialogue to action by linking policy and practice. International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) IUCN Forest Conservation Program working on maintenance and, where necessary, restoration of forest ecosystems to promote the conservation and sustainable management of forests, and equitable distribution of a wide range of forest goods and services, at Mekonginfo is an interactive system for sharing information and knowledge about participatory natural resource management (NRM) in the Lower Mekong Basin UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre- Forest Restoration Information Service, provide an open-access internet information service to support forest restoration projects world-wide, facilitate exchange of knowledge and experience among forest restoration projects, and provide a basis for analysing factors determining success and facilitate the prioritisation, design and execution of forest restoration efforts by FRIS users, at The Society for Ecological Restoration International promotes ecological restoration as a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and reestablishing an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture, at Three ministers agreed on
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