Made for those working in or with a community – communities themselves, NGOs and other support organisations – this manual is a practical guide to working with a community towards sustainable NTFP management. By describing a step-by-step process and providing practical advice, a community can confidently develop, implement and monitor its own plan for community-based NTFP management.

By Mary Stockdale
Published: 2005
Publisher: Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme for South and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 979-99355-0-4

190 pages, paperbound with tables and maps. With full color and
black and white photos and illustrations

Even in its seminal stages of writing, there had been great interest in this manual. With its release within the NTFP-EP network, the interest in the manual has grown. To make it more relevant to the work of organisations across the region, already there are plans to translate it into Bahasa Indonesia as well as local Indian languages. It will likewise be adapted in Spanish, through the CIFOR.
Along with the formal launch of the manual on 23 January 2006, the forum was a means of sharing of experience especially in assessment and monitoring in the Philippines within the larger issue of ancestral domain management.

About the Author
Dr. Mary Stockdale conducts research, training and teaching on community-based management of Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) resources and associated topics. Dr. Stockdale is a founding Director of the NGO LAPIS (Land and People Information Sharing) and is affiliated with both the School for Environmental Studies at University of Victoria and the Centre for Non-Timber Forest Resources at Royal Roads University.

Although based in Victoria, BC, Canada, most of her work has been carried out in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia and Philippines.

Her background includes a PhD and post-doctorate research fellowship at the Oxford Forestry Institute, University of Oxford, UK, followed by a position as Co-Manager at a new, interdisciplinary Center for Social Forestry (CSF) at the University of Mulawarman in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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