To promote FAO's work in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs), PSUP has produced partnership briefs to highlight work done in recent years with some CSO partners. This specific brief highlights the work done together with IFOAM - Organics International through the Mountain Partnership, providing key facts and results of the partnership, specifically on what was achieved through the Mountain Partnership Products (MPP) Initiative.  

A network of Civil Society Organizations around the world, with the technical support of FAO, issued this The People’s Manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests in an effort to further the implementation at grassroot levels of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests  (VGGT). This manual is a pedagogical and didactic guide to ease people’s understanding of the Guidelines and to provide a practical approach on how to use them. The People’s Manual is based on the precepts of popular education and was elaborated through a collective and participatory...

This note is meant to serve as a guide on how to ensure balance representation of Civil Society organizations in FAO activities or processes. Balanced representativeness of Civil society has four main components that need to be ensured and look at, these are: constituencies, geography, gender andgroups. By ensuring that these four components are taking into account during relevant discussions, FAO will ensure that whether from meetings or processes,...

  وكانت المنظمة تعمل، منذ عدة سنوات، مع المئات من منظمات المجتمع المدني )المنظمات غير الحكومية والمنظمات المعتمدة على المجتمعات المحلية والاتحادات المهنية والشبكات وغير ذلك( في الأعمال التقنية وعمليات الطوارئ الميدانية والتدريب وبناء القدرات والدعوة للممارسات الزراعية الأفضل. وخلال السنوات الماضية تطورت منظمات المجتمع المدني من حيث التنسيق والهيكل والخدمات الإرشادية والتعبئة وقدرات الدعوة. وأثناء هذه الفترة تعرضت المنظمة أيضا لتغييرات في الإدارة ومراجعة إطارها الاستراتيجي وإعطاء دفعة جديدة للامركزية. ولذا تعين إجراء استعراض لسياسات واستراتيجية المنظمة لعام 9991 الخاصة بالتعاون مع...