Acronym

Definition

ADMP

Ancestral Domain Management Plan (Philippines)

ADSDPP

Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan (Philippines)

AFSC

American Friends Service Committee (Quakers)

CADC

Certificate of Ancestral Domain Claim (Philippines)

CARD

Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (Bhutan)

CARERE

Cambodian Area Regeneration and Rehabilitation project

CBCRM

Community-Based Coastal Resource Management

CBFM

Community-Based Forest Management

CBFMP

Community-Based Forest Management Programme

CBNRM

Community-Based Natural Resource Management

CCs

Commune Councils

CF

Community Forestry

CFRP

Community Forestry Research Project (Cambodia)

CFUG

Community Forest User Group (Bhutan)

CFUGC

CFUG Committee (Bhutan)

CHARMP

Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resources Management Program (Philippines)

CIDA

Canadian International Development Agency

CIDSE

Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité

CIFOR

Centre for International Forestry Research

CONCORED

Consortium of Cordillera Organizations for Resource Equitability and Development (Philippines)

CoRRB

Council of RNR Research of Bhutan

CPRs

Common-pool Resource/s

CRF

Community Revolving Funds

CSC

Cordillera Studies Center (Philippines)

DA

Department of Agriculture (Philippines)

DAFO

District Agriculture and Forestry Office (Laos)

DANIDA

Danish International Development Agency

DAO

Department Administrative Order (Philippines)

DAR

Department of Agrarian Reform (Philippines)

DARD

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Vietnam)

DENR

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Philippines)

DFID

Department for International Development (United Kingdom)

DFW

Department of Forestry and Wildlife (Cambodia)

DoF

Provincial Department of Fisheries (Vietnam)

DoF

Department of Forestry (Bhutan)

DRDS

Department of Research and Development Services (Bhutan)

FA

Forestry Administration

FAO

UN Food and Agriculture Organization

GAAS

Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences

GDI

Gender-related Development Index

GFJCR

Government Fisher Joint Committee on Research (Vietnam)

GIS

Geographical Information System

GPS

Global Positioning System

HDI

Human Development Index

HYV

High-Yielding Varieties

IDRC

International Development Research Centre of Canada

IFAD

International Fund for Agricultural Development

IFDMP

Indigenous Fisheries Development and Management Project (Laos)

IIRR

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (Philippines)

IPM

Integrated Pest Management (Bhutan)

IPRA

Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (Philippines)

IRRI

International Rice Research Institute (Bhutan)

ISLP

Integrated Sustainable Livelihoods Program (Cambodia)

IUCN

Originally the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, now known as the World Conservation Union, but recognized universally by its acronym

KAFDOC

Khmer Association for Development of Countryside (Cambodia)

LeaRN

Learning and Research Network for CBNRM (Cambodia)

LFAP

Land and Forest Allocation Programme (Laos)

MAFF

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry. and Fisheries (Cambodia)

MDGs

Millennium Development Goals

MNE

Ministry of Nature and the Environment [Mongolia]

MoA

Ministry of Agriculture (Bhutan)

MoE

Ministry of Environment (Cambodia)

NCIP

National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (Philippines)

NFE

Non-Formal Education

NGO

Non-Governmental Organization

NIA

National Irrigation Administration (Philippines)

NRM

Natural Resource Management

NRMCs

Natural Resource Management Committees

NRMP 2

Ancestral Domain and Natural Resource Management in

Sagada, Mountain Province, Northern Philippines

NRMR

Natural Resource Management Research

NTFP

Non-Timber Forest Product

PAR

Participatory Action Research

PCI

Principles, Criteria and Indicators

PDC

Participatory Development Communication

PDR

Peoples' Democratic Republic (Laos)

PKWS

Peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary

PLA

Participatory Learning And Action

PLFO

Provincial Livestock and Fisheries Office (Laos)

PLG

Partnerships for Local Government

PLUP

Participatory Land Use Planning

PM&E

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

PMMR

Participatory Management of Mangrove Resources

PNP

Philippine National Police

PRA

Participatory Rural Appraisal

PRDC

Provincial Rural Development Committee (Cambodia)

PRSPs

Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans

RECOFTC

The Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia & the Pacific

RNR

Renewable Natural Resources

RNRRC

Renewable Natural Resource Research Centre (Bhutan)

RUA

Royal University of Agriculture (Cambodia)

RUP

Resource Utilization Permit

SDC

Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation

SIDA

Swedish International Development Agency

SUMCNR

Sustainable Management of Common Natural Resources

SWIM

Small-scale Wetland Indigenous Fisheries Management Project (Laos)

SWOT

Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat analysis

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNTAC

United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia

VEEM

Vietnam Economic and Environmental Management programme

VISED

Vietnam Institutional Strengthening and Economic Development project

VMC

Village Management Committee

VND

Vietnamese dong (national currency; 1,000 VND = US $0.0628733, as of 13 January 2006)

WUA

Water-User Association (Bhutan)