UNFF Major Group Focal Points

The UNFF facilitates a Major Group focal point system with focal points from each of the major groups -Business and Industry, Children and Youth, Indigenous People, Local Authorities, Non-governmental Organizations, Scientific and Technological Communities, Small Forest Landowners / Farmers, Women, Workers and Trade Unions. This focal point system is intended to be a fluid, flexible mechanism to help facilitate coordination, planning and discussion on UNFF-related issues within and between major group networks. If you are interested in participating in UNFF discussions on behalf of your major group, please contact your relevant UNFF focal point.

Children and Youth

International Forestry Students’ Association * 
Joshua Amaitum
Email: @email, @email

Alternate Focal Point
Binsar Sihotang
Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Email: @email

Business and Industry
International Council of Forest and Paper Associations – ICFPA
Mr. Derek Nighbor
President and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada
Email: @email
Forest Workers and Trade Unions
Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) *
Mr. Ambet E. Yuson 
Secretary General, BWI 
54 rte des Acacias
Carouge 1227, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 827 37 73
Email: @email
 
Indigenous Peoples

International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests
Mr. Hubertus Samangun
Regional coordinator (Bahasa region)
Jalan Setia Kawan Raya No. 39 – 41
Jakarta Pusat 10140, Indonesia
Tel: +62 21 632 7559 | Fax: + 62 21 632 6425
E-mail: @email

Alternate Focal Point
Ms. Lucy Lucy Mulenkei
Executive Director, Indigenous Information Network (IIN)
Kenya
Email: @email

Local Authorities
Networks are in discussion regarding their focal point.
Non-Governmental Organisations

Friends of Siberian Forests
Dr. Andrei Laletin
PO Box 26779
Krasnoyarsk-36, 660036 Russia
Tel: +7 3912 498404
Fax: +7 3912 498404
Email: @email

Coordinadora Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones para la Defensa de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente
Ms. Martha Cecilia Nunez Canizares
Av. Universitaria s/n y Juan Larrea.
Tola Chica, Tumbaco-Ecuador
Email: @email

Farmers and Small Forest Landowners

Global Alliance of Community Forestry (GACF)
Mr. Ghan Shyam Pandey
Chairperson, Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN)
GPO Box No. 8219, Purano Baneshwor,
Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: +977 1 4485263 | Fax: +977 1 4485262
Email: @email

IFFA – International Family Forestry Alliance
Ms. Mia Crawford
Forest Director EU and International Affairs
Federation of Swedish Family Forest Owners
Tel: +46 10 184 25 28
E-mail: @email

Scientific and Technological Community

Dr. Ernest Foli
Principal Research Scientist
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)
Ghana
Email: @email; @email; @email


Dr. Alejandra Martínez-Salinas
Leader, Forests and Biodiversity in Productive Landscapes Research Unit
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE´s)
Costa Rica
Email: @email

Women

African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF)
Ms. Cecile Ndjebet
Director
Email: @email

Alternate Focal Point
Forest Women Network
Ms. Fernanda Rodrigues
President 
Email:@email

*These organizations have consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.