Fern works with partners across all our campaign issues and whenever we start a new work area, we begin by looking for partners. We believe that EU policies are improved when policymakers receive direct input from affected people, with on-the-ground expertise. Our partnerships aim to both explain the EU’s workings to national NGOs and to open space at the EU for them to be heard.
Where partnerships include joint fundraising, we sign joint partnership agreements to form a contractual working relationship – always aiming for equal, transparent and mutually beneficial partnerships that achieve strong benefits for forests and forest peoples. For accountability reasons we have added an asterisk (*) to all partners with whom we have joint funding.
We have linked to each of our partners websites to make is easier to contact them directly, but please do also get in touch with the relevant campaigner if you would like to be introduced to any of them.
We are also a member of different networks, for example the Forest Movement Europe, a network of European NGOs and individuals using social justice to protect and restore forests globally.
European Forest Governance
Bioenergy
"Instead of being at the bottom we want to bring the communities right to the centre. (...) Fern has been our strongest ally in the forest governance and Voluntary Partnership Agreement [a trade deal with the EU] campaign. It’s not a typical donor relationship, in that we both play to our strengths and Fern trusts us to know the situation on the ground here."
Samuel Mawutor, programme officer at Civic Response, an environmental and resources NGO based in Accra, Ghana
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