Acknowledgments

THIS REPORT is the result of collaboration among a great number of people. In 1992 Peter Geithner, then director of the Ford Foundation's Asia Regional Programs, and Eva Wollenberg, a program officer in the same office, worked with the Foundation's six Asian field offices to conduct a review of the Foundation's community forestry work in Asia. They called on a team of consultants to assist, led by Michael Dove from the East-West Center. Dove and Wollenberg visited each of the six countries. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and China, they were accompanied by Gill Shepherd, a staff member of the Overseas Development Institute's Rural Development Forestry Network. Mary Hobley accompanied them in Bangladesh and India.

Within each country, the team was assisted by the Ford Foundation program officer responsible for the Foundation's community forestry work in that country and by a local consultant. In Bangladesh, the Foundation's program officer was Doris Capistrano and the consultant was Mafruza Khan of Proshika Manobik Unnayan Kendra. In China, the program officer was Nicholas Menzies and the consultant was Zhu Zhaohua of the Research Institute of Forestry. In India, the program officer was Jeffrey Y. Campbell and the consultant was N.C. Saxena of the Society for the Promotion of Wasteland Development. In Indonesia, the program officer was Frances Seymour and the consultant was Wimar Witoelar of PT Intermatrix Bina Indonesia. In the Philippines, the program officer was Frances F. Korten and the consultant was Renato de Rueda of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. In Thailand, the program officer was David Thomas and the consultant was Songpol Jetanvich of the Local Development Institute.

Initial findings from the review were discussed at a 1993 meeting in Udaipur, India, where a lively exchange of ideas deepened participants' appreciation of both the promise and the challenges faced by the programs in each of the six countries. After that meeting the program officers listed above made further contributions to the report, along with other staff, including Peter Geithner, Walter Coward, Gordon Conway, Mary Racelis, Suzanne Siskel, Paul Fay, and Peter Harris. Eva Wollenberg and Mary Hobley compiled those contributions and included them in a preliminary report.

Jenny Springer, a Ford Foundation consultant in New York, helped rewrite the preliminary report, which was then edited by Frances F. Korten, Doreen Dun, and Oona Sullivan. Frances Korten wrote Part III. Brian Mori and Catherine Kirkpatrick