AWG SF

The ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG SF) is a government driven social forestry network in Southeast Asia.

The ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG SF) is a transformation of the ASEAN Social Forestry Network (ASFN), a government driven social forestry network in Southeast Asia, with main goal to strengthen ASEAN Cooperation in Social Forestry through the sharing of information and knowledge. The AWG-SF is an ASEAN Working Group that reports to the ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry.

The Working Group has an extended objectives and scope of work from the initial ten years of the ASFN that links the government forestry policy-makers directly with other network members from civil society, research organizations, academia, private sector and experts of related fields – all who share a vision of seeing social forestry grow in ASEAN Member States.