Structure of the Global Forest Coalition
The main decision-making body of the Global Forest Coalition is the Coordination Group, which consists of seven regional focal points, two Indigenous Peoples' focal points and the Chairperson. The International Secretariat is based in Amsterdam. A Southern office has been established in Asunción, Paraguay.
Currently, the following groups are acting as regional or Indigenous Peoples' focal points of the Global Forest Coalition:
Chairperson
Miguel Lovera
Bruselas 2273 Asunción, Paraguay
Tel/fax 595-21-663654 / 257 20993704
mhlovera@yahoo.com
Focal point Spanish-speaking IPOs
Marcial Arias, Fundación para la Promoción del Conocimiento Indigena, Panama
mariasg@cwpanama.net
Focal point English-speaking IPOs
Hubertus Samangun, ICTI Tanimbar, Indonesia, coordinator Nusanfara Region International Alliance of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of the Tropical Forests
hsamangun@yahoo.com
Focal point South and East Asia
Swati Shresth, Kalpavriksh, India
swati.shresth@duke.edu
Focal point Latin America and the Caribbean
Diego Cardona, Censat Agua Viva, Amigos de la Tierra, Colombia.
Visit: www.censat.org
selvas@censat.org
Focal point Oceania
Sandy Gauntlett, Pacific Indigenous Peoples Environment Coalition, Aotearoa/New Zealand
sandyoceania@yahoo.com
Focal point Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia
Andrey Laletin, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Russia.
Visit: www.sibforest.org
sifforest@akadem.ru or laletin3@yahoo.com
Focal point Indigenous people Africa
Lucy Mulenkei, Indigenous Information Network, City Square, P.O. Box 74908-00200, Nairobi, Kenya.
Visit: www.indigenous-info-kenya.org
mulenkei@yahoo.com
NGO focal point Africa
Wally Menne, Timberwatch,P.O. Box30577, Mayville 4058, South Africa.
Visit: www.timberwatch.org.za
wally_m@iafrica.com
Focal point North America
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, Hinesburg,
VT 05461, Box 412, USA.
Visit: www.globaljusticeecology.org
anne.petermann@globalforestcoalition.org
Focal point Europe
Sini Harkki, Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, Finland
harkki@sll.fi
The coordination group reports to the Board of the Foundation Global Forest Coalition, which was established in 2005 as the legal host organization of the coalition. The Board of the Foundation Global Forest Coalition has decided that it will adopt the decisions of the coordination group as binding advice. The current Board consists of Longgena Ginting (chair), Marta Zogbi and Sander van Bennekom.
Managing coordinator
Simone Lovera, Paraguay
simonelovera@yahoo.com
Campaign coordinator
Ronnie Hall, United Kingdom
ronnihall@googlemail.com
Campaigner on REDD and indigenous issues
Estebancio Castro Diaz
castroestebancio@gmail.com
Media coordinator
Orin Langelle
orinl@globaljusticeecology.org
Communications manager
Yolanda Sikking, Netherlands
yolandasikking@yahoo.co.uk
Financial Administrator
Ioanet Araceli, Netherlands
ioantv@hotmail.com
Translator/campaign assistant
Juan Carlos Araujo, Paraguay
texeceranch@hotmail.com
Coordinator independent monitoring project
Miguel Lovera, Paraguay
mhlovera@yahoo.com
Coordinator underlying causes micro-grants facility
Andrei Laletin, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Russia
sifforest@akadem.ru or laletin3@yahoo.com and
Sandy Gauntlett, Aotearoa/New Zealand
sandyoceania@yahoo.com
Address International Secretariat
2e Schinkelstraat 134
1075 TT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 31-6 239 132 17
Postbank Amsterdam account no: 910323.
