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Community Forestry International, Inc. also known as CFI is a helps communities, such as rural communities, regenerate and preserve forests. CFI helps development agencies, professional foresters, etc., to get the necessary legal instruments, helps them get resources. Go through negotiation processes, and have methods to support the resident managers. CFI believes to encourage greater sustainable development, it is needed to include the local communities in the process of managing natural resources. CFI also enables strategies for community forest management that help them become an integral part of managing sustainable forests management world-wide. The program has four components which are designed to engage the national policy makers, to reduce conflicts, and to make managing agreements that will result, with the help of CFI, in more sustainable forest use. The four components are:
 * 1) Regional and National Policy Dialogues
 * 2) Mediation Processes and Methods
 * 3) Participatory Research and Field Programs
 * 4) Communication

CFI Project Process
different levels, such as local, national, regional, and international. This encourages the exchange of many new ideas and provides a spot to articulate problem issues. and empower communities that are currently involved in forest management. With this, CFI can hold training seminars. forest departments, communities and government planners. CFI analyzes the effect of government policies and development programs, and this also helps with communication. writing, and publishing program. By using their publishing and writing program they are able to publish their findings from field research. Programs available so far: Some of the projects available are:
 * CFI designs, organized, and facilitates policy dialouges and many
 * They also draw on a large variety of tools and techniques that support
 * CFI conducts field research by being involved and working with the NGOs,
 * To keep people who are interested updated, CFI maintains an active
 * Community Forestry
 * Communities, Climate Change, & Carbon Offset-Credit Payments.
 * Communites, Livelihood, & Payments for Environmental Services
 * Communities, Culture & Conversation
 * Communites & Biodiversity
 * Community Forestry Law & Policy

Current Projects

CFI currently has projects in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the USA