<div dir="ltr"><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dear colleagues, partners and friends,</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">First of all, my sincere apologies for this once in a lifetime-of-project mass email.</span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Grassroots Equity and
Enhanced Networks in the Mekong (GREEN Mekong) Program recently launched its programmatic newsletter, entirely dedicated to equity issues in
forest management and forest-based climate change mitigation. </span><span lang="EN-GB">It will feature news, information, facts and resources </span>on grassroots equity-related topics, as well as stories from the ground. <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;line-height:13px">For this newsletter to reach out to a wider and diversified audience, it will be proposed in the five national languages of the Lower Mekong region (Khmer, Lao, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese languages), in addition to the English version.</span><br>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">I take this opportunity now to invite you to
take a look at the first issue of our ‘<a href="http://issuu.com/recoftc/docs/green-on-equity-newsletter-160613">GREEN on
Equity</a>’ newsletter, which </span>is available <a href="http://issuu.com/recoftc/docs/green-on-equity-newsletter-160613">here</a>.<i> </i>If you would like to receive this
newsletter in your inbox, every six months, feel free to sign up on this <a href="http://www.recoftc.org/site/GREEN-on-equity">link</a>. <i>(Kindly scroll down to the sign up form)</i>.</p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">Lastly, I welcome your feedback on this first issue as well as input for the next issue, which is scheduled for December this
year. Thanks in advance.</span></p><p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB">With my best regards,</span></p><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><b>Etienne DELATTRE</b><br><b><span><span>Chief of Party (COP)<br>USAID/GREEN Mekong</span></span> Program</b><br>
<b>Grassroots Equity and Enhanced Networks in the Mekong</b><br><br><span><span></span></span><img src="http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww329/loidonfaek/RECOFTC-LOGO.jpg"><br><span><span></span></span><br><span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests</span></b></span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:9pt"> </span></span><br>
<span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">P.O. Box 1111, Kasetsart Post Office, Bangkok 10903 Thailand<br>Tel: +66 (0)2 940 5700 Ext. 4122 </span></span><span><span></span></span><br><span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">Email: <a href="mailto:jim.stephenson@recoftc.org" target="_blank">etienne.delattre@recoftc.org</a></span></span><br>
<span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">Skype: etiennedelattre</span></span><br><span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">Website:</span></span><span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:navy;font-size:9pt"> </span></span><a href="http://www.recoftc.org/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue;font-size:9pt">www.recoftc.org</span></span><span><font color="#888888"><span></span></font></span></a><span><font color="#888888"><span><span></span></span></font></span><br>
<input type="hidden"><input type="hidden"><div></div><input type="hidden"><input type="hidden"><div></div><input type="hidden"><input type="hidden"><div></div><input type="hidden"><input type="hidden"><div></div><input type="hidden"><input type="hidden"><div>
</div></div></div>
</div>