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The Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP) is an environmental NGO that has existed for over three decades. FACRP’s expertise is consistent with its lived experience of caring for Mother Earth, and being a worthy representative of civil society, marginalised, and grassroots groups committed to the care of the environment in Trinidad and Tobago. The grounded nature of FACRP’s work has seen the organisation’s participation in numerous state policy consultations and reviews, both nationally and regionally. One area of FACRP’s expertise is that of the suppression of bush and forest fires. From its inception, the threat of bush and forest fires has been a critical determinant in the organisation’s work. It is based on this core need that FARCP has engaged in a project with the UWI IGDS to advocate for the development of a Bush and Forest Fire National Policy. This essay unpacks the experience of bringing such a policy document into being, and speaks to the negotiations, consultations, political and administrative brokering inherent in attempting to make climate-sensitive, gender-aware policy from the place of civil society; and the ways in which participation in the policy process does or does not become a reality.

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Climate Change, ‘Bushfires’ and Possibilities of Civil Society Based Policymaking in Trinidad and Tobago: Making Room at the Table

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    2025年

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  • Kemba Jaramogi,
  • Carla Ali,
  • Blair Cherise Gopeechan

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The Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP) is an environmental NGO that has existed for over three decades. FACRP’s expertise is consistent with its lived experience of caring for Mother Earth, and being a worthy representative of civil society, marginalised, and grassroots groups committed to the care of the environment in Trinidad and Tobago. The grounded nature of FACRP’s work has seen the organisation’s participation in numerous state policy consultations and reviews, both nationally and regionally. One area of FACRP’s expertise is that of the suppression of bush and forest fires. From its inception, the threat of bush and forest fires has been a critical determinant in the organisation’s work. It is based on this core need that FARCP has engaged in a project with the UWI IGDS to advocate for the development of a Bush and Forest Fire National Policy. This essay unpacks the experience of bringing such a policy document into being, and speaks to the negotiations, consultations, political and administrative brokering inherent in attempting to make climate-sensitive, gender-aware policy from the place of civil society; and the ways in which participation in the policy process does or does not become a reality.