Gabrielle Kissinger
Senior Policy AdvisorForest Policy, Trade, and Finance

Gabrielle works on land and forest policies, constitutional reform, and recognition of customary and ethnic land rights in Myanmar. She is also Principle of Lexeme Consulting, in Vancouver, Canada. She brings almost 30 years of experience in developing policy responses to drivers of forest loss, designing (or reforming) fiscal policies and incentives for more sustainable land use, and harnessing markets to drive changes in land use.
She was a Senior Advisor to the UN-REDD Programme and UN Environment, and has worked mostly in Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bhutan, Zambia, Kenya, and Brazil in the last ten years. In the mid-2000’s, she helped legislate the historic Great Bear Rainforest agreements along Canada’s west coast. She has capitalized on opportunities to protect land and promote sustainable forestry when large-scale timberland divestiture occurred across the Northeastern US in the late 1990’s and early 2000s. She helped create the Maine Woods Initiative of the Appalachian Mountain Club, now 70,000 acres of conserved forest land, over 120 miles of recreational trails and nature-based tourism, and Forest Stewardship Council certified forestry in Maine. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho when South Africa transitioned from apartheid. Gabrielle holds a M.A. in natural resources management and environmental policy from Tufts University, a B.A. in philosophy and political science from University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a PhD candidate in the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
ေယ်ဒရယ် ပြည်တ ောင်စုစနစ်နှင ် ပမန်မောန ုင်ငံ ှ တပမယောနှင ် သဘောဝသယံဇော ဆ ုင်ရော ဌောတန ုင်ေးရင်ေးသောေး မ ောေး၏ အခွင ်အတရေးမ ောေး- တနဒါ၊ အီသီယ ုေးြီေးယောေးနှင ် ဘရောေးဇီေးန ုင်ငံ ု မှ ပေစ်ရြ်မ ောေး ု တလ လောပခင်ေးမ ောေး
By Gabrielle Kissinger View PublicationBurmese translation
Federalism and the Recognition of Indigenous Rights to Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar: Case Studies from Canada, Ethiopia, and Brazil
By Gabrielle Kissinger View PublicationThis report explores what indigenous and customary rights have been allowed and recognized in three countries that have federal systems of government and also have extensive indigenous communities and groups—Canada, Ethiopia and Brazil. The major focus of this brief is on Canada, as it was the focus of an indigenous exchange which occurred in October/November[…]
Forest Trends Comments on Myanmar Draft Forest Rules (2019) Regarding Land Rights
By Gabrielle Kissinger View PublicationIn May, 2019, the Myanmar Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) released its Forest Law Draft Rules which elaborate on how the Forest Law of 20181 will be implemented. The MONREC Forest Department (FD) is conducting state and regional publication consultations in Summer and Fall 2019 before proceeding to national-level public consultations by[…]
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ြမန်မာ့သစ်ေတာနည်းဥပေဒမူကြြ််း (၂၀၁၉)အော်း ထ ်း ြ််းစဉ်လော တမြယောအခွင်ာ့အတ ်းြ ော်း ရှုတထောင်ာ့ြှ Forest Trends ၏ အကြ မပြုခ ြ်ြ ော်း
By Gabrielle Kissinger View Publication၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ် မေလတွင် မေန်ေ ာ့ သယံဇ တ နှင်ာ့ သဘ ဝပတ်ဝန််းကျင် ထိန််းသိေ််းမ ်း ဝန်ကက ်းဌ န(MONREC) ေှ ၎င််း၏ ၂၀၁၈ ခုနှစ် သစ်မတ ဥပမေ1အ ်း ေည်သို ာ့အမက င်အထည်မ ်ေည်ကို အမသ်းစိတ် မ ်မပထ ်းသညာ့် သစ်မတ နည််းဥပမေကကေ််းကို ထုတ်မပန်ခ ာ့သည်။ သယံဇ တ နှင်ာ့ သဘ ဝပတ်ဝန််းကျင် ထိန််းသိေ််းမ ်းဝန်ကက ်းဌ နနှင်ာ့ သစ်မတ ဌ နအမနမ င်ာ့ ၂၀၁၉ နှစ်ကုန်တွင် စ စစ်တည််းမ တ်ေှု အလံု်းစံု ပပ ်းမမေ[…]