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Box 6.13<br />

Using DPLs in Lao PDR for Advancing<br />

the Forest Sector Agenda<br />

Box 6.14<br />

Transparency and Predictability:<br />

An Example from Armenia<br />

In the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, a natural<br />

resource management component under public<br />

sector reform was incorporated into a structural<br />

adjustment operation (People’s Democratic<br />

Republic of Lao Financial Management Adjustment<br />

Credit [FMAC], FY02). The overall objective<br />

of this component was to involve local communities<br />

in the management of forests and improve legislation<br />

on conservation. The project was under the<br />

control of the Minister of Finance, but the day-today<br />

implementation and monitoring was done by a<br />

high level interministerial coordination committee.<br />

For release of the second tranche, Lao PDR had<br />

to accomplish two forest sector–related actions. A<br />

quality-at-entry review suggested that the inclusion<br />

of reforms in forestry regulations unnecessarily<br />

broadened the scope of the conditions. The<br />

objectives of the natural resource management<br />

subcomponent were partially achieved, but local<br />

participation was less than envisaged partly<br />

because of capacity limitations and political resistance.<br />

The implementation completion report<br />

states that the legal framework has established<br />

technically sound forest management with basic<br />

provisions for planning, mapping, consultation,<br />

and control.<br />

Source: Authors’ compilation.<br />

the macroeconomic and larger cross-sectoral level will be to<br />

mainstream effective monitoring of forest outcomes into<br />

these operations, where these are identified as being potentially<br />

significant. Successful and effective monitoring of forest<br />

outcomes in policy lending operations will facilitate the<br />

implementation of “no fault” and relatively inexpensive<br />

monitoring of forest outcomes during implementation of<br />

lending operations. One of the primary uses of monitoring<br />

information on forest outcomes under development policy<br />

lending will be to develop more quantitative and analytical<br />

approaches to projection of likely forest outcomes.<br />

LESSONS LEARNED AND RECOMMENDATIONS<br />

FOR PRACTITIONERS<br />

DPL can facilitate sector reform. DPL has not been<br />

generally thought of within the World Bank as an instrument<br />

The Republic of Armenia PRSC III is the third in a<br />

proposed series of four annual single tranche<br />

PRSCs intended to support policy and institutional<br />

reforms in furtherance of the government’s<br />

PRSP. The PRSCs focus on four critical reform<br />

themes: (i) consolidating macroeconomic discipline<br />

and strengthening governance, (ii) sharpening<br />

competition and entrenching property rights,<br />

(iii) mitigating social and environmental risks, and<br />

(iv) modernizing the rural economy. Under the<br />

component on Reducing Risks in Natural<br />

<strong>Resource</strong> Management, the action taken under<br />

PRSCs I and II included adopting a national<br />

forestry policy and forest code, outlining the institutional<br />

restructuring plan for the sector, establishing<br />

a pilot system for monitoring illegal forest<br />

exploitation, and promoting community forest<br />

management. The Policy and Institutional Reform<br />

Actions under PRSC III included controlling illegal<br />

logging within agreed targets, and expanding<br />

community forest management. The trigger in<br />

PRSC II (as approved by the Board) was controlling<br />

illegal logging and forest removal within targets<br />

to be agreed with IDA by March 2006. As a<br />

result of political factors, the proposals for the<br />

structure, powers, and functioning of the illegal<br />

logging monitoring system were developed, but<br />

have not yet been adopted. The condition was<br />

deferred to PRSC IV.<br />

Source: Authors’ compilation using World Bank 2007.<br />

for specific sectoral reforms, yet it may in fact have more<br />

potential to effect the sort of fundamental changes in forest<br />

sector policy and practices than is available under traditional<br />

sector investment lending. Ministries of Finance are<br />

involved in implementing policy loans, and the inclusion of<br />

forest sector reform considerations in a policy loan can<br />

facilitate mainstreaming forest considerations into national<br />

policy dialogue and raise the profile of governance and<br />

institutional issues of concern in this sector.<br />

Prior policy dialogue. Development policy loans require<br />

particularly advanced policy dialogue on sector policy<br />

reforms and reform implementation. Such loans can only<br />

be built upon strong collaboration between central economic<br />

and technical ministries, and in the presence of com-<br />

226 CHAPTER 6: MAINSTREAMING FORESTS INTO DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PLANNING

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