Forests Sourcebook - HCV Resource Network
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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 />
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