2010 Progress Report â Draft - NFP Facility
2010 Progress Report â Draft - NFP Facility 2010 Progress Report â Draft - NFP Facility
2010 Progress Reportdeveloping countries. Groups require timely opportunities for dialogue and appropriate business developmentand financial services in support of sustainable smallholder agro-forest business activities. While smallholders indeveloping countries have established member-based organizations in the agricultural sector at local, provincialand national levels, such organizations are rarely developed in the forestry sector. The specific objective ofSFPAs is to promote the sustainable management of family, community and Indigenous forests (across contextswhere different rights prevail) and to offer products and services to the society.“Twinning” has been used to stimulate peer-to-peer cooperation amongst private sector forest producers inselected pilot-countries, including Vietnam, Ethiopia and Kenya. The Finnish and Swedish partners have madeavailable advisory services to support local twinning organizations in the implementation of the projects. Thepractical piece of the work is being carried out completely by local partners. As part of these twinningexperiences, a variety of activities are ongoing including practical forest management (seedling production,planting and harvesting); forestry business development (cooperative forest business planning and marketsurveys of different forest products) and institutional development (enhancement of forest producer cooperationand building-up of producer organizations). The pilot projects are scheduled to run through mid-2011. A furtherexpansion, 2010-2013 will be planned if the initial experience is positive. More information can be found at:http://www.fao.org/forestry/enterprises/60778/en/The Facility and the Growing Forest Partnership (GFP)Growing Forest Partnerships (GFP) was initiated in 2009 with the aim of catalyzing and reinforcing effectivepartnerships. The program envisions collaboration with people directly involved with and having an impact onforests on a day-to-day basis. This type of collaborative, grassroots approach has begun to deliver realistic,practical and sustainable solutions to challenges facing forests and rural people, and has offered an alternativeto large-scale, top-down, one size fits all approaches.The Facility aims to establish sustainable stakeholder processes in countries. This objective necessitates acollaborative effort by donors and national ministries in support of nationally owned, coordinated, and drivenprocesses. For this reason, the Facility became active in the preparation of the GFP initiative, together with FAO,World Bank, IUCN and IIED. The GFP creates an opportunity to form better partnerships and coordination,based on existing nfp processes and Facility mechanisms, and to more efficiently use existing and new resourcesat the national level in Facility partner countries.The program is currently operational in five pilot countries, including Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia, Mozambiqueand Nepal. Strategies and processes look different in each country, but generally include a combination ofcapacity building, information sharing and partnership facilitation activities. The Facility has been the mainfacilitator of GFP in Guatemala and Liberia (and since the end of 2010, also in Mozambique) and has thus linkedthe GFP support closely to the ongoing nfp activities, in particular to the strengthening of stakeholderrepresentation and work on forest financing.In Guatemala, the community forestry alliance (‘Alianza’) continued to develop and thrive with the support ofGFP, and due to their inputs and lobbying, a program called PINPEP was passed at the end of 2010 by theGuatemalan Congress to provide reforestation incentives to smallholders, with or without formal land tenure.GFP also supported capacity building and dialogue related to forest finance preparedness and policies byconvening trainings and policy discussions and supporting relevant research studies and surveys.In Liberia, the GFP has, since early 2010, contributed to the establishment and operations of a National ForestForum and several County Forest Forums, ensuring broad and inclusive stakeholder participation. GFP has alsosupported an inventory of and awareness raising on the economic importance of NTFPs in Liberia.18
2010 Progress Report“The Alianza” in GuatemalaThe Alianza Nacional de Organizaciones Forestales Comunitarias de Guatemala was createdwith support from GFP, a forum for small-scale forest users, communities and indigenousgroups to find a common voice to influence national and international forest policy.Made up of more than 400 community groups and about 77,000 members, the Alianzarepresents an unprecedented level of coordination among indigenous people and communityforestry organisations in Guatemala.The Alianza is a strong platform for engaging people in national decision-making processes,particularly in identifying forest financing instruments, including REDD, that can best benefitand build the capacity of smallholders and forest communities to sustainably manage theirforest resources and engage proactively in the policy dialogue and forest development.More than 388,000 Guatemalans who depend on forests for their livelihoods have benefitedfrom the work of the Alianza. Most recently, the Alianza was instrumental in passing asignificant legislation to financially support small holders.A National Forest Forum (NFF) in LiberiaIn 2010, Liberia established a nfp platform using Facility support. The nfp platform iscomposed of the National Forest Forum (NFF), 15 County Forest Forums (CFF) and the nfpNational Multi-stakeholder Steering Committee (NMSC). The NMSC is the coordinating bodyand the operational arm of the NFF with its secretariat placed at the Forestry DevelopmentAuthority (FDA).The NFF representatives of the CFF were selected after identification and analysis at chiefdom,district and county levels. The NFF is composed of the representatives of the CFFs and keyforestry stakeholders.In November 2010, a well attended launching workshop of the NFF was held, bringing together70 representatives from the 15 CFFs and the main development partners in Liberia. Theparticipants reached a common understanding on the role of the CFFs and the NFF. They alsoagreed on how to make the process sustainable, and decided on the next steps in order tokeep the nfp process moving.The stakeholders considered the nfp platform as a crucial element for forestry development inLiberia since it democratically provides all stakeholders with a voice and assures good(decentralised) governance of the forestry, climate change and natural resources sectors. Theprocess also guarantees a strengthened information flow from bottom up and vice-versa, and astronger multi-stakeholder participation in the policy processes for articulated inputs,socialization, validation, implementation of laws and hot issues.Forest-related initiatives in Liberia such as VPA, FLEGT, Forest Connect, NLBI, etc.,governmental institutions, and development partners are encouraged to use this nfp platformto coordinate their efforts and build synergies. If so, the strengthened voice and representationof stakeholders from the Counties, Districts and Chiefdoms will have an impact at nationallevel.19
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<strong>2010</strong> <strong>Progress</strong> <strong>Report</strong>“The Alianza” in GuatemalaThe Alianza Nacional de Organizaciones Forestales Comunitarias de Guatemala was createdwith support from GFP, a forum for small-scale forest users, communities and indigenousgroups to find a common voice to influence national and international forest policy.Made up of more than 400 community groups and about 77,000 members, the Alianzarepresents an unprecedented level of coordination among indigenous people and communityforestry organisations in Guatemala.The Alianza is a strong platform for engaging people in national decision-making processes,particularly in identifying forest financing instruments, including REDD, that can best benefitand build the capacity of smallholders and forest communities to sustainably manage theirforest resources and engage proactively in the policy dialogue and forest development.More than 388,000 Guatemalans who depend on forests for their livelihoods have benefitedfrom the work of the Alianza. Most recently, the Alianza was instrumental in passing asignificant legislation to financially support small holders.A National Forest Forum (NFF) in LiberiaIn <strong>2010</strong>, Liberia established a nfp platform using <strong>Facility</strong> support. The nfp platform iscomposed of the National Forest Forum (NFF), 15 County Forest Forums (CFF) and the nfpNational Multi-stakeholder Steering Committee (NMSC). The NMSC is the coordinating bodyand the operational arm of the NFF with its secretariat placed at the Forestry DevelopmentAuthority (FDA).The NFF representatives of the CFF were selected after identification and analysis at chiefdom,district and county levels. The NFF is composed of the representatives of the CFFs and keyforestry stakeholders.In November <strong>2010</strong>, a well attended launching workshop of the NFF was held, bringing together70 representatives from the 15 CFFs and the main development partners in Liberia. Theparticipants reached a common understanding on the role of the CFFs and the NFF. They alsoagreed on how to make the process sustainable, and decided on the next steps in order tokeep the nfp process moving.The stakeholders considered the nfp platform as a crucial element for forestry development inLiberia since it democratically provides all stakeholders with a voice and assures good(decentralised) governance of the forestry, climate change and natural resources sectors. Theprocess also guarantees a strengthened information flow from bottom up and vice-versa, and astronger multi-stakeholder participation in the policy processes for articulated inputs,socialization, validation, implementation of laws and hot issues.Forest-related initiatives in Liberia such as VPA, FLEGT, Forest Connect, NLBI, etc.,governmental institutions, and development partners are encouraged to use this nfp platformto coordinate their efforts and build synergies. If so, the strengthened voice and representationof stakeholders from the Counties, Districts and Chiefdoms will have an impact at nationallevel.19
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