Partnerships

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Partnerships
International Conference on Managing Forests For
Poverty Reduction
Ho Chi Minh City 5 October 2006
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Partnerships

• Why partnering
• Complementary working fields
• Different kinds of organisations
• Linking (inter) national to meso (local) level
• Increasing Impact (Up- and out-scaling)
• SNV
• Capacity development services (ID-OS)
• 900 advisors in 33 countries
• Sub-national level meso
• Annual budget 100 million

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SNVs Partnerships

• International
• UNDP (localizing MDG)
• Fair Trade Labelling Organisation
• World Business Council for Sust. Development
• WWF (under prep.)
• Regional
• RECOFTC
• This conference follow-up (FAO)

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WWF SNV Partnership

• Thematic
• Green markets
• Knowledge development and Awareness building
• Strengths
• WWF nature conservation
• SNV poverty alleviation

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AA1 Sustainable Forest Management Solutions for
Poverty Reduction

• Problem FSC has not created sufficient economic
  incentives for medium to small individual log
  producers
• Objective explore issues and options of
  implementing FSC and fair trade certification
  models with a view to providing better and more
  stable economic incentives to small log and NTFP
  producers in the tropics.

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Initial focus

• Bolivia community managed timber production
• Mekong Rattan and Acacia
• Paraguay non GM soy production
• Cameroon FSC group certification

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Thank You!