James Mayers

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• James Mayers
• International
• Institute for
• Environment and Development
• July 2006

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Why? Because

• Forestry can do more for poverty reduction and
  sustainable livelihoods (role of timber exports
  here is specific but small)
• Governance who gets to decide what is a vital
  focus for progress on
• Social justice righting past wrongs
• Tactics making new policies actually work

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• Forest governance learning group
• An independent alliance sharing and spreading
  learning on how to make forest governance work

• Inception 2003-04 Ghana, Uganda, Mali, Niger,
  Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa
• 2005-09 deepening and extending to Cameroon,
  India, Indonesia, Vietnam

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Four targets

• Macro-planning frameworks (PRSPs, NFPs,
  decentralisation programmes) enable improved
  forest governance
• Illegal and corrupt forestry that degrades
  livelihoods reduced
• Forestry enterprise initiatives and associations
  spread better governance
• Locally controlled forestry through strengthened
  rights and management

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Three elements in each country

• Small ad-hoc group of governance-connected
  individuals
• Group challenged by policy research on issues
  facing those marginalized by governance

• Practical guidance, tools, learning events and
  opportunistic action

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FGLG partners

• IIED coordinates
• Savcor-Indufor Finland, LTSI UK, Regional
  Community Forestry Training Center Thailand
• SOS Sahel - Niger
• Civic Response - Ghana
• Forestry South Africa
• Univ E. Mondlane Terra Firma Mozambique
• Centre for Dev Mgmt Forestry Dept Malawi
• Advocates Coalition for Dev Env Uganda
• Center for Int Forest Research Cameroon
• Centre for Peoples Forestry India
• Inspirit Multi-Sholder Forestry Prog
  Indonesia
• Forestry Dept - Vietnam

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Progress to date

• 8 country-based groups active - beginning to have
  impact
• 2 more starting - Vietnam and Cameroon
• 12 policy research outputs original research by
  group participants on CD
• International outreach (10 meetings) and
  cooperation (12 programmes)

• 8 tools for groups marginalized by governance 4
  languages, website print

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Ghana

• Major innovations like competitive bidding,
  forestry customer service centres. But bad
  implementation and abuse of law FGLG showed
  most timber is illegal, losing 100million/year
  revenue, time-bomb ticking at local level
• Group work fuels new alliances of civil society,
  parliamentarians, individuals in government and
  companies on social justice in forestry is
  focus
• Engage, shape and support Voluntary Partnership
  Agreement process between EC and Ghana to ensure
  that EC imports only verified legally sourced
  timber from Ghana and Forest Voices Project
  rights-focused local forest management initiative
  run by NGOs

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South Africa

• Small-scale forestry focus
• Land tenure and redistribution
• Alternative business models
• Key targets
• Small Forest Enterprises Support Policy
• Charter for Broad-Based Black Economic
  Empowerment in forest sector
• Department of Trade and Industry strategy

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Niger

• New Rural Code - recognises right of local
  control of forest resources
• Think-pieces on corruption, local NRM conventions
  and transfers of authority
• Key targets
• Cooperation amongst government big hitters
• Land tenure commissions which also deal with
  forest governance

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Mozambique

• Timber tracking and control
• Small and medium production and processing in
  Cabo Delgado
• Company-community deals
• Public debates, radio broadcasts, parliamentarian
  working groups
• Key targets
• FGLG fuels National Forest Forum

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Uganda

• Land and resource access
• Corruption in forestry
• Legal support for collaborative forest management
  
• Policy dialogues and radio talk-shows
• Key targets
• Poverty Eradication Action Programme and
  Environment and Natural Resources Sector
  Investment Plan
• Giving life to District Forestry Services

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Malawi

• Local forest control and service provision
• Charcoal and tobacco fuelwood production
• Press clubs and media debates
• Key targets
• Engagement with tobacco industry and big charcoal
  traders
• Local by-laws

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Tools to date

• Avante consulta! Effective consultation
• Organising pitsawyers to engage
• Good, average, bad law in action
• Improving forest justice
• People's law ideas for resource rights
  campaigners
• Targeting livelihoods evidence
• Independent forest monitoring a tool for social
  justice?
• Local government accountability

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The coming year

• 10 country group participants increasingly active
  and integrated
• International synthesis of key issues in local
  land tenure, resource access and impact of
  governance processes
• Small forestry enterprise for local development
  ( considering pro-poor timber) UK TFF 26-27
  September 2006 at Kew Gardens
• Social justice in forestry - cross-country
  learning event for participants in all FGLG
  sub-groups. 28-30 November 2006 in Uganda

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Websites

• www.policy-powertools.org
• www.iied.org