Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Forest Governance

Content

• A changing view• The issues• Benefits of good governance• Strengthening forest governance• Points for consideration

A changing view

• Increasing attention to good governance

• Condition for SFM and poverty reduction

• Broader governance concept promotes stakeholder participation

– Social: livelihoods, tenure– Economic: image, economic and trade

distortions, unfair competition, revenue loss

– Environmental: deforestation, forest degradation, loss of ecosystem services

Consequences of ineffective governance

Benefits of good governance• REDD+ funding• Investment• Market access• Sustainable

development

Strengthening forest governance

Assessment and Monitoring• Need for analytical framework with

actionable indicators• Key elements of good governance:

– Clear, coherent policy, institutional and regulatory frameworks

– Effective implementation, enforcement and compliance

– Transparent and accountable decision-making and institutions

Harmonization of Policies

• Other land use policies

• Forest tenure reform

• Voluntary guidelines

Strengthening Forestry Institutions

• Effective, efficient, accountable public forestry institutions

• Stakeholder participation

• Mechanisms for MRV and conflict resolution

• Nfps as platform for governance reform

Points for ConsiderationAction by Countries

• Strengthen efforts to address the challenges of forest governance to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, curtail illegal activities and provide land and resource tenure security

Points for ConsiderationAction by FAO

• Support countries to achieve their goals in strengthening forest governance:– Assessment and monitoring of governance

– Improving transparency and accountability

– Reinforcing institutional capacity

– Strengthening nfps

• Consider parameters for monitoring forest governance in FRA 2015

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