Forest Management Unit: Achieving Improved Forest Governance in Indonesia
Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Forest Governance
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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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