This is the title of an initiative of a consortium of partners
to improve forest governance and sustainable forest management
in South-East Asia. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),
the Centre for International Forest Research (CIFOR) and Tropenbos
International (TBI) take the lead in the partnership that
has close ties with the Asian
Forest Partnership (AFP).
The AFP was launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development
in Johannesburg, in 2002. It is one of over 200 partnerships
for sustainable development registered with the United Nations
Division for Sustainable Development. The common aim of these
partnerships is the implementation of sustainable development
based on the Rio Declaration principles and the values expressed
in the Millennium Declaration. Partnerships do not substitute
for but complement intergovernmental commitments.
The partnership 'From Kalimantan districts to the global
market place', financed by the Netherlands Ministry
of Development Cooperation (DGIS), is implemented through
four modules;
- Forest governance and area based conservation - linking
community planning and priority setting at district political
levels to national planning and policy formulation in central
government (lead: TBI-Indonesia)
- International markets - defining pathways and creating
market chains for business to promote and reward sustainable
forestry practices in Malaysia and Indonesia (lead: WWF
International)
- Forest conversion - collaborating with responsible actors
in the palm oil industry and other stakeholders to promote
better practices and ensure that plantations do not replace
or threaten High Conservation Value Forest (lead WWF-Indonesia)
- Sharing of lessons learned and monitoring - disseminating
lessons learned among partners and beyond for replication
and prevention of duplication of effort (lead: CIFOR)
The module in which TBI-Indonesia takes the lead, 'Forest
governance and area-based conservation' promotes improved
forest governance in three districts in Kalimantan (Kapuas
Hulu, Malinau and Pasir).
The partnership provides technical support to all stakeholder
groups and enhance discussions to improve forest governance
and fully integrate it with sustainable economic development,
poverty alleviation and equitable distribution of natural
resource revenues. Focus is on strengthening local capacity
and human resources at the district level, being one of the
main obstacles to good governance in Indonesia.
The strategy is implemented through improved forest governance
at district level (enhance existing development policies;
implementation of conservation district concept; review and
analysis of forest/natural resource governance), effective
management of forest resources (promote and assist land
use planning refinement; formulate systematic methodologies
to implements effective and sustainable forest management;
facilitate and promote collaborative management of protected
and forest areas) and improved rural livelihood (catalyse
and promote dialogue among stakeholders; identify, review
and analyse existing alternative income generating sources)
the strategy will be implemented.
The partnership seeks active participation and support from
various partners and stakeholders as needed to facilitate
the dialogue, analysis and linkages needed to improve the
forest governance across the district. Results and insights
of the efforts will be actively shared at the national (Ministry
of Forestry) and international (Asia Forest Partnership) levels.
WWF International
WWF-Indonesia
TBI-Indonesia
CIFOR
Asia Forest Partnership
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