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Assistance to Countries Assistance to Countries

Making D t li ti Decentralization Operational Operational The nfp Facility in Support to Decentralization Decentralization

Making Forestry Decentralization Operational Operational

1 Decentralization trends 1.Decentralization trends and implications for forestry 2.Task ahead 3.Conclusions

Decentralization: implications to forestr implications to forestry

• Major technical assistance

need is for implementation need is for implementation

• Scarcity of information and

knowledge on implementing knowledge on implementing decentralization

The task ahead: implementation and Institution building Institution building

• Capturing decentralization potentials

Capturing decentralization potentials

• Securing institutions that perform &

Securing institutions that perform & deliver

• Securing institutions that provide

incentives for welfare and sustainability incentives for welfare and sustainability

T i i f t k h ld

• Training of stakeholders
• Design and development of
• rganizational structures process
• rganizational structures, process

and methods

• Evaluation
• Evaluation
• Coordination

Conclusions Conclusions

• Applied knowledge real world work
• Applied knowledge-real world work
• Goal; creation of institutions that
• Goal; creation of institutions that

create incentives to welfare and sustainability D ti id f i t

• Documenting evidences of impacts on

forestry sustainability and society forestry sustainability and society welfare

Th f F ili The nfp Facility i S in Support to D t li ti Decentralization

• nfps
• The nfp Facility

H it t d t li ti

• How it supports decentralization

nfps nfps

Country-specific processes, at y national or sub-national levels, for policy formulation and policy formulation and implementation towards SFM

• Based on UNCED and IPF/IFF/UNFF
• Framework for planning
• Framework for action
• Framework for action
• Based on principles, not on a method

The National Forest Programme Facility

The nfp Facility The nfp Facility

An innovative partnership to An innovative partnership to

facilitate nfps A h t d SFM

A new approach towards SFM 3 strategic orientations 3 strategic orientations 2 main beneficiaries:

countries & stakeholders (grants); nfp practitioners worldwide nfp practitioners worldwide

(information services)

The National Forest Programme Facility

Country support Country support

• Informed participation of

stakeholders (information & stakeholders (information & capacity building)

• Catalytic role (easing bottlenecks)
• Transparent & open selection

p p process for grant allocation

• Already 38 partners of which 36
• Already 38 partners, of which 36

countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America & 2 sub-regional America & 2 sub-regional

• rganizations

The National Forest Programme Facility

Decentralization Decentralization

Developing nfp processes at the Developing nfp processes at the

district and provincial levels to implement forestry programmes established at the national level established at the national level (China)

Developing the nfp process at the

national level in a federation national level in a federation (Nigeria)

The National Forest Programme Facility

T l ti i ti ti l

Translating an existing national

level nfp process into new sub- p p national (“regional”) nfp processes (Sénégal) (Sénégal) Developing a “TFAP type” of nfp

Developing a “TFAP-type” of nfp

into new coherent and parallel nfp processes at both national and “regional” levels (Indonesia) regional levels (Indonesia)

The National Forest Programme Facility

Reviving devolution schemes Reviving devolution schemes

existing in the forestry sector at the provincial and communal levels, for the implementation of a new nfp the implementation of a new nfp process (Morocco)

Enabling municipalities to cope with

l l d t i i new legal mandate in managing forest resources and involving local g stakeholders in SFM (Chile)

The National Forest Programme Facility

Making decentralization laws Making decentralization laws

• perational in forestry under the

d l t (M li R d ) development (Mali, Rwanda) or implementation (Uganda) of a new p ( g ) nfp process

Bottom-up restructuring of the

institutional setting for forestry as a institutional setting for forestry, as a prerequisite for further development p q p

• f the nfp process (Mongolia)

The National Forest Programme Facility