PEFC Stakeholder Dialog Rio da Janerio Brazil 10 th November 2010 - PDF document

10/11/2010 GACF Global Alliance of Community forestry Connecting Forest and People Together Community Requirements for Forest Certification PEFC Stakeholder Dialog Rio da Janerio Brazil 10 th November 2010 Ghan Shyam Pandey Coordinator, GACF GACF GACF ?  Global Umbrella Network of Community Forestry National and Regional Networks  GACF is established in November 2004 by Community organizations network and federation together  Community Representatives led process  Community Voices are Lauded in Regional , international Policy Forums but not yet fully consider 1

10/11/2010 GACF Map of organizations Finlande MTK Mexico Népal Mexique India FECOFUN UZACHI* Jilla Ban Mancha Thailand Amérique Centrale CF National Assembly ACICAFOC Cameroun Colombie CAFT Indonésie J.A.E.P. RDC Equateur Kalimatan Barat AILDECO-CONGO APIS Pérou ECOPOYENIRI GACF Main objectives  Link community organizations efforts in order to have a joint incidence in international and regional forums on issues of interest for our organizations.  Link national agendas to regional and global agendas and put forward local community voicess  Promote capacities, knowledge and information exchanges acquired, between community organizations.  Support to community based forest enterprises 2

10/11/2010 Membership Criteria Direct/primary members  Organizations of forest dependant groups, community forest users group and their federations/networks  Agreed on GACF vision ,mission, principle and values Associate/Indirect members  Contributing to the promotion of CF and User Groups  Agreed on GACF vision ,mission, principle and values  Membership ratified by board Critical Partnership, Helping Hands and Collaboration  Joining and Moving forward hands together Indigenous, family and Community forest alliances together (Three right Holder or So Called Marginalized or Backward Groups)  Helping hands from RRI, TFD, GFP, FORD Foundation, RECOFTC, IIED, IUCN, UNFF etc and champions  Going together with social movement and CSO campaigns 3

10/11/2010 Critical Engagements  UNFF  Regional and Global Forest and Climate Forums  UNFCCC  Capacity building and community exchange  Expanding country and regional networks 4

10/11/2010 Why do community need certification ?  To protect the community interest and rights  For sustainable resource utilization  To establish the good governance practice and reduce possible conflict  To secure the market of community forest product 5

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10/11/2010 What are Community required for certification ?  Capacity Building and awareness raising  Policy advocacy  Developing standard  Pilot project on group certification  Reduce transaction and auditing cost  Expanding country and regional networks for sharing  Explore the market of certified products Major Challenge 7

10/11/2010 opportunity and Way forward Expanding Right holders Failure of Failure of Space Market State Failure of Donor Led Development opportunity and Way forward and Conclusions 8

10/11/2010 Development Approach: Putting the Last first Forest, People and Institutions Change is Possible 9

10/11/2010 THANK YOU ! 10