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

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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


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Global Alliance of Community forestry

Connecting Forest and People Together

Community Requirements for Forest Certification

PEFC Stakeholder Dialog

Rio da Janerio Brazil 10th 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

GACF

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Map of organizations

Amérique Centrale ACICAFOC Népal FECOFUN Finlande MTK Mexique UZACHI* Colombie J.A.E.P. Equateur APIS Pérou ECOPOYENIRI Cameroun CAFT RDC AILDECO-CONGO Indonésie Kalimatan Barat

GACF

Thailand CF National Assembly India Jilla Ban Mancha Mexico

Main objectives

  • Link community organizations efforts in order to

have a joint incidence in international and regional forums on issues of interest for our

  • rganizations.
  • Link national agendas to regional and global

agendas and put forward local community voicess

  • Promote capacities, knowledge and information

exchanges acquired, between community

  • rganizations.
  • Support to community based forest enterprises

GACF

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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

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Critical Engagements

  • UNFF
  • Regional and Global Forest and Climate

Forums

  • UNFCCC
  • Capacity building and community

exchange

  • Expanding country and regional networks
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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

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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

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Right holders Space

Failure of Market Failure of State

Failure of Donor Led Development

  • pportunity and Way forward
  • pportunity and Way forward

and Conclusions

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Development Approach: Putting the Last first Forest, People and Institutions Change is Possible

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THANK YOU !