Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Forest Governance

1. Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Forest Governance

2. Content • A changing view • The issues • Benefits of good governance • Strengthening forest governance • Points for consideration

3. A changing view • Increasing attention to good governance • Condition for SFM and poverty reduction • Broader governance concept promotes stakeholder participation

4. Consequences of ineffective governance • Social: livelihoods, tenure • Economic: image, economic and trade distortions, unfair competition, revenue loss • Environmental: deforestation, forest degradation, loss of ecosystem services

5. Benefits of good governance • REDD+ funding • Investment • Market access • Sustainable development

6. Strengthening forest governance

7. 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

8. Harmonization of Policies • Other land use policies • Forest tenure reform • Voluntary guidelines

9. Strengthening Forestry Institutions • Effective, efficient, accountable public forestry institutions • Stakeholder participation • Mechanisms for MRV and conflict resolution • Nfps as platform for governance reform

10. 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

11. 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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