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RRI’s experience tracking forest tenure: From Exclusion to Ownership

RRI’s experience tracking forest tenure: From Exclusion to Ownership. Jeffrey Hatcher Rights and Resources Initiative Working together to monitor secure access to land International Land Coalition 8 and 9 December 2008 | Rome. Outline. Introduction to RRI Why RRI is tracking forest tenure

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RRI’s experience tracking forest tenure: From Exclusion to Ownership

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  1. RRI’s experience tracking forest tenure:From Exclusion to Ownership Jeffrey Hatcher Rights and Resources Initiative Working together to monitor secure access to land International Land Coalition 8 and 9 December 2008 | Rome

  2. Outline • Introduction to RRI • Why RRI is tracking forest tenure • What and how RRI is tracking • Process to compile, interpret and analyze data for From Exclusion to Ownership • Results • Challenges encountered • Plan for the future • Reaction to issues paper

  3. Rights and Resources Initiative • Coalition of 11 international, regional and community organizations • Common goal of promoting pro-poor forest tenure, policy, and market reforms • Common recognition that secure forest tenure is essential to development and sustainable use of forest resources

  4. Why RRI is tracking forest tenure • Vital to understanding the reality of the forest areas and peoples • Useful for advocacy • Make informed and strategic interventions • Part of RRI’s mandate

  5. What RRI is doing to track tenure • Who Owns the World’s Forests(White and Martin, 2002) • Listening Learning and Sharing Launch • From Exclusion to Ownership(Sunderlin, Hatcher and Liddle, 2008)

  6. From Exclusion to Ownership • Geographic scope • 30 top forested countries • Comparative • 2002 versus 2008 • Official statutory tenure versus customary tenure • The limits of existing data • Tenure typology • The specificities of forest areas • Concessions • Tree, land and forest tenure

  7. Methods and Process • Literature review • Expert consultation • More than 200 experts contacted • Interpretation • Bolivia and China examples • Categorization • Brazil example • Analysis • Global and regional trends, major movers • Expert review and revision

  8. Quantitative results Fig. 1: Asia Fig. 2: Latin America Fig. 3: Africa

  9. Qualitative results • Policy and law changes • UNDRIP (adopted as law in Bolivia, 2007) • India’s Forest Rights Act, 2006 • Behind the numbers • Very little control in statutorily-owned forest lands (Papua New Guinea) • Threats to tenure security • Hydrocarbon concessions in Peru overlap with indigenous lands • Limits of tenure rights conferred • Subsoil rights not transferred (Peru, Brazil, etc) • Carbon rights not legislated • Commercialization rights not transferred (Colombia)

  10. Challenges encountered • No international standards defining “forest land” • Fitting national data to RRI tenure categories • Understanding national context • Government data difficult to find • Changing national standards and methods • Different time periods (collection point) • Data gaps (Argentina, Malaysia) • Time-consuming • Legitimizing governmental perspectives

  11. Plans for global forest tenure monitoring • Web platform • Beyond the numbers • Collaboration and advocacy • Country case studies • Scaling-up

  12. Reactions to issues paper • Realistic appraisal • Relevance linked to scale and time period • ILC can play a role in mobilizing resources (human and financial) using a differentiated approach • Contrasts between forest tenure and agricultural tenure • In forest areas, often not a question of access but of recognition of pre-state rights • How to monitor the suite of rights? • RRI’s plan on disaggregating the bundle of rights • The climate change debate: tenure becoming an empty mantra • REDD moving beyond DD and A/R: think about access and rights to carbon

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