Fire Management - Voluntary Guidelines Principles and Strategic Actions

1. Fire Management - Voluntary Guidelines Principles and Strategic Actions

2. Fire Management Strategy Strategy to enhance international cooperation in fire management Review of international cooperation 2006 Voluntary guidelines: principles and strategic actions Global assessment 2006 Implementation: Actions Alliance

3. Multi-stakeholder process • COFO 2005 • Fire specialists and expertconsultations 2006 • Draft voluntary guidelines • Stakeholder feedback • Reviewed voluntary guidelines in COFO 2007

4. Key Partners In Preparation Process • UNISDR • US Forest Service • Global Fire Monitoring Center • The World Bank • The Nature Conservancy • Government of Spain • Australasian Fire Authorities Council • Many other stakeholders

5. Content • International, national, sub-national links • Cross sectoral issues • Principles • Social and cultural • Economic • Environmental • Institutional • Enhanced Capacity • Strategic Actions • Bibliography • Annexes

6. Scope • Global in scope • Legally non-binding • For all elements of civil society and the private sector, from policy level to forest owners and land managers

7. Objectives Promote sustainable land management by establishing principles for responsible fire- management including: • Facilitating establishment and implementation of policies and planning mechanisms • Promoting cooperation in fire management between agencies and organizations • Promoting community-based fire management

8. Relationship To Other International Instruments • To be applied in compliance with: - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, - Convention on Biological Diversity - United Nations Millennium Declaration • Consolidate and support many existing fire management guidelines, policies, programmes and regulations: - ITTO, FAO, GFMC - National handbooks, manuals and planning documents

9. Social and Cultural Principles • Sustainable livelihoods - promoted by the appropriate use and management of fire. • Human health and security - improved by minimizing the adverse effects of fire. • Traditional uses of fire - should remain as a practice on the lands of indigenous peoples and traditional rural communities and be adapted to the current environment.

10. Implementation • Translated into 6 languages, other 6 in process • Multi-stakeholder workshops at regional level to define national needs: Cuba, Trinidad, Indonesia and East Africa • FAO projects, World Bank, Universities, Private Sector (APRIL), etc. • Promotion through workshops, side events and expert consultations: AFAC, South East Asian Forestry Week, Silva Mediterranean Fire Group, EU Group of experts, CBFiM workshops, etc. • Fire Management Actions Alliance

11. Community Based Fire Management (CBFiM) • Emphasis in working with people and using fire as a land management tool. • Organized together with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) • South Africa (2004), Belize (2005), Indonesia (2007), and China (2009)

12. Voluntary Guidelines THANK YOU www.fao.org/forestry/firemanagement