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Fire Management - Voluntary Guidelines Principles and Strategic Actions. 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.
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Fire Management - Voluntary Guidelines Principles and Strategic Actions
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
Multi-stakeholder process • COFO 2005 • Fire specialists and expertconsultations 2006 • Draft voluntary guidelines • Stakeholder feedback • Reviewed voluntary guidelines in COFO 2007
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
Content • International, national, sub-national links • Cross sectoral issues • Principles • Social and cultural • Economic • Environmental • Institutional • Enhanced Capacity • Strategic Actions • Bibliography • Annexes
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
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
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
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.
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
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)
Voluntary Guidelines THANK YOU www.fao.org/forestry/firemanagement