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David Brown & Hans Thiel

David Brown & Hans Thiel. VERIFOR – UPDATE Chatham House, 21 July 2006. Today’s Presentation:. Review of outputs: negotiating the website, www.verifor.org VERIFOR in Latin America Broader Latin America FLEG Update. Four International partners. RECAP OF THE VERIFOR PROJECT. We focus on:.

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David Brown & Hans Thiel

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  1. DavidBrown & Hans Thiel VERIFOR – UPDATE Chatham House, 21 July 2006

  2. Today’s Presentation: • Review of outputs: negotiating the website, www.verifor.org • VERIFOR in Latin America • Broader Latin America FLEG Update

  3. Four International partners RECAP OF THE VERIFOR PROJECT

  4. We focus on: • Institutional dimensions of verification • Policies • Institutions ~ rules & principles • Social Issues • Mechanisms of inclusion and participation • Phase One: • Learning fromexisting systems & practices: • forest sector case studies • extra-sectoral case studies • Sharing of experience & developing principles for future implementation • Meetings/conferences/consultations/other support activities 2. Phase Two: • Policy process development • Advice to requesting parties to help build VS • Networking & sharing of knowledge

  5. Phase One Outputs • Publications: • VERIFOR Briefing Papers • Country case studies – forest sector • Extrasectoral case studies • Thematic studies • Options Papers • Invited ‘Controversies’ papers: • E.g. Marcus Colchester: ‘Social Dimensions of Verification in FLEGT • Newsletters • Meetings: • Mallorca Experts Consultation (April, 2006) • Contributions to national and international meetings

  6. Main studies [10]: Brazil Costa Rica Ecuador Cambodia Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Cameroon Ghana Canada (BC) Scoping/thematic [prospective]: Bolivia Honduras Nicaragua Trans-border (C.America) China CFs Nepal PNG The Solomon Islands Congo-Brazzaville DRC Tasmania? Phase One Case Studies- Forest Sector

  7. Main studies [5] Kimberley Process Nuclear safeguards CITES UNFCCC/Kyoto Food Standards (meat hygiene standards ~ UK/Netherlands) Additional [prospective] Ombudsmen/ médiateurs Labour standards International election monitoring Fisheries management Extra-sectoral

  8. THE MALLORCA MEETING • 34 international participants, forest sector & extra-sectoral specialists • Focused discussion around 4 key institutional themes: • Ownership • Independence • Legality Standards • Impacts

  9. PLANS FOR THE YEAR AHEAD

  10. Main Research Areas • Work on terminology and definitions • Typologies of and decision-trees for verification system design • Demand-driven research: • Support to interested producer countries/partners • Thematic research on issues such as: • Multi-stakeholder negotiations • How to make FLEG initiatives ‘pro-poor’? • Technological tools • Incentives for industry • Decentralisation • Trans-border trade

  11. Hans Thiel VERIFOR IN LATIN AMERICA

  12. VERIFOR will contribute to: • The generation and management of knowledge about VS • Improve existing verification systems in partner countries • Strengthen processes oriented to establish new VS • The political dialogue / political will to put in place a VS

  13. Dissemination of findings • Workshops / conferences in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica*, Ecuador*, Colombia • Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD) • FAO Forestry Commission for LAC (COFLAC) • Amazon Treaty Cooperation Organization (OTCA): ALFA Workshop (Brasilia, August 06) • Latin American Workshop on Technologies for Verification in the Forest Sector (Lima, Sept. 2006) • International Union of Forest Research Organization Conference for Latin-American (IUFRO-LAC) (Santiago, September 06)

  14. Contribute to improve existing VS Costa Rica: support to Strategy against illegal logging in cooperation with FAO SINAC TCP • Proposal to give the Forest Regents greater independence from loggers • Proposal for a information system to link administration, control and verification instances • Recommendations to make normative reforms to simplify C+I for SFM (109 criteria <- certification)

  15. The effect of overregulation

  16. Contribute to improve VS Ecuador: support the NWG and the National Multi-stakeholder Dialogue towards the design and discussion of a decentralized Forest Control System • strong effort to include all stakeholders, specially indigenous forest owners • effort to place the process on a high political level and gain ownership of provinces • withdrawal of NGOs: “policy closure” dilema

  17. IN F O R M A T I O N NATIONAL OUTSOURCED FOREST CONTROL SYSTEM G I S STATISTICS FOREST DIRECTORATE CONTRACTED VERIFICATION SERVICES VIGILANCIAVERDECONTROL OF TIMBER TRANSPORTS ON ROADS CONTRACTED FOREST ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES IN LOCAL OFFICES FOREST REGENT DELEGATED CONTROLLING + ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES IN THE FIELD - REVISION OF MANAGEMENT PLANS -GIVING OUT LOGGING LICENCES -GIVING OUT TRANSPORT PERMITS -COLLECTING STUMPAGE TAXES -CONTROL TIMBER HARVESTING OPERATIONS-FILLING OUT TRANSPORT PERMITS AT LANDING -CONTROL TIMBER TRANSPORTS (ROADS)-GRANTING SOCIAL CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY

  18. VIGILANCIAVERDECIVIC WATCHDOG TO OVERSEE THE WHOLE SYSTEM IN F O R M A T I O N NATIONAL DECENTRALIZED FOREST CONTROL SYSTEM G I S STATISTICS NATIONAL FOREST DIRECTORATE CONTRACTED VERIFICATION SERVICES FOREST GUARD (POLICE, ARMED FORCES AND PROVINCE OFFICIALS) DECENTRALIZED FOREST ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES IN PROVINCIAL OFFICES FOREST REGENT DELEGATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN THE FIELD - REVISION OF HARVESTING PLANS -GIVING OUT LOGGING LICENCES -GIVING OUT TRANSPORT PERMITS -COLLECTING STUMPAGE TAXES -RESPONSIBLE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HARVESTING PLAN-FILLING OUT TRANSPORT PERMITS AT LANDING -CONTROL TIMBER TRANSPORTS (ROADS)-GRANTING SOCIAL CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY

  19. New system Ecuador: • Differentiated but complementary roles for the provincial and national forest authority (land use, administration, sanction, accreditation of regents • Agree on a financing strategy and mechanism: forest regents clear role and financial independence from loggers • Role of Vigilancia Verde only watchdog • Only verification services outsourced

  20. Contribute to establish new VS • Honduras: support to legislative reform towards a new VS: forest regents, information system • Nicaragua • Colombia: support to the ruling of the new (April 06) Forest Law to establish a decentralized forest control system: forest “agents”, outsourced verification bodies, national information system

  21. FLEGT issues in LAC Singularities: • LAC timber market • national and regional consumption patterns • % of exports to European market • share of timber exports to total exports • LAC has strong nationally driven processes towards forest law compliance • NFP Brazil • New forest regime Bolivia • Costa Rica, Honduras • Outsourced -> decentralized control scheme Ecuador

  22. Political dialogue • Brazil sovereignty over the Amazon Basin ( <- global public goods ) • FLEGT is seen to be a northern interests driven process to ban “illegal” wood from the market without having an impact on the underlying causes of deforestation and land use change for agriculture: proof of legality for soybean oil?* • FLEGT is becoming a non word in the region and has muted from FLEG in Spanish to ALFA Aplicación de la Legislación Forestal en la Amazonía – Meeting under the umbrella of OTCA to be held in Brasilia late August 2006

  23. ALFA (FLEGT) opportunities: • Some countries with big potential to exemplify verification systems • Potential for a constructive negotiation with less pressures and market driven interests • There is a big need to inform governments and society of the EU-FLEGT Action Plan and its opportunities (win-win)

  24. www.verifor.org

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