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INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION

INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION. IN SUPPORT OF TROPICAL TIMBER AND FOREST THE ITTO’S EXPERIENCE By Amha bin Buang Assistant Director (Economic Information and Market Intelligence) International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) Yokohama, Japan.

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INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION

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  1. INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION IN SUPPORT OF TROPICAL TIMBER AND FOREST THE ITTO’S EXPERIENCE By Amha bin Buang Assistant Director (Economic Information and Market Intelligence) International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) Yokohama, Japan

  2. Bringing Tropical Forests under Sustainable Management MAGNITUDE OF THE CHALLENGES

  3. NO TIMBER WITHOUT TREES Study on the Status of Sustainable Forest Management (1989) Main Conclusions • The extent of tropical forests being at an operational scale for the sustainable production of timber was, on a world scale, negligible; • Many countries had the intention, expressed in their legislation, to manage sustainably; in a number of these countries, partial forms of sustainable management were being practiced; • There seemed to be some awareness in these countries that action was needed to attain sustainable management; • Progress in establishing stable sustainable systems was so low that it was having very little impact on the state of tropical forests; • Comprehensive and urgent measures were necessary if the tropical timber trade was to continue in the long-term; and • The future existence of tropical forests depended on the establishment of sustainable systems of management.

  4. Progress Towards the Achievement of the ITTO Year 2000 Objective

  5. STATUS OF TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT 2005

  6. CURRENT STATUS

  7. UNDERLYING CAUSES

  8. International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)

  9. ITTO: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS Non-Member Governments International Organizations, Bodies, Agencies, Treaties, Initiatives Trade/Industry/ Private Sector Civil Society Informal Advisory Group Bureau Fellowship Panel Trade Advisory Group Civil Society Advisory Group Consumer Caucus Producer Caucus Committee on Economic Information and Market Intelligence Committee on Reforestation and Forest Management Committee on Forest Industry Committee on Finance and Administration International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) Consumer Members Producer Members Expert Panel for the Technical Appraisal ofProject and Pre-project Proposals Executive Director and Secretariat

  10. ITTO OBJECTIVES Promote expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber ITTO Objective 2000 Achieve exports of tropical timber from sustainably managed sources Promote sustainable management of tropical forests Promote processing of tropical timber in producing countries

  11. ITTA • ITTO Action Plan • ITTC Decisions • ITTO Biennial Work Programme POLICY WORK PROJECT ACTIVITIES APPROACHES • Policy consultation, deliberation, development • Policy research, studies • Normative work – guidelines, Criteria & Indicators, Manuals • Monitoring, assessment and reporting • Communication and outreach materials • ITTO Fellowship Programme • Country-driven: initiation, implementation, ownership • 6 month project cycle • address beneficiary needs and priorities • grant funding • 7400 projects (US$270 million) • 150 projects on-going engaging >500 local full time professionals • Consultation • Cooperation • Collaboration • Partnership • Capacity-building – human/institutional • Supportive measures • Enabling measures • Implementation oriented ITTO’s POLICY WORK AND PROJECT ACTIVITIES

  12. Major Areas of ITTO’s Work

  13. ITTO’s WORK OF DIRECT RELEVANT TO CLIMATE CHANGE

  14. INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION Thank you www.itto.or.jp

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