EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Information What is it about? Disseminate nfp participation information When? When available Where? SAFR coutries / East&Southern Africa |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Michel Laverdière |
Partners: FAO Representants – Forestry Directorates in SAFR countries |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: E-Conference What is it about? Decentralized Forest Management in Latin America When? January-March 2004 Where? Latin America and the Carribean |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Marjolein de Jonge : red_participation @yahoo.com.mx |
Partners: International Network on Participatory Methodologies and Rural Development in Forest Areas |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Workshop on Public Participation in Forest Policy What is it about? Workshop participants from countries with nfps or other forest policy processes to bring empirical case studies related to a theoretical framework When? 2004 or 2005 Where? Hopefully, Bellgio, Italy, if not, elsewhere |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Margaret Shannon, SUNY Buffalo & Freiburg University Gérard Buttoud, ENGREF, France |
Partners: |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: 3rd meeting with Eastern/Central European countries on Participatory stakeholder processes What is it about? Teaching and learning participatory processes for forest policy and management in eastern, south-eastern and central European countries When? Spring 2004 Where? Sophia, Bulgaria |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Margaret Shannon |
Partners: TEMPUS Von Humboldt foundation Gérard Buttoud FAO??? |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Community Forestry Database What is it about? Information about community forestry projects in the region When? It is on going Where? Bangkok server |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) |
Partners: CF Projects from China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Lao, Nepal, India, Indonesia, Philippines |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Participation in Community Forestry Working group in target contries e.g. Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao, Indonesia and China What is it about? Providing inputs to Community Forestry Working Group to consider factors involved in Forest Governance plus nfps When? December 2003 to November 2004 Where? In Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao and China |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) |
Partners: RECOFTC, Ford Foundation (China), WWF-Cambodia, Lao-Swedish Project, CF Working Group Vietnam |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Capacity Building for nfp processes in selected African countries What is it about? Capacity building in facilitationg multi-stakeholder processes for nfp formulation and implementation. Policy level Regional networks When? 2004+ Where? Not yet defined |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Henk Lette – [email protected] IAC, Wageningen, Netherlands |
Partners: LTS International EC-LNV In association with FAO – NFP Facility |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Study on Innovative Financing Mechanismes for SFM What is it about? Analyse successes+failures on institutional aspects through case studies When? On-going Where? Desk study |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Henk Lette – [email protected] IAC, Wageningen, Netherlands |
Partners: IAC + EC-LNV + partners |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Role of and Drivers in NFP processes What is it about? Process management approaches to root in and bring a dynamic to NFP processes through wider government reform processes and targets When? 2004+ Where? Africa&Asia |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Julian Gayfer, LTS International |
Partners: IIED, Indufor and other partners in the Forest Governance learning group & Wiseman Chirwa & Fred Owino |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Training course Decentralised Forest Management Planning : Improving the Impact What is it about? Developping skills of planners engaged in multi-stakelolder planning process in a decentralised setting. Includes linkung NFPs to district level planning When? 2004-2005 Where? Asia/Pacific |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Kristin Olsen, LTS International Ronnakorn, RECOFTC |
Partners: LTS International/RECOFTC |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Innovative Financial Mechanism What is it about? Lessons Learns and sharing of experiences When? 2004-2005 Where? Central and South America |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Eduardo Mansur, Ignacio Bustos – FAO Herman Savenije – EC-LNV |
Partners: IUCN, CCAD, FAO, EC-LNV |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Pre-APFC Workshop “Implementing IPF/IFF Proposals for Action and Strengthening National Forest Programmes What is it about? When? 16-17 April 2004 Where? Nadi, Fiji |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) |
Partners: FAO-RAP, FAO-FONP, Fiji Forestry Department |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: FAO supported process of preparing “NFP updates”for every country What is it about? Fresh updated version of the old “NFP update”published by FAO When? Ongoing process recently started Where? Animated by FAO Headquarters, with support from the Regional Offices and in connection with the countries |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Eduardo Mansur (wordwide) Fernando Salinas (Africa) |
Partners: All interested in sharing information on NFP process development |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Circulate a publication What is it about? A toolbox of techniques for working with stakeholders. Developed jointly by USDA and Forestry Commission When? January 2004 Where? Members of the CoP |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Marcus Sangster |
Partners: USDA, FC |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Circulate a publication, Notification of events What is it about? Evaluative frameworks. Publication and conference on evaluating land-based projects. Emphasis on deve loped countries When? June 2004 Where? Members of the CoP |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Marcus Sangster |
Partners: FC and other UK agencies |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Help with testing/refining QAT What is it about? When? Where? Asia/Africa/latin America/Europe |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Scott Geller – [email protected] |
Partners: ? |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: The NFP Facility is stimulating stakeholder participation in partner countries to execute a community forestry component of the nfp. What is it about? Promote and facilitate stakeholder insertion in the nfp processes When? Ongoing Where? In 28+5(new)=33 partner countries |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) FONP Facility management |
Partners: Nfp-focal points&nfp regional advisers |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Nfp-digest What is it about? Anotated bibliography of topics of interest to nfp practitioners such as “forestry&poverty alleviation” When? ongoing Where? Web-site of FAO (Facility) |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Facility management |
Partners: |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Synthesis of ideas developed in the EFI/ENGREF/IUFRO symposium of Epinal, June 2004, related to the CoP issue What is it about? Methodology for evaluation of participatory processes as implemented When? September 2004 Where? |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) G. Buttoud (M. Shannon, I. Yunosova) |
Partners: M. Shannon – Buffalo S.U. (USA) I. Yunosova – LESIC (Kyrgyzstan) |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Africal Forestry and Wildlife Commission (AFWC) What is it about? Normative Regional Commission for FAO When? February 2004 Where? Morocco |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Pape Koné, Group leader, Forestry Technical Group, P.O. Box 1628 Accra Ghana |
Partners: Forestry Departments, African Countries, Regional and Subregional Organizations in Africa, Non-governmental Organizations and Private Sector |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Lessons learnt in forest management What is it about? Assessment (review) of trends in forest administration in sub-saharian Africa When? Mid February 2004 Where? Rabat, Morocco |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Drs. Bjorn Lundgren – Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture&Forestry Dr. Iba Kone – African Academy of Sciences |
Partners: FAO Note: presentation during African Forestry&Wildlife Commission |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Training Module – Capacity Building on nfp process What is it about? Building capacity of national nfp team to plan and implement nfp processes When? Where? Rome/Bangkok |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Reeb – FAO, Ronnnakorn - RECOFTC |
Partners: RECOFTC, LTS, FAO |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Guidelines for participatory processes in nfp What is it about? Guidelines for practitioners When? Where? |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Reeb - FAO Buttoud - ENGREF |
Partners: Buttoud, Reeb, others |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: National Forest Statement What is it about? Development of a national forest statement When? 2004 Where? Indonesia |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) J. Albrecht, GTZ SMCP Indonesia |
Partners: NFP Facility c/o FAO Bangkok |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Payment for Envoronmental Services What is it about? Participatory process to develop an agreement among upstream (poor) communities and down-stream communities/industries on environmental services When? Ongoing Where? Indonesia/West-Java |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Jörg Albreach, GTZ SMCP Indonesia |
Partners: ICRAF/RUPES c/o CIFOR Bogor/Indonesia |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Participation What is it about? Lesson learnt on participatory process Improvement of participatory processes When? 2004 Where? Local processes in Indonesia |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) J. Albrecht, GTZ SMCP Indonesia |
Partners: DFID MFP Indonesia |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: NFP Implementation Partnership What is it about? Funding for implementation of the District Forestry Service component of the NFP When? Dec 2003-Nov 2004 Where? Uganda |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Gershom Onyango, Head FID, Uganda |
Partners: Forestry Inspection Division Uganda + NFP Facility |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Event What is it about? Experience sharing on NFPs When? March-April 2004 Where? Malawi |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Wiseman Chirwa – Malawi Onyango Gershom – FID Uganda Dennis Kayambazinthu – FRIM Malawi |
Partners: Forestry Inspection Division - Uganda Forestry Research Institute - Malawi |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: Case Studies What is it about? Inventory/analysis Participatory Prtocesses used in forestry related processes, Ecuador Comparison municipal dev. planning with environmental elements, with/without participatory methods, Guatemala Decentralised forest management and process monitoring, Bolivia Comparison local forest management, México Community Forest Management : Succes stories, Colombia Forest Entreprise Corporate Responsibility, Chile When? 2003/2004 Where? |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) Marjolein de Jonge, Network Coordinator, [email protected] |
Partners: The cases will also be posted at the web-site www.red-participation.com |
EVENT or PARTNERSHIP/NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY: National Networks. Starting in Chile/Colombia/Guatemala/(Perú?) What is it about? National Communities of Practice with expertise on participatory processes with focus on natural resource management. One of their functions will be to enhance stakeholder participation in nfps, and information sharing When? Where? |
Contact person (from this meeting, plus others) International Network Secretariat : Codersa [email protected] (contact: |
Partners: International Network on Participatory Methodologies and Rural Development in Forest Areas |