Simpler Forest Management Plans for Participatory Forestry Forestry Policy and Institutions Service Forestry Policy and Information Division Forestry Department
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2004

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Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Background
1.2 Aims of this paper

2.1 Emphasis on the plan rather than the process
2.2 Lack of planning “logic”
2.3 High costs
2.4 Prescriptive silviculture
2.5 Overloaded field staff
2.6 Lack of business orientation
2.7 Inflexibility
2.8 Skills and Methods required
2.9 Imposition of regulations
2.10 Predetermined local forest governance structure
2.11 Slow processes of handover and registration

3.1 What is meant by a “simpler” forest management plan?
3.2 Forest management plans for livelihood-oriented forestry
3.3 Forest management plans for enterprise-oriented forestry
3.4 Forest Management Plans for individual small-scale forest owners

4.1 Overall conclusions
4.2 The four functions of forest management plans for collective management
4.3 FMPs as the output of an iterative learning, capacity-building and negotiation processes
4.4 FMPs as technical guides for management planning, implementation and monitoring
4.5 FMPs as legally required documents
4.6 FMPs as instruments to regulate local forest governance based on multi-stakeholder agreements
4.7 A four-stage process for collective forest management planning

5.1 Use of By-Laws
5.2 Forest devolution in the wider political environment
5.3 Overloaded government institutions
5.4 Dealing with power differences

Chapter 6 Conclusion