Sustaining Forests

The World Bank

Description

The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of the findings of an independent review of the 1991 strategy and a two-year consultative process with development partners and stakeholders around the world.
The revised strategy, Sustaining Forests, is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development, and protecting global forest values. Recognizing the key role forests play in contributing to the livelihoods of people living in extreme poverty, government and local ownership of forest policies and interventions are emphasized along with the development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance and the mainstreaming of forests into national development planning. The strategy also aims to support ecologically, socially and economically sound management of production forests by ensuring good management practices through application of safeguard procedures and independent monitoring and certification.
Implementation of the strategy will center on building and strengthening partnerships with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other donor agencies to promote better forest conservation and management at country and global levels.

Sujets

• Environmental issue
• Water conservation
• Soil conservation
• Environmental analysis
• Environment
• Rural development

Informations

• Publié par: world-bank-publications
• Publié le: 01 mai 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 28
• EAN13: 9780821357552
• Langue: English

Extrait

biodiversity
economic
Ninety percent of the world’s 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty obtain at least
part of their livelihood from forests. Forests in developing countries support up to 90 percent
of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. However, mismanagement and misuse of forests
development
result in wasted expenditures, loss of livelihood, and damage to the environment.
Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy charts a path for the World Bank’s proactive
engagement in the forest sector to help attain the goal of lasting poverty reduction
conservation
without jeopardizing the environmental values essential to sustainable development.
protected areas
The World Bank’s Forests Strategy is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential
of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development,
livelihoods
and protecting the vital local and global environmental services and values provided by forest values
forests. The strategy emphasizes government and local ownership of forest policies and
interventions, development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance, and the
mainstreaming of forest concerns into national development planning. The strategy also
aims to support ecologically, socially, and economically sound management of production
poverty reduction
forests by ensuring good management practices through the use of safeguard procedures
and independent monitoring and certification.
This book is accompanied by a CD containing background materials on how the strategy
was developed, including the stakeholder consultative process, as well as information on
forests’ role in poverty reduction, economic development, and the provision of environmental
Sustaining
services that helped to shape the strategy. World Bank safeguard policies relevant to
forests and a short video highlighting the strategy’s objectives are also included on the CD.
In implementing this strategy, the World Bank will build and strengthen its partnerships
with governments, forest-dependent people, the private sector, nongovernmental
FORESTS
organizations, and other donor agencies. Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy will be
of interest to all institutions that share the World Bank’s goal of promoting improved forest
conservation and management at both the country and global levels.
A Development Strategy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sustaining forests : a development strategy.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. )
ISBN 0-8213-5755-7
1. Forests and forestry—Economic aspects. 2. Forest policy. 3. World Bank.
4. Sustainable development. I. World Bank.
SD393.S87 2004
333.75—dc22 2004043984Contents
v
List of Appendixes ix
Preface xiii
Acronyms and Abbreviations xv
Executive Summary 1
The Challenges 1
World Bank’s Performance in the Forest Sector 1
Elements of the Strategy 2
Harnessing the Potential of Forests to Reduce Poverty 3
Integrating Forests in Sustainable Economic Development 4
Protecting Vital Local and Global Environmental Services and Values 5
The Importance of Country Ownership 6
Implementing the Strategy: Large Objectives, Modest Beginnings 6
Modifying the Forest Policy 7
Developing Demand:The Global Commons and Economic and Sector Work 8
Catalyzing Engagement and Investment 9
Partnerships 9
Selectivity and Sequencing 10
Expectations, Risks, and Realities 11
Large Tasks and Institutional Constraints 11
Outcomes 11
Risks 12Monitoring 14
External Advisory Group 14
1. Challenges and Realities in Forests 15
Importance of Forests 15
International Context: Global Conventions and Agreements 16
Global Challenges and Opportunities 17
World Bank Forest Performance, Strategies, and Policies 18
OED Review of the 1991 Strategy and Policy 18
Additional Indicators of Performance 19
vi New Directions in Bank Priorities 20
Links to Other Bank Strategies and Policies 21
Bank Safeguard and Operational P 21
Integrating Forest Issues in Poverty, Environment, Rural Development,
Gender, and Water Strategies 21
Developing and Implementing the New Bank Approach to Forests 22
The Importance of Country Ownership 22
Developing the Approach 23
Implementing the Strategy 23
2. The Forest Strategy: Proposed Bank Action 25
Principles of Engagement and Comparative Advantage and the Pillars
of the Strategy 25
Lessons for Engagement in Forests 25
Comparative Advantage 25
Three Pillars of the Forest Strategy 26
Harnessing Forests’ Potential to Reduce Poverty 26
Integrating Forests in Sustainable Economic Development 29
Cross-Sectoral and Macroeconomic Linkages 29
Expanding Nonfarm Rural Activities: Role of Small-Scale Forest
Product Enterprises 31
Governance in the Forest Sector: Forest Crime, Corruption,
and Regulation 31
Building a Role for Civil Society in Sustainable Forest Management 32
Approach to World Bank’s Forest Policy and Sustainable
Forest Management 34
Protecting Vital Local and Global Forest Values 37
Evolving Perception of Protected Area Strategies 37
Fostering Markets for Ecological Public Goods 37
Fostering the Linkage between Forests and Climate Change 38
Fostering Linkages between Poverty Reduction and Forest
Conservation Strategy 39
CONTENTSAligning Regional Programs with Corporate Objectives 40
Africa 40
East Asia and Pacific 41
Europe and Central Asia 42
Latin America and Caribbean 42
Middle East and North Africa 43
South Asia 43
3. Implementing the Strategy: Building Effective Partnerships 45
Issues in Implementation 45
Building Effectiveness 45 vii
Developing the Partnerships Necessary to Implement the Strategy 46
Donor and National Stakeholder Partnerships 46
Nongovernmental Organization Par 49
Improving Links to the Private Sector 51
Improving Internal Bank Working Relationships and Accountabilities 53
International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency 53
World Bank Institute 53
Role of the ESSD Forests Team 53
4. Implementing the Strategy: Incentives, Selectivity,
and Deliverables 55
Building the Internal Bank Commitment to Forests 56
Increasing Economic and Sector Work 56
Using Partnerships to Leverage Impact 56
Seeking Blended Financing to Address Local and Global Forest Issues 57
Supporting and Strengthening the World Bank/WWF Alliance 57
Increasing Involvement with Private Sector Partners 57
Selectivity 58
Alignment and Selecting Countries for Focus 58
Developing the Focus on More Flexible Lending 58
Expectations and Realities: Risks and Monitoring Progress 59
Institutional Realities 60
Some Potential Broad Outcomes, in Perspective 60
Risks 61
Monitoring the Bank’s Role 64
External Advisory Group 65
Notes 66
Bibliography 68
Index 74
CONTENTSBOXES
1.1 Why Forests Are Important 16
1.2 World Bank and Forests 19
1.3 Staff Survey: Effectiveness of 1991 World Bank Forest Policy
and Strategy 20
3.1 Functions of the United Nations Forum on Forests 46
3.2 Principles of National Forest Programs 46
3.3 World Bank/WWF Alliance Targets for Forest Conservation
and Improved Management 50