Mekong Regional Land Forum 2021, Session 2 ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry

1. A Regional Platform Working Towards More Sustainable and Inclusive Forestry
Practices:
Experience from the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) and
the ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC)
Alfi Syakila, AWG-SF Secretariat

2. • Social forestry in ASEAN has
various terms, but refer to the
same characteristics:
– Engages community living in
and around forests in SFM
– Empowers communities and
provide communities with
benefits
– access to forest resources in
SFM
• Tenure rights is important in
applying social forestry

3. Cooperation in Food, Agriculture and Forestry (FAF) in ASEAN
• ASEAN Vision on Food, Agriculture and
Forestry (2016- 2025):
– A competitive, inclusive, resilient
and sustainable Food, Agriculture,
and Forestry (FAF) sector integrated
with the global economy, based on
a single market and production
base contributing to food and
nutrition security and prosperity in
the ASEAN Community

4. Forestry Cooperation in ASEAN
ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry
(ASOF)
ASEAN Working Group on Forest
Product Development (AWG-FPD)
ASEAN Working Group CITES and
Wildlife Enforcement (AWG CITES
and WE)
ASEAN Working Group on Forest
Management (AWG-FM)
ASEAN Working Group Forest and
Climate Change (AWG-FCC)
ASEAN Working Group on Social
Forestry (AWG-SF)

5. Cooperation on Social Forestry in ASEAN
• The objective of the ASEAN Working Group on
Social Forestry (AWG-SF):
– Provide specific policy recommendations
on the effects of social forestry in
enhancing sustainable forest management
– Recognise & protect customary and
statutory tenure arrangements
– Access and use rights of indigenous
people, local communities, forest dwellers
and other forest-dependent communities
– Supporting appropriate legislation,
processes and mechanisms, including the
principle of FPIC

6. ASEAN- Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate
Change (ASFCC)

7. ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change
(ASFCC)
• Consultative program design, align with ASEAN documents
• Working at different level, regional, national and sub-national
• Effective mechanisms to engage with civil society
• At the national level, supported and complemented program and initiatives
of respective government (ie. support national working groups on SF/CF)
• Total area managed by community forestry in ASEAN increase significantly
(around 6mill ha in 2010 into more than 13mill ha in 2019) (Social Forestry and
Climate Change in ASEAN Region- RECOFTC)

8. ASEAN Guidelines for Sustainable Harvest
and Resource Management Protocols for
Selected Non-Timber Forest Products
(NTFPs)
https://asean.org/storage/20.-ASEAN-
NTFP-Guidelines-Final.pdf

9. https://www.recoftc.org/social-forestry-knowledge-tree

10. Moving Forward
• AWG-SF continue to work based on the mandate amidst the final
phase of ASFCC in February 2020
• Former ASFCC Partners committed to support the implementation
of Plan of Action (2021-2025)
• Priorities defined under POA, among others:
– State and Outlook of Agroforestry in ASEAN- deliverable in
2021
– Develop ASEAN Guidelines for Customary Tenure Recognition
– Legal guidelines established for FPIC in community
forestry

11. Thank you!