Introduction to FLR by Jeff Sayer

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Presentation by Jeff Sayer on the meaning of Forest Landscape Restoration regarding the notion of landscape and the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR).

Forest Landscape Restoration

q Forest landscape restoration (FLR) brings people
together to identify, negotiate and implement
practices that restore an agreed optimal balance
of the ecological, social and economic benefits
of forests and trees within a broader pattern of
land uses

FLR
• How much forest?
• What sort of forest?
• Where should it be in landscape?
• Who decides?
• Who owns it and uses it?

What is FLR?

• Efforts should aim to improve
both ecological integrity and
human well-being
• Restoration of a balanced
and agreed package of forest
functions
• Active engagement,
collaboration and negotiation
among a mix of stakeholders
• Working across a landscape
• Learning and adapting

A landscape is ???

• A landscape is an area of land that the eye can see
in one glance, with a specific set of ecological,
cultural and socio-economic characteristics that is
distinct from its neighbours

Or a landscape is ???

• “A geographical construct that
includes not only the biophysical
components of an area but also
social, political, psychological etc
components of that system.”
• “A landscape is a geographical
space in which the process or object
of interest is completely expressed
or functions.”

Global Partnership on
Forest Landscape Restoration
Goal:
Ø Catalyze, promote and
reinforce conditions for, and
approaches to, forest
landscape restoration that
deliver benefits to local
communities and nature, as
well as fulfil international
commitments on forests
ØAlmost 30 partners

Partners

• IUCN • ITTO
• WWF • Italy
• United Kingdom • Japan
• Alliance for Religions and • Kenya
Conservation • Lebanon
• CARE • Netherlands
• CBD Secretariat • PROFOR/World Bank
• CIFOR • South Africa
• El Salvador • Switzerland (SECO)
• FAO • United States
• Finland • UNEP-WCMC
• Ghana (FORIG) • UNFF Secretariat
• Global Mechanism for UNCCD • WBCSD
• ICRAF • China (tbc)
• IUFRO • Brazil (tbc)

Phase 2: 2006-2009

ØBuilding a learning network to improve critical
understanding and practice on FLR
ØContinuing to build support for FLR from the local to
the global level
ØReinforcing legal, policy and institutional
frameworks to support FLR
ØProviding people who have a stake in the role of
forests and trees with the information and tools they
need to help them make decisions on FLR, implement
them and monitor their impacts

For more information

www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/restoration/globalpartnership/

Resources

•Lally principles – IUCN/EcoAg partners
•EcoAg 20 questions
•Sangha Guidelines
•Bowral Principles and Guidelines
•ITTO Guidelines

IUCN/ITTO Objectives for
workshop
•Relevance of FLR to Indonesia
•What does Indonesia want from GPFLR
•What can Indonesia offer to FLR
•Exploring FLR concepts – approaches and
tools for use in Indonesia
•Indonesian learning site(s)
•Responsibilities for follow up
•Launching the learning network

Indonesian Principles or
Guidelines
• Would this be useful?
• Can we make progress this week?
• Who will take responsibility?

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