This document summarizes the strategies and annual reports of the project "Making the Forest Sector Transparent". The project aims to increase access to information about the forestry sector, influence forest governance, and support civil society organizations working on forest issues. It produces annual transparency reports that evaluate countries' compliance with transparency and access to information laws using 20 indicators related to forestry regulations, land tenure rights, and free prior and informed consent. The reports found that Ecuador and Peru had average compliance rates of 57% and 60%, respectively, and identified issues such as unclear land tenure, lack of consultation requirements, and need for comprehensive forest monitoring systems. The project recommends linking REDD+ programs to transparency in budgeting and finance flows.

1. MAKING THE FOREST SECTOR TRANSPARENT
www.foresttransparency.info
Liberia
Guatemala
Ghana
Ecuador
Cameroon
Perú
DR Congo

2. Main strategies of the project
• Greater access to information on the forestry
sector
• Effective influence in forest governance
processes
• Civil society organizations and coalitions working
on forest governance issues looking at
transparency and information access

6. Annual Transparency Report
Report Card Transparency and Access to
Information Law Compliance

7. Report Card
 Common assessment tool with 20 indicators
 Indicators refer to: forestry sector ‘s regulatory and
institutional framework and emerging issues such as: land
tenure rights, free prior and informed consent
 Traffic light evaluation:
Yes
Partially
No
N/A

8. SOME RELEVANT RESULTS

9. TAI Law Compliance Monitoring in 2011
 Executive branch with key competencies over
forest and natural resources
 Ombudsman
 Financial Ministries and Central Banks
ECUADOR (2004) PERU (2003)
12 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 16 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

10. TAI Law Compliance Monitoring in 2011
An INDEX composed by:
Updated
Detailed
Available
ECUADOR PERU
Average 57% compliance Average 60% compliance

11. Annual Transparency Reports

12. LESSONS: BASIC CONDITIONS FOR REDD+
NEEDED
o Informed population, especially forest peoples
o Strong political will
o Budget and efficient management
o Specific transparency, consultation and participation
provisions & mechanisms
o Information management systems in place: organization,
classification and systematized information

13. CRITICAL ISSUES
o TAI laws are generic: do not address forest
governance issues
o FPIC and consultation processes: only in paper
and not legally binding
o Land tenure and carbon rights are extremely
unclear
o There are no comprehensive forest cadaster
o Registries of REDD+ projects have no specific
TAI considerations

14. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS
o REDD+, forest governance and finance needs
to be linked to results with transparency in
budget and flows (MRV for finance)
o Multi-sectorial land use planning is
needed: Ecuador and Peru’s forests face
increasing pressure from extractive
industries

15. Contraportada
THANKS!
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Sigrid Vásconez
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