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Why should local communities engage with national forest monitoring systems
- 1. Taiji Fujisaki Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) GCP’s Community-Based Forest Monitoring (CBFM) Networking 5th December 2015, Lima Peru Why local communities should engage with NFMS?
- 2. IGES action research: Community-based forest monitoring project (CBFM)
- 3. Potential of CBFM to local communities
- 4. Link with sub-national forest monitoring system Fig. Forest information flowchart of Bantul district, Yogyakarta Village governm ent Ministry District Forestry Village Office governm ent of Forestry Reporting •Timber production and trade •Tree Planting •Other rehabilitation activities Reporting •Timber production and trade Reporting flow To support village government to collect and report information on production
- 5. Potential to National Forest Monitoring System National Forest Monitoring System REDD+ activity Community forestry Co-management Biennial Reports National Gov Adapted from Yamanoshita (2013)
- 6. Muchas Gracious! IGES Resources for CBFM •Community carbon accounting – Manual: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/v iew.p hp?docid=4999 • Action research report: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/v iew.p hp?docid=4999
- 7. Muchas Gracious! IGES Resources for CBFM •Community carbon accounting – Manual: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/v iew.p hp?docid=4999 • Action research report: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/v iew.p hp?docid=4999
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- Since 2010, we have been conducting an action research to develop and test approaches to engage local communities in monitoring their forest in the Asia Pacific Region I think that many of us here agree that local communities can monitor forest resources and produce reliable information with proper training and back-up support. But what does it mean to local communities and forest monitoring system that each government has developed. It is critical to examine how local communities can contribute and benefit from monitoring their forests, and also to identify pragmatic links, given that the current national framework for monitoring forest resources
- There a re several literature and reports, which give hint why communities should monitor their forest resources From our action research in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, we have found Securing their land Strengthen forest management and access to the market Building local capacity to understand and participate in policy dialogue Support local knowledge Linking monitoring to the decisions of local people may help make monitoring more relevant locally and hence sustainable (Danielsen et al. 2005a).
- Is CBFM meaningful to existing forest monitoring system? Yes, I believe that CBFM can support forest information. The figure shows the forest information flowchart of the Bantul District, Yogyakarta province. The district forestry office report to the provincial and central government (Ministry of Forestry), including information on Timber production and trade Tree planting Other rehabilitation activities The District forestry office collects data about tree planting and rehabilitation. About the timber production and trade, the village governments are responsible to report to the District forestry office according to the Ministerial Regulation P.30/MENHUT-II/2012. However, the village governments often lack administrative capacity to track timber trading and complete reporting, this reporting system (Figure) has not worked as it should be. Accordingly, the District Forestry Office does not have information about how much volume of timber is produced and transported from its administrative boundary. In addition, there is no inventory data in the district forestry office. CBFM can support village government to collect information of forest resources. Also CBFM can help the district office to have information about existing biomass and potential of production forest (growth). However, current forest inventory system is characterised as strongly centralised. The district governments do not need to develop their own inventory system. Even if district governments have their own inventory data, there is no system to integrate such data.
- Given potentials and reasons that communities engage with forest monitoring, and pragmatic link with existing forest monitoring and information system, there is opportunity for community based forest monitoring to be integrated into national system. This is more possible in context of REDD+. The government will implement the REDD+ activity according to the REDD+ national strategy and community forestry and co-management of state forest will be included. In those areas, CBFM would be applicable and important for the REDD+ activities. The data from community and as well as from experts could be integrated at the national level then reported to the UNFCCC. For the NFMS, CBFM would improve accuracy of monitoring by increasing no of sample plots. Or, the data from the community maybe used for the independent data for verification More over, it can provide additional information for safeguards such as biodiversity and leakage which is also requested to report to the UNFCCC. and it would be able to contribute to benefit sharing