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Appendix: The development of the community forestry action programme within FAO


FLCD

FTPP I

FTPP II

FORESTRY FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - 1978

FORESTS, TREES AND PEOPLE PHASE I - 1987

FORESTS, TREES AND PEOPLE PHASE II - 1991

PROBLEM

· Forest services focused on trees not people

· Interested foresters, and others, needed approaches and tools to successfully carry out community forestry activities
· Needed more understanding of complex issues

· Limited local capabilities and experience in adopting and applying new approaches and tools

APPROACH

· Raise professional foresters' consciousness of forests as a resource for rural development

· Develop approaches and tools for community forestry on selected priority issues:
Women in forestry
Nutrition and forestry
Tree and land tenure
Communal management of forest resources
Non-timber forest products
Communication development
Development of training and research
Indigenous technical development
Small-scale forest-based enterprises

· Focus on development communications
· Strengthening decentralized planning
· Recurrent collaboration with selected host country institutions in continued development and adaptation of approaches and tools
· Improve community forestry curricula, education and training

ACTIVITIES

· Study tours and consultations at policy level
· Small catalytic activities in many countries

· Workshops and meetings for consultations at managerial level
· Pilot projects with studies and action research to deepen knowledge on selected issues in eight countries
· Small network

· Workshops and training
· Studies and action research in more projects
· Greatly enlarged and strengthened network and information exchange

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

· Publication of state of knowledge document “Tree Growing by Rural People”
· A great deal of interest was created in community forestry
· A new awareness of complexity of community forestry issues

· Better understanding of community forestry issues
· Foresters and social scientists involved in development of new approaches and tools
· New publications on selected topics

· Increased availability of documentation especially for field personnel
· Strengthening of centres of excellence for developing methods and adapting tools
· More communities benefitting from wise forest and tree management


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