Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy

✍ Scribed by World Bank

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 99
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of the findings of an independent review of the 1991 strategy and a two-year consultative process with development partners and stakeholders around the world. The revised strategy, Sustaining Forests, is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development, and protecting global forest values. Recognizing the key role forests play in contributing to the livelihoods of people living in extreme poverty, government and local ownership of forest policies and interventions are emphasized along with the development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance and the mainstreaming of forests into national development planning. The strategy also aims to support ecologically, socially and economically sound management of production forests by ensuring good management practices through application of safeguard procedures and independent monitoring and certification. Implementation of the strategy will center on building and strengthening partnerships with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other donor agencies to promote better forest conservation and management at country and global levels.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 7
List of Appendixes......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 17
World Bank’s Performance in the Forest Sector......Page 19
Elements of the Strategy......Page 20
Harnessing the Potential of Forests to Reduce Poverty......Page 21
Integrating Forests in Sustainable Economic Development......Page 22
Protecting Vital Local and Global Environmental Services and Values......Page 23
Implementing the Strategy: Large Objectives, Modest Beginnings......Page 24
Modifying the Forest Policy......Page 25
Developing Demand: The Global Commons and Economic and Sector Work......Page 26
Partnerships......Page 27
Selectivity and Sequencing......Page 28
Outcomes......Page 29
Risks......Page 30
External Advisory Group......Page 32
Importance of Forests......Page 33
Global Challenges and Opportunities......Page 35
OED Review of the 1991 Strategy and Policy......Page 36
1.2 World Bank and Forests......Page 37
1.3 Staff Survey: Effectiveness of 1991 World Bank Forest Policy and Strategy......Page 38
Integrating Forest Issues in Poverty, Environment, Rural Development, Gender, and Water Strategies......Page 39
The Importance of Country Ownership......Page 40
Implementing the Strategy......Page 41
Comparative Advantage......Page 43
Harnessing Forests’ Potential to Reduce Poverty......Page 44
Cross-Sectoral and Macroeconomic Linkages......Page 47
Governance in the Forest Sector: Forest Crime, Corruption, and Regulation......Page 49
Building a Role for Civil Society in Sustainable Forest Management......Page 50
Approach to World Bank’s Forest Policy and Sustainable Forest Management......Page 52
Fostering Markets for Ecological Public Goods......Page 55
Fostering the Linkage between Forests and Climate Change......Page 56
Fostering Linkages between Poverty Reduction and Forest Conservation Strategy......Page 57
Africa......Page 58
East Asia and Pacific......Page 59
Latin America and Caribbean......Page 60
South Asia......Page 61
Building Effectiveness......Page 63
3.1 Functions of the United Nations Forum on Forests......Page 64
Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships......Page 67
Improving Links to the Private Sector......Page 69
Role of the ESSD Forests Team......Page 71
4. Implementing the Strategy: Incentives, Selectivity, and Deliverables......Page 73
Using Partnerships to Leverage Impact......Page 74
Increasing Involvement with Private Sector Partners......Page 75
Developing the Focus on More Flexible Lending......Page 76
4.1 Appropriate Forest Investments......Page 77
Some Potential Broad Outcomes, in Perspective......Page 78
Risks......Page 79
Monitoring the Bank’s Role......Page 82
External Advisory Group......Page 83
Notes......Page 84
Bibliography......Page 86
Index......Page 92
1.1 Why Forests Are Important......Page 34
3.2 Principles of National Forest Programs......Page 65
3.3 World Bank/WWF Alliance Targets for Forest Conservation and Improved Management......Page 68
2.1 The “Pyramid”—A Diagnostic and Planning Tool for Good Forest Governance......Page 53