ENPI East FLEG Contributions to the ENA FLEG St. Petersburg Ministerial DeclarationAndrew MitchellJuly 9, 2014
Declaration Signatories • Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Uzbekistan.
Implementing Organizations: • World Bank, WWF and IUCN • active involvement of governments, civil society and the private sector • ~80% of activities at a country level • and strategically targeted sub-regional & regional actions. • support selected pilot activities
ENPI East FLEG I (2008-2012) Overall objective: • Tocontribute towards: • legal and sustainable forest management and utilization practices • a strengthened rule of law • improved local livelihoods, focusing on environmental sustainability, human right aspects and gender equity
Result Area 1: Increased awareness and commitment of key stakeholders on FLEG • Result Area 2: Effective national and regional FLEG action processes in place • Result Area 3: Increased national ownership and capacity • Result Area 4: Improved regional and sub-regional collaboration and knowledge sharing • Result Area 5: Effective engagement of key trading partners • Result Area 6: Continuation of the formal official Europe-North Asia FLEG process • Result Area 7: Sustainable forest management practices implemented ENPI East FLEG I: 7 Result Areas:
Analysis of the current forest sector status, and of the forest legislation, forest policy, and forest institutions, (all countries); • Support for increasing sustainable forest management capacities through reviewing, enhancing both the basic and ‘in service’ training for forestry professionals (e.g. specific training modules were developed, trialed, and then mainstreamed into the standard training program); • Support given to both regional and national levels for forest certification, and many of the policy and legislative recommendations will also increase the sustainability of forest management; • Support for forest policy (all countries), for support to develop appropriate timber sales systems and transparency, support for forest certification, Highlights:
Pilot activities (Belarus, Russia, Armenia, and Georgia), • Training of forest guards and forestry staff, utilization practices will have been enhanced; • Training of forest guards and development of handbooks and guidelines (Russia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine) for the implementation of processing of forest crime, changes in policy and legislation to reduce the drivers of poor forest governance, potential use of Log Tracking (Armenia), information and communications technology (Moldova), • Large outreach, public awareness raising will all help to strengthen the rule of law; and, • Specific pilot programs to support the development of alternative local livelihoods and community participation Highlights:
High-Level Political Commitment
Legal Reform: • FLEG Program technical analyses contributed to the development of forest policy and amendments to the Forest Law in Russia
Policy Reform • In Belarus, the formulation of new Forest Strategic Plans (2030) which addresses key governance issues is being prepared with ENPI FLEG support
Institutional Reform • In Moldova, the forest institutional reforms process has commenced with program support • In Ukraine, the program supported improvements in the processing of forest law infractions Organizational Structure of Modsilva
Private Sector Engagement • Design of a regional instrument to support science-based decisions on forest management for businesses and forest governance bodies using information on forests with high environmental value and biodiversity • Information support to forest companies to adjust to the new EU Timber Regulation • Providing incentives for small and medium businesses to encourage multiple use of forest resources in compliance with the principles of sustainable forest management
Community Engagement • Promoting best practices of local community sustainable development based on legal use of NTFRs • Making the best use of local resources instead of losing the potential value
ENPI East FLEG II Program PDO to: • Strengthen forest governance through improving implementation of relevant international processes; • Enhance forest policy, legislation and institutional arrangements; and, • Develop, test and evaluate sustainable forest management models at the local level on a pilot basis for future replication.
Country + Reg Work Plans Span the Full Range of Declaration Commitments
Sustained Effort
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