Daily Coverage
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International Tropical Timber Council:
Thirty-Fifth Session
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Yokohama, Japan | 3 - 8 November 2003 |
Highlights
from Tuesday, 4 November
On
Tuesday, delegates met in council and committee sessions. In the morning,
Council considered: the report of the Expert Panel on Management of
Project Implementation; ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management
and Rehabilitation of Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests; and
the ITTO Biennial Work Programme. The Committees on Economic Information
and Market Intelligence (CEM), Forest Industry (CFI), Reforestation
and Forest Management (CRF), and Finance and Administration (CFA)
convened in the afternoon.
Photo: Members
of the Curtiba, Brazil Working Group, the
inter-sessional
working group on preparations for negotiating a successor agreement
to the ITTA, 1994.
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Michael
Hicks, US Department of Agriculture (left), presented
the report of the Expert Panel on Management of Project Implementation
(ITTC(XXXV)/8). He identified six main causes for ineffective
project implementation and monitoring, including poor project
design, lack of communication and coordination, lack of capacity
within executing agencies, and failure to follow ITTO rules
and procedures.
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Delegates
then commented on the report of the Expert Panel on Management
Ecuador
called for better-defined ITTO criteria and urged executing
agencies to focus on management activities.
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Brazil
stressed that all projects have been approved, and supported
by the US, felt that the inabilities of executing agencies are
a shared responsibility. The US
said that delays in project implementation require problem solving
at different levels.
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Ghana
recommended focusing on project management, rather than project
formulation.
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On
the Expert Panel report, Malaysia (right) supported
the report's recommendation and urged all parties to assume
their respective responsibilities.
The
Netherlands (not pictured) stressed the importance of
high-quality project design and recommended shifting the discussion
from the project level to the policy level.
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Guatemala during
the morning Plenary
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On
the report of the expert panel, the EU stressed the
need to focus on the project appraisal phase and develop criteria
for project continuation.
Regarding
the work programme, the EU, with Indonesia and China,
emphasized concerns about the budgetary constraints of implementing
the activities. Sobral responded by expressing his confidence
that the funds required would be covered by the main donors
and by funds in the Special Account and the Bali Partnership
Fund.
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Mülller, Secretariat (left) introduced ITTO guidelines
for the restoration, management and rehabilitation of degraded
and secondary tropical forests (ITTC(XXXV)/9). Jürgen
Blaser (center), Chair of the Preparatory Committee (PREPCOM),
summarized the output of a working group on the preparation for
negotiating a successor agreement.
(Listen to his presentation) Pekka Patosaari, United Nations
Forum on Forests (UNFF) (right), thanked the ITTO for its support
for the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), summarized
the mandate of UNFF, stressed the need to curb illegal logging,
and supported continued collaboration between UNFF and ITTO. |
| Committee on
Economic Information and Market Intelligence and Committee on
Forest Industry |
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Vice-Chair
Yeo-Chang Youn, and Co-Chairs Astrid Bergquist and Kaya Gilbert
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Dr.
Hwan-Ok Ma, Secretariat, Vice-Chair Yeo-Chang Youn, Emmanuel
Ze Meka, Secretariat, and Co-Chairs Astrid Bergquist and Kaya
Gilbert
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Delegates
from New Zealand, Switzerland and China
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| Committee on
Reforestation and Forest Managment |
| Dennis
Dykstra, ITTO consultant, John
Leigh, Secretariat, Co-Chairs A.S.K. Boachie-Dapaah and Henri
Félix Maître, Eva Mülller, Secretariat, Hiras Sidabutar, Secretariat,
and Polycarpe Masupa Kambale, Secretariat |
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A.S.K. Boachie-Dapaah and Henri Félix Maître, and the IUCN representative |
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Dennis Dykstra, ITTO consultant, and representatives from Papua
New Guinea, and Central African Republic |
| Committee
on Finance and Administration |
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Charas
Mayra, Secretariat, Chair Christopher Ellis, and Mahboob Hasan,
Secretariat |
Delegates
before the convening of the morning Council session (left) and
David Drake, Canada (right)
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