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INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON FORESTS (IWGF) REPORT

Options

a) National, regional and local level participation

The CSD could:

1. encourage the meaningful involvement of the full range of stakeholders including women and indigenous peoples in forest management decisions. National capacities to deal with participation need to be strengthened. In many countries the staffs of national forest services may benefit from initiatives to enhance their skills in participatory forest management techniques;

2. provide opportunities for comparing experiences in participation. A study could be commissioned to look at lessons learned. This could include case studies on success stories and an analysis of obstacles to effective participation;

3. expand the guidelines for country reports to the CSD so as to include approaches to participation and progress made in this area;

4. call upon countries to include the full range of stakeholders in the development of national criteria and indicators for the management, conservation, and sustainable development of all types of forests and in the elaboration of national forest sector planning frameworks;

5. commission studies and encourage processes within the framework of the Biological Diversity Convention which are designed to provide appropriate returns to local communities, including indigenous people and forest dwellers, for the commercial use of their knowledge;

6. encourage development assistance agencies to build stakeholder participation into their programs.