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Priorities for Securing Forest and Community Land Rights Andy White December 6 Global Landscapes Forum

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Page 1: Priorities for Securing Forest and Community Land Rights

Priorities for Securing

Forest and Community

Land Rights

Andy WhiteDecember 6

Global Landscapes Forum

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Recent Research

Findings from 2 recent publications – focused on centrality

of community forest rights as to the future of forests.

Securing Rights, Combating

Climate Change(WRI/RRI 2014)

What Future for Reform? (RRI 2014)

Tracking the forest “tenure transition”

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381.4 million ha

Forest tenure transition in LMICs2002-2003

96.6 million ha

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381.4 million ha

Forest tenure transition in LMICs2002-2003

Lands

allocated to

IP/LC on a

conditional

basis, without

the full legal

means to

secure their

rights

96.6 million ha

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381.4 million ha

Forest tenure transition in LMICs2002-2003

Communities have the

legal right to exclude

outsiders, hold rights in

perpetuity, and have

the right to due process

and just compensation

96.6 million ha

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381.4 million ha

Forest tenure transition in LMICs2002-2003

Significant increase: from 21% of forested

lands to more than 30%

96.6 million ha

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Uneven progress across regions2013

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19.3

50.3

16.7

9.3

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

2002-2008 2008-2013

Increase in area recognized by time period and tenure category, in Mha

And recognition has slowed in REDD+

countries since 2008…

No legal frameworks created since 2008 recognize ownership

Designated for IPs and communities Owned by IPs and communities

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1) Growing global demand for resources and infrastructure

2) Growing global demand for justice: local and IP organizations are more able

to protest, protect, advance rights, and manage forests

3) Weakened social and environmental standards (e.g. Peru, Mexico, India,

proposed WB safeguards)

4) Reluctance / rollback on land rights in many countries

5) Many international companies pledging to respect local land rights

6) More positive court decisions (e.g. Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Colombia)

7) New commitments from donors to support recognition of Indigenous Peoples

and community land rights (e.g. Norad, DFID, Sida)

Current situation:Mixed signals, new momentum

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New initiatives

The Interlaken “Call to Action”

(including working groups, baseline,

upcoming conference)

The International Land and Forest

Tenure Facility

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Interlaken “Call to Action” to scale up securing community land rights

CO-CONVENORS

WORKING GROUPS/COLLABORATIVE GROUPS

Global mapping platform

Conservation

Private sector “Interlaken Group”

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Interlaken “Call to Action” to scale up securing community land rights

CO-CONVENORS

WORKING GROUPS/COLLABORATIVE GROUPS

Global mapping platform

Conservation

Private sector “Interlaken Group”

Next Conference:

October 2015

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International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (ILFTF)

Primary Functions:

1. Funding and technical support for tenure reform projects

2. A meeting place to coordinate commitments / develop shared strategies to

recognize and strengthen collective land rights

What Makes it Different:

1. Strategic, responsive, relatively low cost solution to numerous global

challenges

2. Multi-stakeholder governance brings together rights-holders, governments,

civil society, and investors (public and private)

3. Direct funding to IPs and local CSOs

Currently Underway:

1. Initial seed funding from Sida

2. Consultation processes with key stakeholders

3. National assessment and pilot projects in Indonesia, Colombia, Peru and

Cameroon

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