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Conference on Forest Tenure and Regulatory Reforms:
Experiences, Lessons and Future Steps in Asia
Background and Rationale
Given that positive movements have been seen in some countries and recalcitrance in others, we are now well placed to review this mixed experience with the aim of facilitating further innovations in the interests of promoting community and forest well-being. Such an assessment can benefit from considering how the larger tides of economic and political developments (such as the financial crisis, the REDD+ agenda, resource commodity trade) have influenced the transformation of forest tenure and rights. This conference aims to provide a venue for open discussion of not only the gains of different dimensions of tenure and regulatory reform, but also on what stands in the way of further improvements where there has been progress as well as how reforms can be advanced in other countries in order to enhance forest governance. In this way, we can identify what steps are necessary to move forward as well as reduce the risk of rollback.
By holding the conference in China, we hope to highlight the bold moves taken by the Chinese administration since 2005 that helped set up the institutional foundation for a more secure community and household tenure system improving forest governance. At the same time, we recognize that there are still great challenges ahead. In addition, it is also important to consider what form of grievance redress mechanisms need to be put in place to ensure that the forest institutions deliver the outcomes originally sought. Simultaneously, this conference seeks to facilitate a comparative discussion of how the diverse experiences, in China and other Asian countries, can help identify the critical lessons learnt so that further new initiatives can be considered. This conference will explore these lessons and other overarching issues that impact the tenure security of forest peoples in Asia.
This conference builds up on the International Conference on Collective Forest Tenure and Regulatory Reform in China, co-organized by Peking University, State Forest Administration, the World Bank, and Rights and Resources Initiative in China in February 2008. It seeks to facilitate the sharing of experiences across Asia.
Objectives
Participants
Organizing Partners
Resources
Presentations
Friday, 24 September Opening Session:
Session Two:
Collective Forest Tenure System Reform in China
Zhang Lei, State Forest Administration (SFA), China
Innovations to Promote Tenure Reform
Zhejiang Forestry Department
Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China: Outcomes and Analysis of Performance
Xu Jintao, Peking University
Dr. Uma Lele (panel presentation)
Session Three (Parallel Sessions):
Jiang Chunqian, UN-FAO China
Forest Tenure Reform in Nepal: Experience from Community Forestry
Keshav Raj Kanel, Nepal
Rights, Authorities and Power: Forest Tenure Transition in Indonesia in relation to REDD
Ujjwal Pradhan & Gamma Galudra, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia
He Donghang, Huazhong Normal University
Forest Tenure Regimes in Nepal: What Made us to Re-think?
Indra Sapkota, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation - Nepal (panel presentation)
Indonesia Law and Forest Tenure
Basoeki Karyaatmadja, Ministry of Forestry - Republic of Indonesia
Law, Regulations, Forest Right and Tenure Reforms of Thailand (1 of 2), (2 of 2)
Preecha Ongprasert, Riyal Forest Department - Thailand
The "Five-in-One" Loan Model to Solve Farmers' Financing Problem
Huoshan County, Anhui Province
Proposed New Forest Regulations: Implications for Community Forest Rights in Nepal
Naya Sharma Paudel, ForestAction Nepal
Undoing Historical Injustice: The Indian Forest Rights Act, 2006
Madhu Sarin, RRI Fellow
Southern Forestry Exchange, Jiangxi Province
Forest Tenure in Vietnam: Achievements and Challenges
Nguyen Huu Dung, Vietnam National Administration of Forestry
An Overview of Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)
Apsara Chapagain, FECOFUN
Let the Farmers Master their Own Affairs in the Forest Tenure Reform (1 of 2), (2 of 2)
Jingshan County, Hubei Province
The Creative Implementation of the Forest Tenure Reform and the Benefits of "the Four Locals" Project (1 of 2), (2 of 2)
Tengxian County, Guangxi Province
Changes on the verdured mountain-side, benefits to the villagers
Shaowu County, Fujian Province
Let the Farmers Get Rich with the Resources: Forest Tenure Reform Experience in Changjiang
Autonomous County of Hainan
Develop Under-forest economy, Enrich local people
Heshui County, Gansu Province
Fulfill the dreams of people, increase the wealth of people
Taibai County, Shanxi Province
Saturday, 25 September
Session Five:
Tony La Vina, Ateneo School of Government
Ahmad Fauzi, Ministry of Forestry - Republic of Indonesia (panel presentation)
Bharat Pokharel, Swiss Intercooperation Nepal (panel presentation)
Session Six:
Jeffrey Hatcher, RRI
Li Ping, Rural Development Institute (RDI)
Don Roberts, CIBC World Markets (panel presentation)
Sebastien Malele Mbaba, Ministry of Environment, Conservation of Nature and Tourism - Democratic Republic of Congo (panel presentation)
Session Seven:
Denis Koulagna Koutou, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife - Cameroon
Frederic Djengo Bosulu, Ministry of Environment, Conservation of Nature and Tourism - Democratic Republic of Congo
Leslie Weldon, US Forest Service
Session Eight:
Ahmad Fauzi, Ministry of Forestry - Republic of Indonesia
Soulivanthong Kingkeo, National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) - Lao PDR
Ram Prasad Lamsal, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation - Government of Nepal
H.E. Chea Sam Ang, Forest Administration - Cambodia
Preecha Ongprasert (on behalf of Pramuk Tichakorn), Royal Forest Department - Thailand
