global partnership on forest landscape restoration (gpflr)

Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration

(Wanagama, December 2009)

Forested and de-forested areas in the world

20% of the world’s forests are still there, 80% has gone, but has the potential to be restored

GPFLR/WRI, 2009

Global Partnership on Forest Landscape RestorationStarted around 2005

International organisations: IUCN, WWF, PROFOR, UNFF, UNEP-WCMC, IUFRO, ITTO, ICRAF, CIFOR, FAO, CBD, CARE, ARC

UK Forestry Commission, US Forest Service Growing number of governments Growing number of individuals

Effectively restore the world’s degraded forest landscapes

Establish and improve relationships among resource managers, policy makers, environmentalists, researchers and other groups involved in forest landscape restoration

Encourage the development and use of innovative FLR approaches and methodologies

Promote global process of joint learning

Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration

Forest Landscape degradation

Production degradation Restoration

Forest landscape restoration

Restoration of degraded forest habitats, with:

Focus on human needs (food, fuel, recreation, etc)

Focus on production as well as on conservation

Focus on secondary forests, grazing lands, etc.

Forest Landscape Restoration

Maginnis, 2005:

A process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human well-being in deforested or degraded forest landscapes

Multi-functional mosaic landscapes

Forest Landscape restoration: see the bigger picture

Wanagama forest

Always done with the people of the landscape

Joint analysis of landscape dynamics

Creating a common vision

Building scenarios

Making participatory plans

Joint action

GPFLR learning network

GPFLR

Nested networks

Learning process at site level (intra-site)Learning process at global level (inter-site)

Financing FLR

Monitoring &learning

Transboundary issues

Landscape governance

Competing claims and conflicts

Analysing landscapedynamics

Site level restoration techniques

Multl-stakeholderinvolvement

FLR and REDD

Potential learning topics

Learning in networks

Experience

Exchange

Upscale

Real life encounters

Web-based tools

“Blended” learning

Blended learning

Blended learning

Web-based learning platform

Topical workshops Training

events

Assessment of global restoration

potential

Economic rationale of FLR

Site meetings

Resources & documents

Research

Kick-off meetings to get to know each other, define learning sites and contacts, define learning priorities

May 2009: Indonesia June 2009: Rwanda (Great Lakes) October 2998: Brazil November 2009: England December 2009: Indonesia, Thailand January 2010: Netherlands

Increasing number of initial meetings

First FLW workshop on Bali

Indonesian restoration guidelines

Learning site descriptions to promote exchange

Physical landscape characteristics

Current land use

Causes ofdegradation

Vision and strategy

StakeholdersAnd their interests

Concrete Restoration activities

Biggest successes

Problemsencountered

Lessons learned

Lessons yetTo be learned

ParticipatoryLandscape design

Collaborativelearning

How will I benefit from the Learning Network?

Connect and being connected Getting to know others, and others to know you Source of information (articles, tools, addresses) Sharing experience (discussion, chat) Scaling up of experiences to policy level Give and receive advice Capacity development (online & face-to-face) Connect to research programmes Function of “broker” (persons, funding, research)

“Ideas transform landscapes”

http://www.ideastransformlandscapes.org