priorities for securing forest and community land rights
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Priorities for Securing
Forest and Community
Land Rights
Andy WhiteDecember 6
Global Landscapes Forum
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”
381.4 million ha
Forest tenure transition in LMICs2002-2003
96.6 million ha
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
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
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
Uneven progress across regions2013
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
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
New initiatives
The Interlaken “Call to Action”
(including working groups, baseline,
upcoming conference)
The International Land and Forest
Tenure Facility
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”
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
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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