GACFConnecting Forest and People’ Voices Together

MAKING VOICESOF FOREST

PEOPLE to be HEAREDGhan Shyam Pandey, GACF

GACF

GACF- A process in Planting GACF is established in November 2004 by

Community organizations network and federation together to make community voices to be heard

Community Representatives led process

CF Voices are Lauded in Regional , international Policy Forums but yet not fully consider

GACF

Map of organizations

Amérique CentraleACICAFOC

NépalFECOFUN

FinlandeMTK

MexiqueUZACHI*

ColombieJ.A.E.P.

EquateurAPIS Pérou

ECOPOYENIRI

CamerounCAFT

RDCAILDECO-CONGO

IndonésieKalimatan Barat

GACF

Network's Identity Donors – strong pillar of good governance,

extensive channel of dissemination, source of legitimacy for donor support

Advocacy NGOs – frontline lobbyist for policy, raises legitimacy for funding

Technical NGOs – service delivery vehicle, raises legitimacy for funding

Political parties – important political space to influence

Govt bureaucracy – permanent opposition to government decisions and policies

Safeguards- very important for safeguard and to protect community rights

What does Network/Federation do?

Promote civil and political right agenda on forestry

Create civic resistance to non-democratic policy processes/decisions

Augment service delivery Contribute to policy

development Contribute to implementation

of good policies Influence national/

international /conceptual discourse (e.g global alliance)

How does Network/Federation act?

Empowering the members to claim their space

Service delivery to tie livelihoods concerns with democratising of forest

Action research to test new innovations

• Movement when dialogues fail• Lobbying/networking/ partnership for democratic

change• Communication /dissemination/discursive

participation for wider awareness

REDD +++

R- Rights, Recognition, RewardingE- Equity, elevation of povertyD- DevolutionD- Democracy, Development

in rural areas

GACF

Major Challenge

- centralization- climate colonization

- Intellectual Corruption - Losing rights

- Losing sovereignty

ExpandingRight

holders Space

Failure of Market

Failure of State

Failure of Donor Led

Development

opportunity and Way forward

opportunity and Way forward

Development Approach: Putting the

Last first

Forest, People and Institutions

Change is Possible

THANK YOU !

Ghan Shyam Pandey, Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal , (FECOFUN), GPO Box No. 8219

Purano Baneshwor, Kathmandu NepalPhone 00977 1 4485263 Fax 00977 1 4485262, Mobile 00977 9851002110

Email pandeygs2002@yahoo.com, gacfinformation@yahoo.comfecofun@wlink.com.np

Web www.fecofun.org , www.gacfonline.com