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WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS Building Partnership, Strengthening Final Report Unpublished WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS Building Partnership, Strengthening Capacities and Developing Forest Resources thru Community Based Forest Management A Joint Initiative of DENR-FMB and CIFOR Table of Contents Acknowledgements iii 1. Workshop Overview 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Objectives 2 1.3 Outputs 2 1.4 Processes 2 1.5 Participants 4 2. Experience in CBFM: Key Findings and Lessons Learnt 4 2.1 Challenges in CBFM 4 2.2 Variation in Strategies and Approaches Applied 8 2.3 Emerging Trends 9 2.4 Adaptive CollaborativeManagement (ACM) 11 3. Building Partnerships for CBFM 13 4. Capacity Building 15 5. CBFM Policies 16 6. Summary 18 i Annexes Annex 1. Workshop Program 20 Annex 2. Workshop Participants and Organising Committee 22 Annex 3. Summaries and Full Papers 26 Annex 3a. Experiences in Implementing the Water Resources Development Project in Region 4. 27 Annex 3b. Lessons Learned from the Forestry Sector Project: A Community- Based Forest Management Project. 38 Annex 3c. Adaptive Collaborative Management: A Value Adding Approach to CBFM in the Philippines. 41 Annex 3d. Building Partnership, Strengthening Capacities and Developing Forest Resources Thru Community Based Forest Management: The CFPQ Example. 79 Annex 3e. Model Forest Project in Samar. 96 Annex 3f. Developing Forest Resources DOF-Community Based Resource Management project (CBRMP). 99 Annex 3g. Community Forestry in the Philippines: Release through Scaling Down Our Failures. 105 Annex 3h. DENR-ITTO Project. 117 Annex 3I. A Review of NRMP Framework for Sustainable Forest Management in the Philippines. 120 Annex 3j. Peoples’ Organization’s perspective on CBFM Implementation. 134 Annex 3k. The Philippine Environmental Governance Project (EcoGov). 136 Annex 4. Results Of Policy Groups 138 Annex 4a. Draft of DENR Administrative Order No. 2002- on “Guidelines for strengthening the development and management of Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) areas”. 139 Annex 4b. Draft of DENR Administrative Order No. 2002- on “Guidelines on the implementation of joint venture and similar forest management agreements/contracts concerning the development, protection and utilization of project lands and/or forest resources in CBFM project areas”. 146 ii Acknowledgements We would like to express our gratitude to the Asian Development Bank for their financial support. This workshop was conducted as a part of ADB-funded research program under RETA 5812 “Planning for Sustainability of Forests through Adaptive Co-management” implemented by CIFOR and its research partners. We would like to thank the 10 CBFM- related project implementers who have presented their papers based on their experience on enhancing Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) program, and actively participated throughout the two-day workshop. This workshop could not take place without the full support of Director Romeo T. Acosta and the Steering Committee. In particular, we would like to point out the significant contribution and support of Celso Diaz, Rene de Rueda, Domingo T. Bacalla, and Luz Lopez Rodriguez. Lastly, special gratitude to the Organising Committee from DENR-FMB: Nilda Patiga, Natividad Espiritu, Evelyn Garcia, Loida Hunat, Rosalie Imperial, Guillerma Lagumbay, Luz Maria Lansigan, and Nestor Ortines, for their excellent support. Editors Herlina Hartanto (CIFOR ACM) Remedios Evangelista (DENR FMB) iii iv WORKHOP PROCEEDINGS Building Partnership, Strengthening Capacities and Developing Forest Resources thru Community Based Forest Management 1. Workshop Overview 1.1 Introduction Community forestry has a long history in the Philippines. Starting in the 1970s, community forestry programmes in the country included Forest Occupancy Management, Citizens Tree Planting, Communal Tree Farming, Family Approach to Reforestation, Industrial Tree Plantation, Integrated Social Forestry, etc. All these programmes led to the more comprehensive Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) programme. In 1996, Presidential Executive Order No. 263 mandated CBFM as the national strategy to ensure the sustainable development of the country’s forestlands. CBFM is now in place in more than 4,956 sites covering over 5.7 million hectares of previously open access forestlands. Through CBFM, partnerships among forest communities local government units, the private sector and other stakeholders are being built in order to strengthen their capacities to develop, protect and manage their forest resources. At this point in time, there has not been sufficient experience to gauge with certainty the success of the program as a key strategy for sustainable management in any objective way, such as using sets of criteria and indicators. On a more subjective plane however, the program has a wealth of experiences to share related to innovative and positive management schemes and practices, as well as on key constraints that currently beset it and perhaps reduce its ability to fulfill its objective as being a key strategy for Sustainable Forest Management. The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) initiated their research program on Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) in the Philippines since 1999. This program is a part of the global ACM research initiative in Asia (Indonesia, Nepal, Kyrgizstan), Africa (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Cameroon, Ghana), and Latin America (Brazil, Bolivia). ACM research activities in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Nepal, were conducted with the support from the Asian Development Bank under RETA 5812 “Planning for Sustainability of Forests through Adaptive Co-Management”. Adaptive collaborative management (ACM) aims to improve the ability of forest stakeholders to collaboratively manage a complex and dynamic system through continuous adjustments to their management systems. At the heart of the strategy are the conscious efforts to engage in on-going observations on the impacts of their management practices, continually reflect and learn from these observations, and subsequently adapt their management strategies, in a process of conscious continual learning. In the Philippine context, it was hypothesized that ACM concept and approaches would strengthen CBFM by enhancing collaboration between the People's Organisations (POs) and local stakeholders in planning and managing community managed forests. At the same time, ACM would enhance their capabilities to learn as a group on the consequences of their management, adapt their strategies based on their learning so that there will be incremental improvements in their management over time. 1 The results of ACM work in two CBFM sites over a period of 3 years have been very positive and promising. CIFOR attempted to share the experience and lessons learnt with as many as audience as possible at different levels, from local to international levels. It was recognized there is a need to share and disseminate research findings to policy makers at the national level. This has prompted CIFOR and DENR-FMB to jointly organize the Forum cum Workshop on Building Partnerships, Strengthening Capacities and Developing Forest Resources through Community-Based Forest Management. The workshop was intended not only to review the results of ACM and in what way ACM could further strengthen CBFM, but also to review the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies and approaches by different initiatives in CBFM, what have been accomplished and what else needs to be done in fulfilling the commitment of pursuing sustainable management of forest resources in the Philippines. 1.2 Objectives The objectives of the workshop are: 1. To identify strategies and approaches applied by different initiatives that have strengthened CBFM implementation; 2. To provide recommendations on how the lessons learnt from different strategies and approaches can be incorporated into the existing CBFM framework and policies. 1.3 Outputs It was expected that this workshop would produce recommendations which will be used as a basis in updating the Strategic Plan for CBFM and for crafting workable and implementable policies in CBFM. The wealth of experience and expertise of the workshop participants were also tapped to review and directly improve the following draft CBFM-related regulations: 1. DENR Administrative Order No. 2002- on “Guidelines for strengthening the development and management of Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) areas”. 2. DENR Administrative Order No. 2002- on “Guidelines for the establishment of the production sharing system in Community Based Forest Management projects and providing mechanisms for the operationalization, management and utilization of Community-Based Forest Management special account”. 3. DENR Administrative Order No. 2002- on “Guidelines on the implementation of joint venture and similar forest management agreements/contracts concerning the development, protection and utilization of project lands and/or forest resources in CBFM project areas”. 1.4 Processes The workshop consisted of the following processes: 1.4.1 Series of Presentations : Sharing of Key Findings and Lessons Learnt The workshop was initiated by a series of presentations from different projects in CBFM. Through presentations, project implementers presented the strategies and approaches applied in their projects and shared the lessons learnt and insights particularly in the four workshop’s key themes. The key themes were: 2 1. Collaboration and Partnerships building 2. Enabling Conditions for effective CBFM implementation 3. Skills and capacity building 4. Policy Environment Thirty-minute plenary
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