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Except where otherwise indicated, material may be copied, downloaded and printed for private study, research and teaching purposes, or for use in non-commercial products or services, provided that appropriate acknowledgement of FAO as the source and copyright holder is given and that FAO’s endorsement of users’ views, products or services is not implied in any way. All requests for translation and adaptation rights, and for resale and other commercial use rights should be made via www.fao.org/contact-us/licence-request or addressed to [email protected]. FAO information products are available on the FAO website (www.fao.org/publications) and can be purchased through [email protected]. Contents 1. Introduction and overview ................................................................................................................. 1 2. Progress with FFF Monitoring and Learning (M&L) system ................................................... 6 Background ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Progress in 2015 .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 3. Country reports .................................................................................................................................... 12 Plurinational State of Bolivia: producers get organized and catalyse new policy-support programmes ............12 Gambia: producer organizations trigger community forest transfer ............................................................................................16 Guatemala: organized producers transform incentive systems for millions of rural people .......................................20 Kenya: strengthening the Farm Forestry Smallholder Producer Association of Kenya to become a player in policymaking and rural development .................................................................................................................................................................26 Liberia: producer organizations develop agroforestry and biomass businesses .................................................................31 Myanmar: producer organizations pave the way to peace and the improvement of their livelihoods ................35 Nepal: producer organizations push through policy change for forest and farm businesses ......................................39 Nicaragua: producer organizations supporting indigenous women’s rights ..........................................................................43 Viet Nam: Group formation is already helping smallholders gain access to markets and secure better prices ..........47 Zambia: producer exchanges with Kenya and Liberia inspire new charcoal strategy......................................................51 4. Small grants summary 2015 ............................................................................................................ 55 The Gambia ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................57 Nepal ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................58 Myanmar ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................59 Guatemala ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................59 Bolivia .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................59 Liberia ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................60 5. Learning exchanges as South–South collaboration in 2015 ................................................. 60 Between countries ............................................................................................................................................................................................................61 6. Training ................................................................................................................................................... 65 7. Global and regional programme progress .................................................................................. 66 XIV World Forestry Congress (all global and regional partners) .....................................................................................................68 Learning ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................71 8. Communications ................................................................................................................................... 72 To amplify the core message of forest and farm producer organizations and multisectoral platforms ..............73 To strengthen the local capacity of POs ..............................................................................................................................................................74 To share learning between partners ....................................................................................................................................................................74 9. Knowledge generation ....................................................................................................................... 75 10. Reflections and lessons learned ................................................................................................. 77 Lessons Learned from the FFPOS ...........................................................................................................................................................................77 11. Partnerships and collaboration – leveraging impacts and resources .......................... 79 12. The FFF team ..................................................................................................................................... 85 13. Annex 1: Monitoring and Learning Aggregate Indicators for 2015 ............................. 86 ii PROPOSED AGENDA Forest and Farm Facility Steering Committee MeetingFAO, Rome Day 1 Wednesday, February 17th Opening Welcome and Introductions: 08:30 – 09:00 SC Chair with remarks from ADG-FOA/Dir. FOA Adoption of Agenda 09:00 – 09:10 SC Chair Confirmation of Minutes from Second Steering Committee Meeting 09:10 – 09:30 SC Chair Overview and major topics for guidance and discussion 09:30 – 10:00 Manager 10:00 – 10:15 Coffee/tea break What we are achieving: Stories of impacts and outcomes 10:15 – 12:00 Coaches, M & L team with observer invitees from other FAO Departments Discussion 12:00 – 12:30 Chair or Nominee from SC -with observer invitees from other FAO Departments 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch What we are achieving: the Exchanges and Training Programs 13:30 – 14:00 Coaches Communications and knowledge generation update 14:00 – 14:30 Communications (FAO) and knowledge generation (IIED) teams Learning and challenges to implementation at country and regional and global levels 14:30 – 15:00 Manager and Team Members Discussion 15:00 – 15:30 Chair or Nominee from SC 2015 Financial Statement 15:30 – 16:00 Manager 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee/tea break Discussion and approval of Financial Statement 16:30 – 17:00 SC Chair Wrap up of the last year 17:00 – 17:30 SC Chair 19:30 – 21:00 Group Dinner Day Two Thursday February 18th Special issues for discussion - Mid-Term Evaluation 08:30 – 9:45 Manager and SC Chair 9:45 – 10:15 Coffee/tea Break Special issues for discussion - Fund raising, Partnerships and Strategic