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Cover page Annual report 2016

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Contents Contents..................................................................................................................................................................... ii

Acronyms ........................................................................................................................ iv 1. Introduction and overview ........................................................................................ 1 2. Country reports ......................................................................................................... 5

Plurinational State of Bolivia ................................................................................................................................... 5

The Gambia ............................................................................................................................................................... 8

Guatemala .............................................................................................................................................................. 12

Kenya ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16

Liberia ...................................................................................................................................................................... 20

Myanmar ................................................................................................................................................................ 23

Nepal ....................................................................................................................................................................... 27

Nicaragua ................................................................................................................................................................ 30

Viet Nam ................................................................................................................................................................. 34

Zambia .................................................................................................................................................................... 38

3. Active Small Grants during 2016 .............................................................................. 42 4. Learning Exchanges as South – South Cooperation in 2016 ....................................... 43

Between countries ................................................................................................................................................ 43

5. Core trainings .......................................................................................................... 47 6. Global and regional programme progress ................................................................. 49 7. Communications ..................................................................................................... 52 8. Knowledge generation............................................................................................. 56 9. Mid Term Evaluation and Management response ..................................................... 61 10. Reflections and lessons learned ........................................................................... 65 11. Partnerships and collaboration – leveraging impacts and resources ...................... 68 12. Financial Statement 2016..................................................................................... 71 13. Phase II ............................................................................................................... 73 14. The FFF team ....................................................................................................... 75 Annex 1: Monitoring and Learning Aggregate Indicators for 2016 .................................... 77 Annexe 2: Active Small Grants in 2016 by initiating year, country, purpose, type of organization and outreach .............................................................................................. 83 Annexe 3: List of LoAs ..................................................................................................... 90

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PROPOSED AGENDA Forest and Farm Facility Steering Committee Meeting

February 15 - 16, 2017 FAO, Rome16-17,O, Rome

Day 1 Wednesday, February 15th India Room A-327

08:30 – 09:00 Opening Welcome and Introductions: SC Chair with remarks from Dir. FOA

09:00 – 09:10 Adoption of Agenda SC Chair

09:10 – 09:30 Confirmation of Minutes from Previous Steering Committee Meeting SC Chair

09:30 – 10:00 Overview and major topics for guidance and discussion Manager

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee/tea break

10:15 – 12:00 What we are achieving: Highlights and Stories of impacts and outcomes from Partner countries Coaches, M & L team

12:00 – 12:30 Discussion Chair or Nominee from SC

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 What we are achieving: Highlights from Exchange visits – Regional and Global support Coaches and IUCN team

14:00 – 14:30 Communications and knowledge generation update Communications (FAO) and knowledge generation (IIED) teams

14:30 – 15:00 Mid-term Evaluation – Management Response

15:00 – 15:30 Discussion Chair or Nominee from SC

15:30 – 16:00 2016 Financial Report Manager

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee/tea break

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion and approval of financial report SC Chair

17:00 – 17:30 Wrap up of the last year SC Chair

19:30 – 21:00 Group Dinner

Day Two Thursday, February 16th India Room A 327

08:30 – 10:00 Work Plan for 2017 – Proposed Budget for 2017 Management team

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee/tea Break

10:15-11:15 Special issue for discussion – Maximizing the Impact in the Final Year of Phase I Manager and SC Chair

11:15-11:45 Discussion and approval of work plan and proposed budget for 2017 SC Chair

11:45 – 12:45 Introduction to Phase II – Manager and team

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Discussion of Phase II

15:00- 15:30 Reflections from Observers and Donor Support Group DSG Chair

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/tea break(observers depart)

16:00 – 17:00 Final Internal SC Discussion. SC Chair Round of Thanks (Dir. FOA)

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Acronyms

ACOFOP Association of Forest Communities of Peten AFA Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development AGFP All Gambia Forestry Platform APROVE Honey Producers Association of the Velasco Province (Plurinational

State of Bolivia) AMPB Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques ANR Agriculture and Natural Resources (the Gambia) APTM Plurinational Mother Earth Authority ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations CFI Community Forestry Instruction (Myanmar) CFNWG Community Forestry National Working Group (Myanmar) CFPPA community forest product producers association (Myanmar) CIOEC Interagency Coordination of Peasant Economic Organizations

(Plurinational State of Bolivia) CNAMIB National Confederation of Indigenous Women of Bolivia CONAFOR National Forestry Commission (Mexico) CONAP Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (Guatemala) COP Conference of the Parties COPRACAO National Federation of Cocoa Producers and Collectors of Bolivia DDCC district development coordinating committee (Zambia) ECCDI Ecosystem Conservation and Community Development Initiative

(Myanmar) FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAST Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade FDA Forest Development Authority (Liberia) FECOFUN Federation of Community Forest Users Nepal FEDECOVERA Federation of Cooperatives of Verapaz (Guatemala) FFF Forest and Farm Facility FF-SPAK Farm Forestry Smallholders Association of Kenya FLEGT Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade FNCSI Federation of Nepalese Cottage and Small Industries FNMCIOB National Confederation of Originating Indigenous Peasant Women

(Bolivia) FSC Forest Stewardship Council FUN Farmer Union Network (Liberia) GACF Global Alliance for Community Forestry GCI Interinstitutional Coordination Group (Guatemala) GTI Indigenous Territorial Government (Nicaragua) G3 Three Rights Holders Group Alliance KFS Kenya Forest Service KFWG Kenya Forest Working Group IATPTF International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the

Tropical Forest IFFA International Family Forestry Alliance IIED International Institute for Environment and Development INAB National Forest institute (Guatemala) INAFOR Instituto Nacional Forestal (Nicaragua) IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature

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LFFP local forest and farm platform (Zambia) LoA letter of agreement MA&D Market Analysis and Development MCMA Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Comprehensive

and Sustainable Management of the Forest and the Mother Earth (Plurinational State of Bolivia)

MDRyT Ministry of Rural Development and Land (Plurinational State of Bolivia)

MERN Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-Conservation Network MINGA Association of United Working Groups (Plurinational State of Bolivia) MITA Intersectoral Platform for Land and Environment (Guatemala) MMAyA Ministry of Environment and Water (Plurinational State of Bolivia) M&L monitoring and learning NACUL National Association of Charcoal Union of Liberia (Liberia) NFLF National Forest and Landscape Forum (Liberia) NECSA-K National Environment Civil Society Alliance of Kenya NFP national forest programme NFPG National Farmers Platform of the Gambia NVCARD North Vietnam college of Agriculture and Rural Development PGIB-T integrated forest and land management plan (Plurinational State of

Bolivia) PSB Social Pact for Forests (Plurinational State of Bolivia) RACCN Región Autónoma Costa Caribe Norte (Nicaragua) RCA Rakhine Coastal Region Conservation Association (Myanmar) RECOFTC Center for People and Forests REDD+ reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and

the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks

Red MOCAF Mexican Network of Peasant Forestry Organizations ROPPA Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organisations of

West Africa SAAI Secretaria de Asuntos Indigenas y Afrodescendientes (Nicaragua)

Sida Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency SO strategic objective (FAO) SPCC Sistema de Producción, Consumo y Comercio of Siuna (Nicaragua) TAC technical advisory committee (the Gambia) TIOC Original Indigenous Native Peasant Territories (Bolivia) UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFF United Nations Forum on Forests UN-REDD United Nations Collaborative Initiative on Reducing Emissions from

Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries US$ United States dollar(s) VNFOREST Viet Nam Administration of Forestry VNFU Viet Nam Farmers’ Union ZNFU Zambia National Farmers’ Union

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1. Introduction and overview “The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) programme is filling gaps in rural development cooperation; strengthening the capacity of forest and farm producers and enabling them to engage in policy advocacy.” Mid-term Evaluation of the Forest and Farm Facility, August, 2016

“FFF -Filling the gaps in rural development”

This headline for the summary of the independent mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the FFF completed in August 2016 was an important affirmation of the catalytic work in support of Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (FFPOs) and cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder platforms. This is particularly significant given the new global development context of Agenda 2030 and Paris Climate Agreement. Now, more than ever the role of FFPOs is needed to ensure the effective, and equitable delivery of the SDGs and to demonstrate how they can be key agents in improving the livelihoods of their members. FFF was able to draw on its work in progress in many countries to underline this strategic potential drawing on concrete examples of policy changes, improved tenure security, increased incomes, better access to markets, empowerment of women and the exchange of information and knowledge. The MTE found that FFF was well on track to meeting the outcomes and impacts projected; and was doing this in a very efficient manner – in terms of the quality of delivery, the coordination of the implementing partners, and the value for investment. This confirmed that FFF’s unique focus on strengthening the capacity and roles of FFPOs to serve their members and be primary actors nationally – effectively filling the vital gap in real direct support to small holders and small scale producers - is on target. FFPO partners surveyed during the MTE mentioned how unique FFF was because it provided direct funding to producers, backed by the more typical capacity building efforts of many other projects. The conclusion of the MTE is also a reflection of the conscious effort to tailor responses in each country to take advantage of unique opportunities to contribute to policy change, leverage resources and advance agendas of key actors, especially forest and farm producers. This linkage to key policy levers in many of the 10 countries has given FFF more visibility and acceptance than many much larger programmes. A noteworthy finding of the MTE was the high level of ownership and support for FFF within both government and FFPOS. This in itself has facilitated improved links between the two major constituencies of our support – helping both FFPOS and government to help each other.

Making impacts which affect the lives of individuals, families, organizations

Perhaps more important, the MTE found that FFF was improving businesses and livelihoods of producers on the ground, of women and indigenous peoples and family farmers and that results were evident across a range of additional “capitals” other than economic. In other words the work of the FFF was also empowering FFPOs and their members with social and political capital – increasing confidence and ability to speak out, advocate for change and take action. This was gratifying because the FFF team did not set out with such an explicit focus on this – though the work on strengthening governance of FFPOs, exchange visits and trainings clearly contributed. When thinking primarily about organizations we cannot lose sight of the individual women and men whose purposes they should serve. This impact on the lives of individuals and small organizations really came to light during the FFF’s retreat in February where, in a departure from the dry power point presentations of results, we passed a story-telling stick around and each of the country facilitators spoke about real change in the lives of individual producers and small organizations that were inspiring others. A number of these stories illustrated the positive trajectory that comes from getting organized: better prices, links to buyers, more orders and contracts, exploration of value

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addition activities, more contacts, the ability to take part in facilitating support to more colleagues and take part in events and exchanges not imagined before. Taking these impacts to scale through apex FFPOs, policy changes and linkages to more resources was usually one of the motivations and challenges that came at the end of each moving story. We are looking at ways to tell these stories more effectively.

Going to scale by linking to policies, tenure security and implementation

2016 saw ongoing work that started to reach a higher scale. One primary reason for this is that in a number of countries the work of the FFPOs in identifying and advocating for priority policy related change and implementation has helped focus FFF’s support to the country. This is the case in Guatemala with the next phase and roll out of the Probosque legislation, in Nepal with policy changes related to marketing of trees from private farm lands, in Myanmar to new Community Forestry Instructions and their implementation, in Bolivia to incentive programmes for different FFPOs commodity producers (cacao, coffee, amazon fruits) to name a few. FFF has continued to improve the tenure security of FFPOs through ongoing work to prepare an additional 60 community forestry groups for their official recognition in The Gambia and through the development of territorial management plans and community forestry plans in both Bolivia and The Gambia. Partner country governments have seen a direct connection between FFF support and more successful implementation of policies.

Deepening work on value chains and gender equality

The MTE also made some good recommendations especially related to enhancing the work on value chains and deepening the focus on women going forward and efforts were already initiated in 2016 to respond to these recommendations. To expand the work on value chains: new tools have been developed and field tested around risk assessment and management for FFPO enterprises which can help them access finance and explore higher levels of value addition and value chain entry points. Work was initiated on a new “guide to guides” to provide a decision making tool to help FFPOs evaluate a variety of tailored certification and labelling possibilities to add value and enter new local and international market chains. To further deepen the emphasis on women – FFF began work on a draft gender strategy (completed as a draft in February 2017) informed by gender assessments undertaken in each country at the end of 2016. A half day training on gender dimensions in FFF was held for the entire FFF team at the retreat in January 2017.

Focused exchanges, learning and knowledge generation yielded concrete results.

2016 also saw advances in how FFF uses exchange visits to build capacity and influence policy, positioning these much more in the context of South-South Collaboration. A number of cross-country/regional exchanges took place in Latin America (hosted in Guatemala), Africa (hosted in Kenya, Uganda and The Gambia) and Asia (hosted in Thailand). The exchanges were designed around specific objectives and efforts made to identify the most relevant participants. Building on a new FFF tool on exchange visits (How to facilitate successful exchanges of experiences among POs. Practitioner’s guide) FFPO members and government partners came prepared with a learning objective and left with plans to implement lessons learned. FFPOs partners played a major role in organizing an entire stream on FFPOs and Indigenous Peoples at the Asian Regional Forestry Commission meeting in Philippines. Important issues including the need to re assess the validity of shifting cultivation as a landscape management strategy, and value addition through marketing of non-timber forest products and other community forestry enterprises were raised. Issues identified by FFPOs were presented both during the open sessions and the official Commission meetings.

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Maintaining a focus on good governance and transparency

Two vital elements in the Tool Kit for Strengthening FFPOs drafted and piloted in 2016 are the Self-assessment tool for Producer Organizations to identify their needs and Strengthening governance and gender equality in POs. These were well received when field tested in several countries. The self assessment allows FFPOs to identify their strengths and weaknesses and prioritize their need for capacity building so that they can keep growing and improving as representative member based organizations. We were reminded in 2016 of the importance of such self assessments and the need to monitor transparency, oversight and good governance. This can be a major challenge even for the oldest and most respected of apex FFPOs. This emphasizes the need to be vigilant and help put in place proper procedures for financial management and periodic audits and reviews. It also explains why FAO letters of agreements are quite clear about the proper procedures to be taken when there is any serious concern about the handling of funds.

Positioning FFPOs as “Operating Systems for the SDGs “ and as primary agents in the delivery of climate change responses at the landscape level

This year saw much more focused efforts to mobilize attention and resources to the primary role of FFPOs in the new development context of Agenda 2030 and Paris Climate Agreement. This was done through the joint publication with AgriCord on Forest and Farm Producer Organizations –Operating Systems for the SDGs which was launched at the European Development Days in Brussels in June and through a major side event organized with CIFOR and RRI at COFO in Rome in July on and Climate Change – an Unfinished Agenda – “Local communities, Indigenous peoples, smallholders and their organizations as the enabling actors to address climate change”. A new FFF infographic on this issues was released at the event. FFF’s regional and global partners continued their active engagement on organizing and policy advocacy with a substantial presence in the UNFF and Conference of Parties of both the UNFCCC and the CBD and side event at the World Conservation Congress, while the FFF management team provided inputs into a major paper on Forestry and Food Security and Nutrition being prepared by the High Level Expert Panel for the Committee on Food Security meeting in 2017.

Growing demand from countries and synergies with other programmes

2016 saw a marked increased in interest in FFF from producer organizations and governments in a number of countries including Tanzania, DRC, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Caribbean region just to name a few. Strong links have been established within the FAO Strategic Programmes particularly SP3 dealing with Reducing Rural Poverty where FFF is now described as a flag ship programme. Coordination is growing with FAO Regional initiatives and many regular programme teams in FAO.

Resource mobilization for Phase I

Considerable time and effort was spent in 2016 to try and mobilize resources for the final year of Phase I as there was a significant shortfall which needed to be filled. The German Carlowitz project came to an end and reduced overseas development budgets led to lower or delayed funds from other core donors. Concept notes and proposals were developed for IFAD, the African Union, the Green Climate Fund, Norway (NCFI), the MacArthur Fund (lead by IUCN, with support from FAST) and while some of these are still under discussion none has yet resulted in funding. Fortunately much appreciated follow on funding was received from core donor Finland at the end of 2016 and two focused efforts finally bore fruit: FFF was awarded funding through the FMM, a multi-donor fund managed internally by FAO (with contributions from Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden) and from the EU as part of supplemental funding provided for work on FFPOs and value chains in coordination with CIFOR and channelled through FLEGT. Additionally many meetings were held with other prospective donors including the EU and Global Affairs Canada (with support from SC

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members Noemi Perez from FAST and Peter DeMarsh from IFFA).Both EU and Canada have left the door open to consider funding for Phase II.

Moving ahead with Phase II – Climate Resilient Landscapes and Inclusive Livelihoods Enabled through Forest and Farm Producer Organizations.

Finally considerable effort has been taken to develop a program concept for building on Phase I and taking this to scale in terms of impact and the number of partner countries. The concept takes into account the new global developmental environment and the recommendations from the MTE. It builds on the Pillars of phase I – adding more emphasis to value chains and enterprise development, a conscious effort to link FFPOs as the primary actors to climate resilient landscape responses, a much greater focus on women, youth and Indigenous Peoples and support to FFPOs in providing social benefits and helping achieve many other SDGs. This Annual Report for 2016 provides detailed information on the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) work in ten partner countries – the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Guatemala and Nicaragua in Latin America; the Gambia, Kenya, Liberia and Zambia in Africa; and Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam in Asia – and at regional and global levels in 2016. It summarizes the work done under FFF’s three primary pillars:

I: Strengthen smallholder, women, community and Indigenous Peoples’ producer organisations for improved business and livelihoods and effective engagement in policies

II: Catalyze multi-sectoral policy platforms with government for enhanced policy dialogue between stakeholders and government

III: Link local voices and learning to global arena through communications, genuine partipatory processes and information sharing.

Updates on communications, knowledge generation, exchange visits and the M&L system are provided along with a short discussion of the MTE and the broad outlines of the Phase II. 2016 has been a busy year of growth and impact – paving the way for the last full year of Phase I.

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2. Country reports

Plurinational State of Bolivia Country coach: Jhony Zapata; national facilitator: Boris Fernandez; M&L oversight: Duncan Macqueen

Background

The 38 indigenous people’s that make up the ‘Plurinational’ State of Bolivia are among South America's poorest and most forest dependent people. Half the land area (53 million hectares) is

covered in forest. Through the Government of Evo Morales’ Forest and Lands Audit and Social Control Authority (ABT), 23.2 million hectares had been newly titled or retitled to communities through a legal mechanism know as Original Indigenous Native Peasant Territories (TIOC). Bolivia has also set up the Plurinational Mother Earth Authority (APTM) that oversees three new climate change mechanisms covering including a joint mitigation and adaptation programme (MCMA). The Forest and Farm Facility began operations in Bolivia, in September 2014, after coordination with the Government of the Plurinational State through the Ministry of Rural Development and Land (MDRyT) and the Ministry of Environment and Water (MMAyA). An advisory committee approved the "Framework for the implementation of FFF" which recommended that it (i) Support the implementation of the a) Law of Mother Earth; b) Productive Revolution Law; c) Forest Restitution and Food Production Law; and d) Economic Peasant Organizations Law; (ii) that it be implemented in 3 departments (North La Paz, East Santa Cruz and West Pando) and that (iii) it prioritise womens groups among national, departmental and municipal producer organizations.

Results and learning in 2016

Pillar 1. Strengthening producer groups for business and policy engagement

Outcome 1. Producer groups are strengthened for policy engagement

In 2016, a range of efforts were made to facilitate new or strengthen existing forest and farm producer organisations through LoAs with 8 FFPOs within Bolivia (see list above). During 2016 a particular highlight was the work by the newly formed National Confederation of Cocoa Growers and Gatherers (COPRACAO - 3785 men and 828 women) and the National Association of Coffee Growers (ANPROCA – 250 mixed producers) to legalise new members, and participate in the design and approval of the financing for the "National Program to Strengthen Cocoa Production in Bolivia" with a budget of USD 37,626,628 (260,000,000 Bolivianos); and the President's commitment to finance the "National Coffee Program" with a budget of USD 36,179,450 (250,000,000 Bolivianos). In addition work with AOPEB will allow the evaluation of the advances and / or the need to adjust the country's organic production policy in the framework of the "VII Latin American Meeting of the Caribbean of Ecological and Organic Agriculture". An additional achievement this year was the

FFF partners in Bolivia with whom formal agreements have been signed

COPRACAO (National Confederation of Cocoa Growers and Gatherers)

ANPROCA (National Association of Coffee Growers)

CIOEC (The Interagency Coordination of Peasant Economic Organizations Bolivia)

AOPEB (Association of Organizations of Organic Producers of Bolivia)

MINGA (The Association of United Working Groups)

APROVE (The Honey Producers Association of the Velasco Province)

COINACAPA (Cooperativa Integral Agro extractivist Peasants of Pando)

ASICOPTA (Integral Association of Harvesters, Producers and Fruit Transformers

of Abuná)

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elaboration of a Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) with the financial resources of the FAO Representation Bolivia to elaborate the "Sustainable Agricultural Productive Support Program for the Bolivian Amazon" with a budget of USD 36,179,450 (250,000,000 Bolivianos). It is important to note that the decisions that the Bolivian government has taken (facilitated by FFF inputs to national FFPOs) in implementing the three national programs above have been possible because FFF is closely aligned with Bolivian development policy for forest territories that seeks: the integral and sustainable management of the natural resources of the forest management, implementation of agroforestry systems and ecological production.

Outcome 2. Producers are organised for business

This year, implementation of the FFF with CIOEC Bolivia, through its subsidiary in Pando, led to the development of twelve projects for the implementation of agroforestry systems with different community groups. The work also leveraged USD 289,435 (2 billion Bolivianos) from MDRyT / DETI. Another important result was achieved with the coffee association ANPROCA, an organization that carried out the "National Tournament of presidential coffee". At the culmination of the event the international auction of the winning coffees was carried out and the price was raised by almost 600%. The price of coffee in Bolivia is paid at approximately 1.53 USD per pound, but after the coffee tournament and identification of special coffees, international buyers (now Japanese) bought at 8.80 USD per pound. A first cycle of Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) training has led to business plans in APROVE. Technical assistance and support between the honey association APROVE and the Municipal Government of San Ignacio de Velasco is continuing so that the municipality can buy sachets of honey to provide at school breakfast. FFF supports also Abuná association ASICOPTA. Although the process is more recent with ASICOPTA, technical assistance is being provided to this organization for the establishment of a cold chain that will allow to accommodate its production (pulp of asaí) throughout the year in the markets of the three cities with the most inhabitants of Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and La Paz). Support to COINACAPA, AOPEB and ANPROCA has also led to the design of services for members. For example, the agro-extractivist cooperative COINACAPA and coffee association ANPROCA, through their processing plants, are providing services of cocoa and coffee transformation. Once the finished product is obtained, it is returned to the producer for him/her to market independently or sell it to the productive organization that offers the best price. On the other hand, the organic association AOPEB is being provided technical assistance for the design of a "Services Unit" that will provide services to its associates in the areas of accounting, transformation of production with value added and search of new markets. The eight LoAs supported by FFF in Bolivia incorporate a component of exchange of experiences. The highlights in 2016 included the "National Fair of Peasant Economic Organizations" held by the CIOEC; the links established by MINGA with producer organizations and institutions in Brazil; the First Technical Conference on Cocoa Production, which was held by COPRACAO; and the participation of ASICOPTA in the analysis of lessons learned with other producer organizations in the amazon.

Pillar 2. Catalyzing multi-sectorial policy platforms

Outcome 3. Cross-sectorial policy coordination for sustainable forest and farm management

Within this component of FFF work, support has been given to the Ministry of Environment and Water (MMAyA), specifically to the General Directorate of Forest Management and Development (DGGDF), to analyse and formulate instruments of integrated and sustainable forest management within Bolivia. To complement this work, an LoA signed with the Association of Joint Working Groups (MINGA), has allowed for the piloting with the DGGDF of Comprehensive Forest and Land

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Management Plans - PGIBT for communities peasants and indigenous people settled in the Chiquitano forest of Bolivia. A national manual for the elaboration of PGIBT / POGI (Integral Management Operational Plans) has been approved by the responsible institutions of MMAyA in charge of forest management.

Pillar 3. Linking local voices to global processes

Outcome 4. National and global agendas are informed by the priorities of local producers and vice versa

Joint work by the national FFF facilitators in Bolivia Guatemala and Nicaragua, led to the participation of representatives of MINGA, AOPEB, COPRACAO and the DGGDF in an exchange of experiences of agroforestry producers, in the newly created Rural School of Agroforestry in FEDECOVERA, Guatemala. The exchange was entitled "Successful organizational models for the integration of Small producers, women, indigenous peoples and young people in forest and agroforestry value chains" and was held from April 11 to 15, 2016. Eight countries participated. A second major initiative was to ensure the participation of a representative of COPRACAO at the International Congress of Cooperatives held in Canada. In the case of MINGA and AOPEB impacts included new strategies within their productive organizations to provide services to their members, and through these actions to improve the financial sustainability of their members. In the case of COPRACAO a process led to leveraged SOCODEVI financing for a project to equip laboratories and implement new agroforestry systems in the plots of the cocoa producers.

Lessons learned

It is important to note that the decisions that the Bolivian government has taken to implement three major national incentive programs for FFPOs mentioned above have in part been possible because of the careful alignment between the FFF, its FFPO grantees and Bolivian policy intentions, namely: the integral and sustainable management of the natural resources of the forest management, implementation of agroforestry systems and ecological production. Business training and other forms of value chain support are progressing well, but much more needs to be done to build financial capacity with FFPOs and access to finance. There is a common agreement that the provision of services by umbrella organizations to their members is the way to move forward. For this reason the technical system that the FFF is offering to ANPROCA, COINACAPA and AOPEB is oriented in this direction. Weak links from national to global processes and vice versa could perhaps be strengthened through more investment in “communication centres” with tools and specialized information for producer organizations – such as "applications" with links to communicate and coordinate initiatives with productive organizations at a regional and global level.

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, three multi-million dollar incentive programmes for cocoa, coffee and agroforestry systems were rolled out following design inputs from FFPOs supported by FAO – complementing more specific FFF-supported advances in coffee pricing (through a national coffee quality tournament), coffee and cocoa processing, and honey value chains.

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The Gambia Country coach: Sophie Grouwels; national facilitator: Kanimang Camara; M&L oversight: Anna Bolin

Background

The Gambia has a relatively well established history of community forestry. A recognition that state-controlled top-down forest management approaches were partly responsible for a drastic decrease in closed woodland cover over the preceding 40 years led to the emergence of participatory forest management approaches in the early 1990s. Over a period of a decade ownership and management responsibilities over community forests were gradually handed over to local communities by the Government, who also recognised the need for enterprise development to be implemented in synergy with increased rights. The legal framework for community forestry in the Gambia is globally renowned and in 2011 the Government received an award for its Forestry Policy and efforts at improving livelihoods through community forestry. However, over the last decade benefits to communities have been stalled due to a stagnation in the transfer and final approval of community forests by the Forestry Department. The reviving of the community forestry programme has been a key target for FFF in the Gambia and its stakeholders. In 2015 these efforts finally bore fruit due to a joint effort of FFF and partners the National Farmers Platform of the Gambia, the National Environmental Agency and the Department of Forestry to engage with the government on forest and farm producers issues. A total of 76 community forests amounting to 5,535 hectares were transferred to local communities by the Minister of Forestry. In 2016 the ownership of an additional 60 community forests, covering an area of 7600 hectares were due to be transferred. However, due to political instability and the resignation of the responsible Minister in December 2016 this process has been delayed. But confidence remains that this process will be completed in 2017 once the incoming Government will appoint the new Minister.

FFF partners in Gambia with whom formal agreements have been signed

NFGP - National Farmers Platform of the Gambia

DoF - Department of Forestry

NEA - National Environment Agency

AGFP- All Gambia Forest Platform

REFESA- Association of Sahelian Women

Japanteh Society

Bureng Adult Literacy

Brufut Allatentu Association

Rural Poultry Farmers Association

Aquaculture Fish Farmers Association

TAD - Tumana Association for Development

Rural Development Organization Farrafenni.

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Outcome 1. Producer groups are strengthened for policy engagement In the Gambia FFF support to apex organisations has significantly contributed to the emergence of a well-organised and integrated structure of FFPO’s from village to regional and national levels. Membership has increased as a result of trainings and improved access to markets as farmers see the direct benefits. In 2016, 15 new farmers groups became affiliated to the National Farmers Platform of the Gambia (NFPG) and National Coordinating Organization for Farmer Network (NACOFAG) and 34 new forest CBO’s to the All Gambia Forestry Platform (AGFP). In order to keep up with the growing size of the organisation members of the AGFP (37) were trained in methods of improving internal group governance, equity and gender balance. FFF also supported apex farmer organisations NACOFAG and the national Association of Food Processors to conduct their respective annual congresses, attracting more than 205 participants, so that important governance decisions could be agreed amongst the members. National exchange visits, training and market information systems are also having a positive impact on strengthening FFPOs. After a 3 day exchange visit between women’s NWFP collector groups these are now joining efforts in marketing and selling their products. In a similar case the aquaculture fish farmers association realised that they would have a stronger policy voice if they formed a federation and decided to register with the department of cooperatives so that they could lobby and advocate for their members interests more effectively. At the village level, FFF has continued to carry out awareness raising about community forestry in order to encourage communities in securing community forest rights and benefits. After a series of sensitisation workshops in Brufut village, the village development committee decided to start the process of creating a community forest out of the nearby “Subtaa” reserve. FFF supported the village in submitting a letter of interest to the Department of Forestry, which is the first step towards full ownership, and will continue to support this process in 2017.


In 2016 a total of 8 different types of trainings were delivered to producer groups across the country. These ranged from technical trainings to improve quality of production, such as processing of food and beverage (West Coast Region and Lower River Region) to introduction of new technology to reduce pressure and negative impacts on natural resources, including the construction and use of mud cooking stoves to reduce firewood consumption (55 villagers in Brufut and Jamagen villages), bush fire management (4 villages in North Bank River Region and Upper River Region) and rapid compost making to reduce cost and dependency on imported fertiliser (133 women trained in Central River Region and Brufut village). The final phases of the MA&D training was implemented with 20 Community Forestry Management Committees (CFMC) members from Kartong and Tumani

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, regional Community Forest Task Forces helped address tenure conflicts in 6 regions, supporting the advancement of an additional 60 community forest transfers (76 transferred in 2015). Trainings on the procedure of transferring community forests were carried out with 15 representatives of the Department of Forestry (DoF); a total of 30 community forest management plans were developed and are in the process of implementation, and; 32 Preliminary Community Forest Management Agreements (PCFMAs) were concluded in the North Bank Region. The revised ANR-Policy 2017-2026 is in process and all FFPO stakeholders are involved in consultations.

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Tenda. Trainings in beekeeping techniques, processing, packaging and marketing of NWFPs were delivered to 30 CFMC’s. Access to finance continues to be a challenge with limited opportunities for farmers to access credit. In order to improve FFPO’s ability to access their own sources of funding (from public or private sources) FFF carried out project proposal writing trainings with representatives from 20 FFPOs. These efforts have been complemented by continuous endeavours to advance community forestry management agreements at the national and sub-national levels- a key stepping stone towards realising community forest enterprises. These preparatory activities are likely to facilitate the process of finalising community forest management agreements (CFMA) in 2017 so that the majority of the 60 community forests that are currently in the pipeline can be transferred to local people.



The ANR platform and working groups continued to demonstrate their strength as a vehicle for linking FFPO’s with government policy and decision making. Government representatives for the Rio-Conventions provided feedback to the platform on recent negotiation outcomes, and two national Studies commissioned by FAO and UNCCD were validated by the ANR Working Group and Platform (State of the World’s Forest and the National Action Plan for Combating Desertification). Findings from the FFF mid-term evaluation were also shared at one of the platform meetings, in addition to the regular update on FFF and other FFPO relevant project activities. The ANR Policy review and draft new policy was planned for this year and a consultant was hired by the Ministry of Agriculture to carry out the task. However, this was rescheduled after a push back from the AGFP and ANR platform who argued that this should not be done by a consultant alone but through the input of members of the platforms (e.g. the farmers and NR user groups themselves). The ANR Policy review has been the main purpose and engagement of the ANR Platform and Working Group (of whom several are AGFP members) and a roadmap and procedures for the review had already been agreed between stakeholders. Skipping this process lead to some important recommendations -previously identified by the platform- being left out. A semi-final draft of the ANR policy 2017-2026 has now been developed with input from all the platform members. This was a positive outcome taking into account a long process of deliberate engagements by the FFPO’s represented in the AGFP and ANR platforms. In 2017 the FFF will be looking at supporting firewood marketing associations so that they can be better organised and integrated into the AGFP. The multi-stakeholder platform processes in the Gambia have proven to be a successful strategy for linking government policy with implementation and could be a driving vehicle for implementing the SDG’s in the Gambia.



The use of communication materials such as videos, radio news and TV programmes have proven to be an important communication channel. In addition to direct participation 50-60% of producers felt it helped improve understanding of how the government operates and in particular where two-way communication between local level constituents and apex organisations is challenging due to distances. Key communication products developed this year include the production of a short video for the State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 2016 focusing on sustainable agriculture and forest management practices in the Gambia; a 30-minute video documenting an international exchange visit where FFPO’s and government representatives from Liberia visited the Gambia.

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In addition to the exchange visit, FFF supported the organisation of a national stakeholder meeting of the African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) in the Gambia. The aim was to link Gambian women’s forest producers with REFACOF and strengthen linkages with ROPPA in the region. A map of women’s organisations active in the areas of forestry, agro -forestry, agriculture and other linked activities was carried out by REFACOF and this will be used to help strengthen alliances and the network in the region.

Lessons learned

Gender Balance and youth: Increasing women’s and youth participation remains a key challenge despite this being mentioned as a priority amongst the FFPO’s themselves. Continuous engagement and training has increased recognition of the need for women and youth not just in specific roles such as finances (e.g. cashiers) but also decision making and policy engagement, but more is needed. Multi- Stakeholder Policy Platform: Multi- Stakeholder collaboration and coordination on ANR issues through the Working Group and Platform is serving a critical role for building capacity for policy engagement and development of a network. However, it is not yet at the point of being self-sufficient and additional financial support from the government or other programmes (e.g new GEF 5 and Action Against Desertification/AAD upcoming FAO forestry projects) is still needed to ensure these achievements can be continued. Sustainable Forest Management through Community- Based Forestry: The procedure of transferring legal ownership of community forest ownership is not well known and understood by many DoF staff. Despite over 25 trainings carried out on the topic by FFF staff over the years. This is delaying the process. In order to address this challenge, both government and NGO staff should be trained on the procedures as stipulated in the Gambian Forest Management Concept (GFMC) and Forest Policy 2010- 2019. In addition, the Regional Community Forestry Task Teams that were created upon request from relevant stakeholders with support from FFF to work together with Government in facilitating the transfers needs to be further encouraged and supported. Fortunately, this has been included in the planned activities of the two up-coming Forestry Projects (AAD & GEF).

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Guatemala Country coach: Jhony Zapata; national facilitator: Ogden Rodas; M&L oversight: Anna Bolin

Background

Guatemala’s forest policies have continued to evolve since 1989. At that time, a new protected areas law established the philosophy that social and economic development should be compatible with the conservation of natural resources. In the 1990’s new forestry incentive schemes, forest concessions (community and industrial), decentralisation and a system of protected areas emerged. In the 2000s developments linked to the National Forest Program (NFP) led to the formation of a “National Alliance of Community Forestry Organizations”, which today organises 250 first level and 10 second level organisations. In 2014 prior FFF support to that alliance of 10 second level organisation and 400 member organisations allowed its 77,000 members (managing 750,000 ha of forest) to become a strong platform for engaging people in national decision making processes. In September 2015, the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala approved the PROBOSQUE Law under Decree 2-2015. FFF provided technical and legal support, and political lobbying. In 2016, the National Forestry Institute (INAB), together with the support of the FFF and the Forest Landscape Restoration Mechanism, FLRM, supported the PROBOSQUE Law regulation and conducted a series of workshops at the national level with the create awareness amongst stakeholder on the contents of the Law and its regulations. The PROBOSQUE law aims to recover the forest cover of the country and also to boost rural economies through public investments and job creation. It is envisaged that from 2017, 1% of the national budget will be made available to the forestry producers in Guatemala for 30 years. This amounts to US$20 million per year and a total of USD 667 million over 30 years. More than 80,000 direct and indirect jobs are expected to be generated per year supporting 1.5 million families (7.5 million people of whom 30% are women). This will have a direct impact on rural development in Guatemala.

FFF partners in Guatemala with whom formal agreements have been signed

ANOFCG - National Alliance of Community Forestry Organizations (the

Alianza)

ASORECH – Peasant Regional Asociation Chortí (ASORECH)

INAB – National Forest Institute

ACOFOP – Association of Forest Communities of the Petén

FEDECOVERA - Federation of Cooperatives of the Verapaces

UTZ CHE - Community Forestry Association of Guatemala Ut'z Che'

WE EFFECT -

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, FFF have been working with the Alianza to develop a members based network of SME’s. The objective of the network is to share information about topics and trainings opportunities for business development, administration, and improving production techniques. But also to facilitate linkages with other programs providing support to SMES such as INAB and the Ministry of Economy (MINECO).

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Pillar 1. Strengthening producer groups for policy engagement and business


In 2016, provided technical support to the National Alliance of Community Forestry Organizations

(the Alianza) to implement the political strategy related to different topics in the forest and farm

dialogue. Members of the Alianza currently participate in at least 15 platforms on a quarterly basis

where issues concerning natural resources governance (PROBOSQUE Law, FLEGT, Forest Landscape

Restoration), climate change (REDD+, Climate Change Act), and public finances (forest carbon rights,

PROBOSQUE and PINPEP budgets) are discussed and decisions taken. For example, members of the

Alianza provided several inputs to the PROBOSQUE regulation throughout the year. Representatives

from Alianza member organizations (FEDERAFOGUA, RENACOR, ACOFOP, ASORECH) provided crucial

input into the context and processes included in the national REDD+ strategy. The PINPEP Network,

in conjunction with the Alianza, worked together with INAB to agree on the allocation of the annual

PINPEP budget, which were facing a major back log of incentive payments to new members. In

March they presented their proposal to the Ministry of Finance who approved the amount of Q 217,

000,000.00 (USD 28 million) for the 2016 budget. This will ensure public trust and support in the

PINPEP mechanism is maintained.

Additionally with We Effect supported the documentation and systematization of 4 experiences of organization and association of producers, considered exemplary for the productive development and management of the territory and access to sustainable management of forests and farms.

The core Guatemalan pillars of FFF activity


In 2016 FFF continued to work with FEDECOVERA on the design of the curricula of the Fedecovera Rural School of Agroforestry Business. This will provide an important professional training school for up to 90 rural youth per year. Three main themes for the training models have been agreed focusing on agroforestry, entrepreneurship, and cooperative values and development. In 2017 the first pilot stages will be rolled out to test the proposed training module. One of the learnings from Guatemala is that organization around key policy issues has proven effective in Guatemala. However, the need for forming alliances around commercial and business

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interests has been identified as something FFPO’s are lacking and need. A letter of agreement was signed with second level organisation ASORECH to develop policy advocacy and business capacity of Alianza members. In 2016 ASORECH has supported the development of 4 business development plans and provided technical training and support to 7 SME’s, taking into account the needs identified in business and organisational development plans. As a result one of the SME’s has managed to access a loan from a commercial bank and two of the SME’s in the network have established new business opportunities. In a marketing event at the Business Alliance Hotel Toliman the Association of Katbalpoom managed to secure a contract with the hotel for its honey products, and Association COFFE TOUR for its coffee and traditional jewellery. A host of exchange visits were organized in 2016 to allow for experience sharing between FFPO’s. ASORECH organized a total of 6 exchange visits involving 16 organizations of the Alianza and 8 local grassroots organizations. In addition, a regional meeting of cocoa producers from Petén, Lachúa and Verapaz was organized to strengthen collaboration amongst cocoa producers in Guatemala. Mayanga women entrepreneurs from Nicaragua participated in an exchange at the FEDECOVERA rural school of agroforestry with one of FEDECOVERA’s member cooperatives. One of the outcomes of the exchange visits was the development of an internship between 4 FFPO’s (ADIPAZ, Asociación Asilvo Chancol, Asociación Cruce a la Colorada and Cooperativa Nuevo México) on the development and processing of wood products. The main objective was to provide a practical “learning by doing” experience. Participants learnt about the importance of the secondary wood processing for increasing profitability and that this can generate more employment and development than just selling round logs. In addition, a meeting was organized between groups of agroforestry producers to share their experiences in implementing their business plans developed as part of the MA&D training. A situation analysis was carried out together with the participants at the meeting to discuss the main challenges and opportunities that they had identified. The main findings of the participatory analysis was that the business plans provided a useful roadmap to guide the implementation of their business ideas. Lack of working capital and capital for Investments were highlighted as constraining factors for the actual implementation of the plans, as was lack of adequate market information. Although the MA&D training provides businesses with some of the tools and knowledge for assessing this information, these challenges still emerge. The exchange visits have also been raised as important by FFPO’s to learn more about how to address challenges. With the support of ACOFOP technical and organizational capacities of forest and farm producers in Southern Petén were strengthened. The Committee of the Ramón was helped with the organic certification of their members and with a feasibility plan for the industrial park of Ramon. Chachaklum, S.A has designed furniture prototypes and improved its financial management capacity and (10) youth were trained as carpenters.



The main focus under this pillar has been to improve the conditions for integrating forest and farm policies into other sector-related public policies and programmes. This has been done in conjunction with at least three platforms for cross-sectoral dialogues on firewood, food and nutritional security, the economy and inter-related initiatives such as FLEGT, REDD+, Land and Forest Restoration, among others. In 2016 a set of support mechanisms were established for each of the focus areas of the platforms:

Forest and the economy: FFF collaborated with INAB and MINECO to develop a Diploma of Business Development to be taught by the University of UPANA. The main targets of the training were INAB and MINECO staff that would be providing support services at business development units,

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established at the district level under the "Creation of the Business Management Services Program for Forest MSME’s in Guatemala" project (INAB-FAO-MINECO-ITTO). As a result of the diploma trainings, 5 business plans have been developed. Additionally FFF supported the design for Unit of Trade and Industry of INAB the protocol for attend the demand of services that forestry and agroforestry SMES. In the 2017 FFF will be working in the validation, adoption and capacity building for the application of this instrument. Forests and energy: a “Guide on the alternative sources and use of firewood” and the National Strategy for the Establishment of forest plantations for energy purposes in Municipal Areas to help address the challenges of unsustainable firewood production, which is a main driver of deforestation in Guatemala and supported the edition and reproduction of manual of forestry species for firewood. Forests and Food and Nutrition Security: FFF supported the development and validation of the Strategy of Forests and Food and Nutrition Security for the dry corridor of Guatemala. Finally, important efforts were also made to engage with different programme initiatives to mobilize resources for FFPO’s and FFF. A total of 8 project proposals and concept notes were developed (results were still pending in February 2017).



As part of their letter of agreement ASORECH led the preparation, design and reproduction of communication materials for the members of the Alianza and SMEs network. This included the organisation of an exchange together with Utz Che of young communication officers to promote the participation of young people and women in Alianza member’s organizations. As part of the exchange 25 community communicators were trained in photography, using basic photographic and training in techniques to enhance the experience. This was combined with a writing workshop to leaders of the Alianza to improve their capacities to communicate efficiently about outcomes of forestry political dialogues and vice versa of the development of their community-based enterprises.

Lessons learned

Local leaders needs to be adequately prepared and briefed of the context of relevant forest policy dialogues in order to interpret the main issues and participate effectively. Although participation of FFPO’s in dialogues about PROBOSQUE, PINPEP and others (REDD process, FLR) has been strong this is not the case for other related processes more attention needs to be paid to this.

It is important to take into account the relevance of gender, cultural norms and sensitivities in our activities. Despite awareness raising and efforts to increase participation of women the key decision making spaces (such as the board of the Alianza) are still mainly occupied by men. Participation of women need to be improved.

Business development support should be complemented by small grants investments in order to ensure plans can be implemented.

It's important to take in account the linking of FFF approaches with other FAO approaches and forestry sector demands.

Exchange visits have been very useful and popular among FFPO’s, especially when they focus on finding solutions to needs identified by producers beforehand.

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Kenya Country coach: Jhony Zapata; national facilitator: Philip Kisoyan; M&L oversight: Anna Bolin

Background

In Kenya the government has introduced a number of national targets to boost the national forest cover and productive wood supply. The Constitution and Vision 2030 provides a target for recovering 10% forest cover in an effort to reduce deforestation and degradation and to create a foundation for addressing the current national wood supply deficit of 12 million m³. Smallholder forest and farm producers growing trees on farms are likely to be the main actors in achieving this target. This creates an opportunity for Kenya’s FFPO’s to engage with policy processes that can lead to a better policy environment that meets their interests and needs. In order to make this happen, the FFF programme is working in partnership with the Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya (FF-SPAK), the Kenya Forest Service and We Effect to strengthen the capacity and organisation of FFPO’s.

The FFF programme was officially launched in Kenya in November 2014 and two counties (Nakuru and Laikipia) were objectively selected for piloting of FFF in Kenya. Since the start of activities significant progress has been made to strengthen FF SPAK’s membership base and its capacity to organise and provide business services to its members effectively. Important developments of relevance to FFPO’s in 2016 include the launch of the National Forest Programme (2016–2030), which is the first cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder national framework for promoting an inclusive forest sector development for the next 15 years. It builds on the constitutional values and principles of the Kenya Vision 2030, and advances forest development to 2030. In addition, the Kenya Forest Service have been actively involved in the development of a national assessment and mapping of areas for forest and landscape restoration that have the highest potential for increasing productivity and delivery of ecosystem services. These maps will help Kenya meet its Vision 2030 as well as its Bonn Challenge targets of restoring 5.1 million hectares of degraded forest ad landscapes and provides an opportunity for FFPO’s to present their role in achieving them.

FFF partners in Kenya with whom formal agreements have been signed

Farm Forestry Smallholders Producer Association of Kenya (FF-SPAK) –

Strengthening the capacities of FF-SPAK and FFPOs at national level

We Effect – Capacity building of FF-SPAK in organizational analysis and

development as well as in Village Savings and Loans (VLS) tool for smallholder

producer organizations

Kenya Forest Service (KFS) – Institutional support to catalyse national and

county level cross sectoral platforms and operationalisation of Forest

Conservation and Management Trust Fund

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, 6 products based associations were established in Nakuru and Laikipia Counties to strengthen collaboration on policy engagement and marketing. These will provide important platforms at the sub-county level for coordinating technical services and policy implementation, with linkages to county level platforms and the FF-SPAK chapters.

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In 2016 FFF facilitated FFPO’s representatives to participate in 5 key policy dialogues related to Forest and Farm Producer organisations and private tree growers in Kenya. At the county level, a key focus this year has been to support FF-SPAK members form products based associations. This was identified by FF-SPAK as an important initiative to strengthen services and policy attention to the basket of products their members produce. A total of 6 products based associations are now established in Nakuru and Laikipia Counties with a view to: jointly produce and market their products; engage both national and county governments on policy incentives to enhance production, value addition and marketing of members produce; engage with service providers. Policy meetings have been held with the county government to alert them to the establishment of these new structures. New opportunities for engaging neighborhood associations and link them to the product based associations are now also being explored as a way to foster the development of forest enterprises at the local level. A key focus this year has also been to strengthen governance and gender equity within organizations. Many of the FFPO’s do not have a system in place to ensure accountability and transparency. They also rank low in gender sensitivity despite the fact that much of the labour in smallholder farms are provided by women and the youth. In order to address this challenge FFF partners held trainings with 12 FFPO’s on how to carry out a self-assessment of governance and gender strengths and weaknesses of the organization. This helped the groups identify gaps and develop a plan of action to address them. In order to strengthen policy engagement capabilities FFF is providing on-going support to FFPO’s to develop their own statistics on number of members, current and potential productive capacity, employment opportunities and contribution to the rural economies. In a similar effort, FFF is helping FFPO’s aligning their business plans with county and national development priorities (e.g. 2030 vision of 10% tree cover, Bonn change restoration of 5.1Mha of degraded landscapes).


The final phases of the AM&D trainings were implemented with the 12 producer organisations supported by the small grants programme, leading to the development of 10 business plans that are now being implemented. Some of these groups also participated in the testing of the Risk Management Toolkit which was developed earlier this year to strengthen the resilience of enterprises. Findings highlighted the need for developing knowledge about how to manage market and climate risks and this is now being incorporated into their business plans and management activities. The same groups benefitted from additional learning experiences from the FFF exchange visits, which involved 12 exchanges between each organisation including almost 250 participants. Of

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greatest interest to participants of the exchanges was learning about marketing and financing. As a result of the exchanges 3 FFPO’s have started value addition and packaging their products; another 3 have developed brochures, banners, and online marketing to reach more buyers for their products; and after visiting a tree nursery a tree nursery group in Laikpia have started the establishment of the Laikipia Tree Nursery Association.

Access to technical services is a key challenge for FFPO’s at the county level. It is an area where FFF is concentrating its efforts to improve support. Following the devolution of extension services to county governments, most counties are yet to develop capacity to support farmers. In response, FF-SPAK have hired two extension staff to provide technical backstopping but this was still be inadequate to cover the support needs of the two pilot counties’ farmers. FFF is addressing this by partnering with 5 Service providers from both public and private sectors (KFS, County government, We Effect, Tecnoserve, Green Pot Ltd) and facilitating a combination of services from each to reach farmers at different levels. Access to finance remains a critical challenge, however, trainings in project proposal writing and MA&D has helped in overcoming some of these barriers. One of the FFF small grantees the Laikipia Livestock Marketing Association managed to secure a grant of US$ 60,000 after demonstrating their organizational management skills and business vision in a proposal.



The Kenya Forest Service is a main partner for catalysing multi-sectoral platforms and cross sector engagement. One of the main policy targets for KFS has been to support the operationalisation of the Forest Management Trust Fund. In order to fast track this activity the Director of KFS established a committee to hit the ground running. The committee developed a concrete action plan for the operationalisation of the fund and presented it to the KFS Director and board of management. This also included a list of products to be offered, and guidelines for how FFPO’s can access loans, grants and other products offered by the fund. As a result, key governance structures have now been approved by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in the forms of a Board of Trustees, a Fund Manager has been appointed, and a tender has been issued to select a service provider (bank or micro finance institution) to administer the fund. KFS also carried out a cross country assessment of the capacities of public services to support FFPO’s in Kenya. The assessment identified 10 areas as critical for FFPO support. Some of the key findings included: overall the legal framework is of relevance to FFPO’s and is not restrictive but coordinated implementation is lacking; there is commitment within KFS to support small forest enterprise development, but at the same time this is a struggle for field staff with the skills to do so; where there are important successes to build on strategies and resources to upscale are missing, which limits potential impacts; the main capacity gap that needs to be strengthened is in providing marketing services and assistance. This baseline assessment provided critical information to assist FFF in better targeting their interventions at the cross sectoral platform level and for capacity building.



Two international exchange visits were organised in 2016 involving FFPO’s, government and FFF partners from Zambia. One took place in Kenya and was hosted by the FFF Kenya team for Zambia FFPO’s. For the second visit stakeholders from Kenya and Zambia travelled together to Uganda to study new approaches in forest and farm enterprises, in collaboration with the Uganda National Forest Authority (NFA) and Uganda tree Growers Association (UTGA). The objectives of the exchange

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visit was to: i) learn about existing business models for smallholder FFPO’s; ii) exchange experiences on existing initiatives and approaches for strengthening organisations and leadership; iii) share knowledge on the enabling policy, legal and institutional arrangements existing in the two countries to facilitate effective smallholder business development. FFF also supported FF-SPAK in developing its communication strategy and creating linkages with international organizations like We Effect, AgriCord and IFFA.

Lessons learned

Governance of FFPO’s can be a challenge. While all the 12 FFPO’s supported by FFF carried out organisational and gender equity assessments, most are still in the process of implementing the recommendations for better governance. Smallholder farmers have a high potential to secure their own food security and transform rural economies, but only if they are organized as market oriented producer groups. Capacity development aimed at strengthening these capabilities should therefore be prioritised.

Building the capacity of FFPO’s in value chain approach is key. While the FFPO’s supported have started producing quality products, their volumes are still low and inconsistent to access competitive markets. FFPO’s can only access better markets if they can aggregate their products to achieve the required volumes, quality and sustained supply through seasons.

Smallholder FFPO’s require policy and institutional support to nurture and foster the growth of their business enterprises in a highly competitive and liberalised markets.

Risk management and building the resilience capacity should incorporated in all the FFPO activities. Most FFPO’s are operating with no safety nets or any form of insurance against the adverse climatic events and other natural disasters. This can be addressed by strengthening knowledge in risk management.

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Liberia Country coach: Sophie Grouwels; national facilitator: Kolly Allison; M&L: Anna Bolin

Background

Liberia emerged in 2003 from 14 years of national and regional conflict – in part fuelled by uncontrolled competition for timber. Liberia’s forests make up 40% of the remaining, endangered Upper Guinean Rainforest. The 2006 National Forestry Reform Law introduced ‘Community’ forest rights alongside ‘Conservation’ and ‘Commercial’ categories (the 3’C’s). In September 2014, an agreement was signed with the Government of Norway to end all deforestation by 2020 in return for results based investment of US$150 million. Payments to communities for protecting forests will be piloted during that period based on Community Forest Management Agreements (CFMAs). With strong formal support for community forest management and use, FFF began in 2014 by working with the Farmers Union Network (FUN) to develop forest related activities in three main counties: Lofa, Nimba and Grand Cape Mount. To complement this, the FFF also supported the Governments of Liberia through the FDA/ NFLF to better coordinate multi-stakeholder, multi-sector cooperation and dialogue. However, a major issue during 2014 was the outbreak of Ebola virus which claimed several thousand lives and curtailed forest related programmes and trade for almost a year. Work resumed in 2015 and in 2016 FFF has been working at full capacity in Liberia.




FFF partners the Farmers Union Network of Liberia (FUN) and the National Charcoal Union of Liberia (NACUL) had a very active year organising members at county and the national level to contribute to important policy dialogues. In total FUN organised 60 and NACUL 15 meetings at the national and county levels to discuss priorities for engaging in on-going legal reviews and consultations related to the Chainsaw Regulation, the Land Right Bill and the charcoal regulation. As a result of on-going efforts by FFF supported FFPO’s and civil society, the Land Authority Act was passed by the parliament, a draft Land Rights Act was further developed and is being reviewed by the house of parliament, whereas the Chain Saw and Charcoal regulations are still pending legal review by the FDA. In 2016 both FUN and NACUL are increasing their efforts to scale up their membership and impacts at the county level. FFF is supporting FUN in implementing its 2016-2020 strategic plan, which focus on supporting the development of climate resilient business models in 5 value chains (cassava, rice,

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, NACUL organised a series of trainings and exchange visits involving 5 charcoal producer groups in Grand Cape Mount county. As a result, these groups are now taking action to formally register as a group business.

FFF partners in Liberia with whom formal agreements have been signed

FUN- Farmers Union Network of Liberia

NACUL- National Charcoal Union of Liberia

FDA- Forest Development Authority

CYNP- The Community Youth Network Program

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vegetables, livestock, and small tree crops) and from community forests. Over the next 5 years FUN will concentrate on organising farmers into clusters to support farmers within the same value chain to reduce costs and achieve greater economies of scale. NACUL extended its activities to Margibi county, an area with a high concentration of charcoal producers in Liberia, which could provide an important increase in both membership and strategic policy influence. The African Women’s Network for Community management of Forests (REFACOF) started working with its members the Women Movement for Sustainable Development (WOMSUD), the Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) and partners in Liberia to promote the integration of the interests and needs of women in political and decision-making bodies related to the management of forests, farms and other activities. WOMSUD and FCI with support from FFF carried out a mapping of women groups from Grand Bassa and Bong counties to understand their specific social, cultural and political context in the target counties and identify challenges to their effective participation in governance and inclusive decision-making. Based on this information they will now developing a training package to provide information and skills to the leaders of women organizations that are engaged in forest and farm related activities.


The final phases of the MA&D training (3&4) were implemented by FUN staff at the county level, training 35 lead farmers in the development of enterprise development plans. In total 10 business plans were developed of which 3 are in the process of being implemented. Two of the business plans have managed to secure funding for implementing their plans. However, limited access to finance has been identified as a constraint for implementing plans. FUN is actively taking steps to address this issue and has managed to secure a loan from the Central Bank of Liberia (LRD 600,000) for the purpose of passing parts of this loan onto members. Farmers groups in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount County with economically viable business plans have been selected to benefit from these funds. One of the groups that were trained in MA&D, the Cultural Village and Garwoadi district women Development Association from Grand Cape Mount County, started their own village savings and small business loan scheme to address this shortcoming. This showed great initiative from one group motivated to overcome financial barriers, but this could also be a model for FFF to support and show to others who are facing similar challenges. Additional trainings in proposal writing have been provided to 10 forest and farm producers and 5 staff each from FUN and NACUL. NACUL also carried out trainings on financial management and the benefits of working as a group with 5 charcoal producer groups (20 participants) in Margibi County. Trainings were complemented by national level exchange visits between charcoal and NTFP producers. Some of the key learnings and changes that have been observed from these changes are improvements in collection and post-harvest losses, but also in terms of organisation amongst producers. FFF partners started a collaboration with Action Aid Liberia, funded by FLEGT, addressing women and community rights in forest governance and management. Under this collaboration a gender sensitive value chain analysis will be done for the charcoal and chainsaw sectors. This will be a first step towards addressing the rampant gender inequality in these and other forest-based sectors.



One of the most important platforms for FFF engagement and support in Liberia is the National Forests and Landscape Forum (NFLF). This is a cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder platform convened by the National NFLF Coordinator from the Forestry Development Authority at the national level, but with a second level of organisation at the county level in the form of County Forest Forums. In every

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National level meeting, at least three County Forest Forum members are represented at a time. The objective of the platform is to improve the knowledge, coordination and consultation among forests and landscape management sectors. In 2016 the NFLF developed a Strategic Roadmap for 2017-2020. The roadmap will support the work of the platform addressing issues of tenure rights, land use planning gaps and overlaps that has led to conflict in the past between concessionaires and the communities. One of the main focus areas of the platform is the Forests and landscape Management Policy and consultations and dialogues are on-going in synergy with other natural resource management related policy processes, such as the VGGT, FLEGT and REDD+.



The Community Youth Network Program (CYNP) has been leading the development of the FFF communication strategy in Liberia. During the year CYNP conducted a baseline survey on communication means of POs -focused on forestry issues- in the three pilot counties. Further they organised a workshop including partners FUN, FAO, FDA, Charcoal Union and other key stakeholders to jointly develop a draft communication strategy. This was later validated by stakeholders in a second workshop at the FAO Liberia office. Success stories collected by FFF partners from FFPO have also been shared at meetings with the VGGT program, UN REDD+, and at the Rethinking the Liberia Forest Conference. In 2016 FFPO representatives participated in two international exchange visits to Sierra Leone and the Gambia. The first visit to Sierra Leone was organised by the VGGT and included 5 FFF partners as well as 17 members from civil society and 10 representatives from the government. The objective of the visit was to discuss land tenure and how to involve local communities and indigenous peoples in governance processes. The second visit to the Gambia was organised by FFF and focused on exchanging learning of the structure and governance of the Agriculture and Natural Resource (ANR) Platform in the Gambia. There were 11 participants from Liberia in the exchange and overall feedback was very positive with learnings about how to structure multi-tiered platforms and their governance, of particular relevance to the NFLF in Liberia.

Lessons learned

Some of the main highlights and lessons learnt this year have been the effectiveness of the exchange visits in terms of sharing knowledge and motivating producers to adopt new techniques or become better organized.

Encouraging youth and women’s equal participation through communication activities and village savings and loans programmes could help improve participation of these groups but also provide good results. As has been the case this year with CYNP and the Cultural Village and Garwoadi district women Development Association in Grand Cape Mount County. Other planned gender focused work on value chains and community forestry rights and governance will deepen the effectiveness of the FFF work.

The inter sectorial coordination and collaboration at the county level is providing good results in terms of policy engagement and will need to be supported further.

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Myanmar Country coach: Jhony Zapata; national facilitator: Aung Thant Zin; M&L oversight: Anna Bolin

Background

Myanmar’s forests cover 47% of the land area but control over them has until recently rested with the Military Government, Forest Department, Myanmar Timber Enterprise and ‘Crony companies’. In 1995 Community Forestry Instructions (CFI) for the first time allowed community forest rights. Since then, total of 837 community forest user groups have formed (up to the end of 2016 with total area of 87,853.07 hectares). Now, with the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy, and revised CFI that grant full commercial rights over forests to community FUGs, there may be a rapid shift in how the forest landscape in Myanmar is controlled. With a peace agreement the stated priority of the new Government, control over and benefits from the countries geographically extensive forests are likely to come sharply into focus. Economic opportunities that local forest-farm producer organisations can develop are likely to play an important role in any peace dividend. FFF launched its activities in Myanmar in 2013. Following work in 2014 to help 6 NGOs support the establishment and strengthening of smallholder producer organisations and businesses, in 2015 the ambition was to build on that foundation by catalysing township and State level associations of community forest user groups, built around business interests – and support a revision of the CFI to grant those community groups full commercial rights. In 2016, the Southern Rakhine Community Forest Products Producers Association (CFPPA) was finally formed and FFF support to the Community Forest National Working Group (CFNWG) started in January the same year.

FFF partners in Myanmar with whom formal agreements have been signed in 2016

MERN- Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-conservation Network

AYO- Ar Yone Oo

FOW- Friends of Wildlife Ceramic Society

SVS- Social Vision Services

MCS- Myanmar Ceramic Society

ECCDI- Ecosystem Conservation and Community Development Initiative

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In 2016 the number of community forest user groups that joined existing CFPPA’s or formed new ones at township level were significantly scaled up. In total 10 new CFPPA’s were formed at the township level in Southern Shan (5), Southern Rakhine (2), Chin (2), and Ayeyarwady States(1) states and 2 new sub-regional level producer associations were formed in Southern Shan and Southern Rakhine States. Producers were approaching CFPPA’s from within and outside the FFF intervention areas to take up membership in CFPPA’s receiving support from FFF partners. It is anticipated that a national level federation will be formed soon to support the growing number of CFPPA’s and to secure a seat at the Community Forest National Working Group (CFNWG) and related platforms at the national level. A total 316 meetings were recorded at village, township and sub-regional levels. These meetings were mainly focused on the set up of management and governance organisational structures of recently formed organisation, but also to discuss members interests related to production and access to markets. For many of the producers the motivation for joining CFPPA’s is strongly related to the need to secure tenure rights, which they feel are threatened by other land developments such as land being bought up by hotel developers. Security of land and resource access is seen as an important way to improve livelihood opportunities. And being part of a CFPPA is seen as a way to achieve this and ensuring the sustainable management of resources and access to benefits such as markets for forest products.


The organisation of producers into CFPPA’s has made it much easier to deliver trainings and services for business development purposes. And this is also increasingly being recognised by the government who see the CFPPA model as a more efficient and cost-effective way to sustainable manage forest resources. Each of the community forest user groups have a management plan for the community forest area, including plans for harvesting. Many of the groups have also carried out market assessments and are expressing business ideas for different products such as coffee, bamboo and rattan. No groups have as of yet developed a formal business plan. Nevertheless FFF partners have managed to help groups make connections with buyers. For example, ECCDI with the Myanmar Timber Merchant Association for the supply of rattan, bamboo and elephant foot yam products. FOW accompanied CFPPA groups to Yangoon to make better connections with whole sale buyers. And there are other opportunities being explored by RCA with a company managing a chain of hotels and SVS with a fish whole sale buyer. In the case of the Myanmar Timber Merchant Association, its sub-committee for Bamboo and Rattan was initially engaged as a service provider to help groups improve technical quality, but then also agreed to buy products meeting their required standards. Approaching potential buyers that could also have the potential to provide technical services could be a model for improving producer’s participation in value chains. Access to finance is an issue, but some groups are addressing this by establishing their own systems for saving and generating capital. For example, by setting up revolving funds through membership fees, or by deducting a percentage from group sales. One group have set up a fund for community

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, FFF supported the review- process of the Community Forestry Instructions (CFI, 1995) which consisted of substantial involvement of FFPO’s. Based on a series of consultations the CFI was updated and approved.

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development priorities, while another to give out loans with interest to finance business ideas for the group. After a national exchange organised by MERN together with the Central Cooperative Society the latter expressed willingness to support CFPPA’s register as cooperatives to improve access to finance. For now only one group have decided to try this and already registered as cooperative group. But overall a necessary step to improve credibility towards financial institutions will be to develop detailed business plans that can then be used to demonstrate the economic viability of enterprises. Within the framework of FFF’s capacity building and learning program the FFF team in cooperation with the Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-Conservation Network (MERN) in Yangon and the Myanmar Forestry Department organized a one-week training course on “Sustainable Timber Production and Value Chain Creation” for 44 persons from different institutions, educational backgrounds and regions (Rakhine, Shan, Chin states) in Myanmar. This was supported by FAO’s Planted Forests Officer and has become part of the regular training programme in Myanmar.



At the national level FFF is focusing support and engagement with the government through the Community Forest National Working Group (CFNWG). The CFNWG is a multi-sectoral policy platform, led by the Forestry Department and comprised of representatives from relevant line Ministries, CSOs and private sector. Currently FFPO’s do not have any direct representation at the platform. However, the Forestry Department is encouraging for this to change in particular once a national federation of CFPPA’s has been formed. One of the main activities this year of the CFNWG was to finalise the revision of the Community Forest Instruction (CFI, 1995). FFF supported the process and in total 8 regional and one national consultation workshop was carried out to generate input for the review. As a result, the CFI was updated with substantial input from FFPO’s themselves. The updated CFI will provide important policy support to FFPO’s. In September 2016, FFF also supported the formation of the Community Forest Practitioners Network-CFPN. In total 150 participants attended of which about a third were forest and farm producers, mostly from CFUGs. In the CFPN formation workshop, a National Coordinating Body for the CFPN has been formed with 52 members of which 30 are from CFUG. The next step will be to prepare the TORs and to completely form the CFPN. The formation of the CFNWG and the CFPN demonstrate a more enabling policy environment for community forestry and tenure security in Myanmar. The process of applying for a community forest Certificate application is reported to have become quicker compared to the situation before the CFNWG become active in June 2014. However, in order to maintain progress this also needs to be backed up by institutional support in the form of law enforcement, coordination and cooperation from other government and development institutions to ensure tenure security.



In December 2016 a total of 8 participants (4 Forestry Department officers, 3 producers and 1 FFF Assistant Facilitator) from Myanmar participated in regional exchange workshop and field exchange visit to Thailand, organised by the International Family Farming Alliance (IFFA), the Asian Farmers Association, FFF and RECOFTC. This was a regional event and FFPO’s from two other FFF countries participated (Nepal and Vietnam). The exchange was seen as important by participants for giving exposure to new business ideas, policy regulation, and technical management. It highlighted the

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need for reform of forest policies to be more supportive of timber production and processing by local communities. In February 2016, the Asia Pacific Forest Week held in the Philippines provided another opportunity for learning exchanges in the region. The FFF supported participation by representatives from the CFNWG, FFPO’s, the Forest Department and FFF Facilitator. Meetings were organised between FFF, the FAO and We Effect to discuss shared policy related issues and challenges for joint collaborations.

Lessons learned

Continuous support efforts to strengthen the organisational capacities of FFPO’s and targeted business support is starting to bear fruit in Myanmar; spaces for both policy and business engagement are increasingly opening up. Updates to legal frameworks of relevance to FFPO’s need to include conditions that will enable the process of transcending from the subsistence level to a commercial enterprise. Exchange events involving both government stakeholders and FFPO representatives are an opportunity not just for shared learning but also building relationships, better understanding of each other, and opening up opportunities for following up new learnings at home.

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Nepal Country coach: Sophie Grouwels; national facilitator: Racchya Shah; M&L oversight: Duncan Macqueen

Background

In Nepal, the FFF is working with two umbrella FFPOs, the Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN) and Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries (FNCSI) which together include more than one-third of the total population (8.5 million of 27 million people). Since the mid 1990s, organizations such as FECOFUN have been lobbying for community forest user rights. Today, almost one-third (1.7 million hectares) of the country’s total forest area is under the control of local communities. Work is still needed however, to improve the enabling environment for local forest and farm businesses so that rights can be turned into economic opportunities. In 2016, FFF support for preparatory meetings and advocacy have made advances in this area as described below, as has direct support to FFPO business groups.




In 2016, FFF strongly facilitated policy network meetings at the district level. Policy barriers were identified, documented and addressed by the FFPOs in each district and major issues were forwarded to the national level cross sectoral platform. More than 40 district and national FFPOs representatives (a majority of which were from FECOFUN village, district and national chapters) were integrated in this process.

FFF partners in Nepal with whom formal agreements have been signed

Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal – for organizing forest and farm

producer organizations and stakeholders at the national and subnational levels

and lobbying on key policy priorities related to the CFUGs.

Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries – for business development

and engagement with service providers and government to support business

opportunities for forest and farm producer organizations.

Five small grant holders:

- Farmer Group Federation (Belautedada and Manpgang VDC - Ginger

and broom grass)

- Adhar Ekata Mahila Sanstha (CFUGs in Kavre - Cardamom, Vegetables

and broom grass)

- AFFON (Bharbhanjyang and Bhanu VDC – Amriso/broom grass)

- Green Foundation Nepal (Manakamana Gadi, Piple Pokhara and Niureni

CFUGs - Wooden Handicrafts)

- Pashupati Kailashpuri CFUGs (Bio-briquette charcoal)

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Capacity development for effective advocacy and leadership was a key role played by FFF in-country facilitators to support FFPOs to bring forward the issues at district level. National level training on advocacy and leadership development is replicated by the trainees in 4 different Village Development Committees of both districts.

Outcome 2. Producers are organized for business

In 2016 FFF continued to support 26 producer groups in Kavre and Nawalparisi districts (based primarily around NTFPs such a rope and grass products, vegetables, livestock, bamboo products, charcoal briquettes. A peer to peer exchange visit amongst Terai CFUGs succeeded in showcasing different forest development, good governance and livelihood enhancement good cases to producer groups of Kavre. As an example of follow-on adoption, one Kavre CFUG, Bishashaya, decided to plant bamboos of different species to make handicraft and to make briquette from forest biomass based on what they had seen. Similarly community forest governance practices of Nawalparasi were adopted by producer groups of Kavre. Dhaneshor Baikiwa and Balkumari CFUGs of Kavre also reorganized their planning and implementation, with a committee formed with higher number of women representation and in decision making positions such as Vice chairperson and treasurer. A communication forum (loose forum) in FFF programme pilot districts was formed and activities related to forest and farms were broadcasted and disseminated through FM Radio and news Newspapers. Capacities of existing enterprises were enhanced through training and application of the Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) tools to strengthen the business culture to the smallholder producer groups. In total all 26 producer groups assessed their existing situation and developed business plans for their enterprises. Activities of FFF has been extended to two additional districts, in addition to the previously three programme implementation districts.

Pillar 2. Catalysing multisectoral policy platforms

Outcome 3. Cross-sectoral policy coordination for sustainable forest and farm management

FFF continued in 2016 to provide support and mentoring to the FFPOs in organizing as well as facilitating national and district-level cross sectoral platform meetings. In the organization of the third and fourth national level cross-sectoral platform meetings which were conducted in

Government cross-sectoral platform

(Pillar 2)

Consortium of producer

organizations (Pillar 1)

District level

District Development Committee (DFO, ADO...)

Respective line agencies

National level

Facilitation by IUCN Nepal

Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (Secretary) Chair

MoAD, MoF, MoWCSW, MoFALD, civil society, private

sector

Policy advocacy

lead FECOFUN

HIMAWANTI, RDN, CoLARP, Forest Action, GACF, DANAR, ASMITA

Nepal, NEFIN, NFGF ,etc. Kavre, Nawalparasi, Makwanpur, Tanahun,

Chtiwan

(FNCSI, FECOFUN, NFGF,CPAD, GGN, DANAR)

Business development

lead FNCSI

Cooperatives, ANSAB, Himalayan Resources,

GGN, CPAD, etc.

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Kathmandu in 2016, the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MoFSC), IUCN and FECOFUN as well as FNCSI worked together in preparation of agendas. Agendas responded to policy issues raised by FFPOs in their area. In each FFF district the cross sectoral meetings were organised and were facilitated by the FFPOs themselves, although further rapport building with the government agencies is needed to give them confidence in taking on that role. One major issue that emerged from this process was the complicated process associated with transportation of forest products. Through FFF dialogues a national policy advocacy process was catalysed, as a result of which progressive review of provisions in forestry sector guidelines has been made such as provision of free transport of 23 timber species and 15 NTFPs (13 MAPs).


Outcome 4. National and global agendas are informed by the priorities of local producers, and vice versa

FFF supported FFPOs to undertake a field based peer-to-peer learning exchanges between representatives from FFPOs, and members of cross sectoral platforms described above. FFF then supported representatives from FECOFUN, FNCSI and NFGF to participate within a regional Knowledge Forum on “Promoting rights and livelihoods of small holder enterprises” in Bangkok Thailand, hosted by RECOFTC and organised by the International Family Forestry Alliance (IFFA) and the Asian Farmers Association (AFA) with support from FFF. Nepal representatives provided an overview of current status and challenges in Nepal. FFFOs, especially FECOFUN is integrating lessons from global policies (learned from CoP-21) and mechanism on their on-going projects and programmes which is used as “advocacy information” during policy discourses. This has been further developed through FFF-supported participation of FFPO representatives in:

The European Development Days with AgriCord in Brussels, Belgium.

The Asia Pacific Forestry Week in the Philippines.

The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22).

FECOFUN delegated its communication focal person in the regional training in Bangkok for developing a Communication for Development strategy. At the national level FECOFUN actively engaged with the Ministry of Forests related to policy formulation during (a) the preparation of Nepal’s REDD strategy (b) Churia conservation planning and (c) PES policy formulation. At-least two members represented FECOFUN, of which one is female took part. In addition, at national level, FNCSI, actively worked with the cottage and small scale development board on small enterprise issues. At the district level, FECOFUN was newly represented on the District Forest Committee, and in integrated planning of the District Development Committee. At the district level, FNCSI represented in the work of the District Enterprise Development Committee. At national level FFF supported and co-organised an Agroforestry Seminar entitled “Agroforestry: Potential livelihood option for the future” in collaboration with IUFRO, the Institute of Forestry (Agriculture and Forestry University, Hetauda) and the Nepal Agroforestry Foundation. The seminar was organised to share and reflect upon research and practices in agroforestry and its contribution to the local livelihoods.

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Lessons learned

Savings and credit facilities are an important attractant for active FFPO membership participation and needs further consideration in FFF. Nevertheless, representatives of FFPOs reflected that the “Market analysis and Development” (MA&D) tools have been very effective in increasing their business knowledge and associated skill of marketing. According to them, this has helped to prioritize and select products which have high market potential. Increasing business awareness has also led 17 of the 26 FFPOs in Kavre and Nawalparasi to gain confidence in accessing more service provision. For example, groups who were approaching the agro-vets for the technical advice, are now approaching the DADO for technical advice and visiting the agro-vets to buy medicines recommended by them. This has increased their production capacity as well. The preparation of business plans by FFPOs has increased the interest of cooperatives in investing in these businesses and 20 of 26 FFPOs in Kavre and Nawalparasi districts felt their access to finance has improved. Exchange visits play an important role in improving or changing business practice as evidenced by several cases (e.g. cardamom case of Ilam district which was then adopted and upscaled in Kavre District, Dhaneswhor CF). In addition with the support of FFF such FFPOs have started raising the issues and concerns of smallholder producers in district and national level fora, such as improving access to the market and improving access to the services, problem associated with registration of the enterprises etc. District level engagement in policy processes often has very practical outcomes – for example, through District level discussions and through the office of the Village Development Committee in Rupauliya, land was provided to the Srijana Babiyoa Rope Committee so they were able to build low cost structures for their business.

Nicaragua Country coach: Jhony Zapata; national facilitator: Leonardo Chavez; M&L oversight: Duncan Macqueen

Background

Nicaragua is the second-poorest economy in Latin America, but it contains one of the largest intact tropical forests north of the Amazon (3.2 million hectares), much of it falling in the Rosita

FFF partners in Nicaragua with whom formal agreements have been signed

National Forest Institute – to lead on implementation of FFF activities across

the three pillars through Letter of Agreement (LoA)

Additionally following FFPOs were supported without formal LoAs:

Cooperative de Artesanas Los Mayaring Sak R.L (MAYARING)

COOPERATIVA ARTESANAL INDÍGENA KUYUSBIN WASAKIN (COOAIKUWA)

Cooperative LA RAMPLA

Cooperative COOAMUSAJUB (MADRIGUERA)

REAMAT

MYRAP

YAKALSAK

COMTABS

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, peer-to-peer exchanges hosted by FFPOs in the Nawalparasi region led to changes in the planned commercial activities of FFPOs in Kavre – who adopted bamboo planting and bio-briquette making, while also changing their community forest governance structures to include more women members.

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Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Coast (RACCN) and the Bosawas Protected Area, which alone covers 2 million hectares. By 2005 the Nicaraguan government had taken the progressive step of awarding common property titles to the Mayangna and Miskito peoples in that region. In Nicaragua, the FFF is working mainly with women’s producer groups – the Mestiza’s producer groups and the Mayangna indigenous women. Because from 2015 all technical cooperation has to be channelled through the Government, the National Forest Institute (INAFOR) has been selected as the main delivery partner, and FAO Nicaragua will now work with INAFOR to implement FFF activities.




In terms of policy engagement, there is now a strong relationship between the National Forest Institute (INAFOR) and the Ministry of Economy Family, Community, Cooperative and Associative (Spanish MEFCCA). Together they coordinate activities in order to strengthen the knowledge about associativity and governance of the forest community enterprises and Mayangna women's organizations. In addition, MEFCCA provided technical assistance to those organizations to help them process and update legal documents and bring inputs to facilitate better ways to become a formal cooperative and pursue their businesses. In 2016, FFF contributed to strengthening four Forestry Community Enterprises MAYARING actually the Cooperative de Artesanas Los Mayaring Sak R.L (MAYARING); EMAIKUA, LA RAMPLA and MADRIGUERA which they were identified by INAFOR. The close coordination with MEFCCA allowed an ongoing dialogue with each small forestry enterprise in order to review the legal issues and policy barriers that they faced. Tailored support has been given through FFF to those groups. For example, the Mayangna Women Organization MAYARING which produces Tuno craft was provided with MEFCCA support an updated certification of the Cooperativa de Artesanas Los Mayaring Sak R.L from Bonanza Sakalwas, Sauni As territory. As a result new members the cooperative expanded to a total of 21 members. Similar processes have been carried out for the Forestry Community Enterprises EMAIKUA, which is now called the COOPERATIVA ARTESANAL INDÍGENA KUYUSBIN WASAKIN (COOAIKUWA). The Forestry Community Enterprises LA RAMPLA, and the Forestry Community Enterprises COOAMUSAJUB (Madriguera) have strengthened their organizational structure. As next step they will prepare business plans.


An organizational diagnosis tool was introduced by INAFOR and used by those business groups to assess strengths and weaknesses for each forest community enterprise from Bonanza, Sakalwas; Rosita, Wasakin; Siuna, Sikilta; Puerto Cabezas y Waspam where around 150 people participated (88 women and 62 men). Through such diagnoses forest community enterprises gained a better understanding of their priorities for the year ahead. In addition, the process informed INAFOR about how their own public policies impact those organizations. Improvement plans were developed by some of the businesses which will contribute to helping them develop activities in a short and mid- term. Two national exchanges were facilitated including (i) craftspeople from Masaya Monimbo and Wasakin Rosita exchanging experiences on designed bamboo furniture in Wasakin, Rosita, and Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Cost. As a result, craftswomen created seven new small products for sale like ashtrays, holders of wine, flowerpots, etc. They learned new production techniques such as how to use the tissue of bamboo. Another result from this training was a manual

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of bamboo focused on furniture and tissue of bamboo called SUKU; (ii) Mayangna women representatives of five organizations REAMAT, MYRAP, YAKALSAK, MAYARING and CONTABS from the territories of Sauni Bas, Sikilta and Sauni As, undertook an exchange in tuno (handicraft) to improve product quality and generate new designs. New techniques were learned such as: sewing pattern, dress-making, stencil technologies, and combining cloth with tuno. They created 17 products with improved and new styles. FFF has supported the preparation of the Mayangna Women Book (Mayangna Yal), which shows their culture and different activities. FFF has also supported the participation of indigenous producer women national trade fairs. These events gave the opportunity to women producers to sell their products and build new business linkages. Management and basic accounting training was run for 45 forest and farm producers, representatives of 18 forest community enterprise from different municipalities such as: Waspan, Puerto Cabezas, Siuna, Rosita and Bonanza in the Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Cost. (Spanish RACCN) and Tik Tik Cannu, Orinoco from the Autonomous Region of the South Caribbean Cost (Spanish RACCS), alongside some from New Segovia, León and Chinandega municipalities. The course was delivered by BICU's University in Bluefield and the URACCAN in Siuna municipalities and the UNA University in Managua. The main impact was to improve the capacities of the producers in accountability and administration issue.



The Regional Autonomous Government of the North Caribbean Coast, together with the Autonomous System of Production, Service and Trade of the North Caribbean Cost (Spanish SAPCC) have developed a new strategy with FFF support. This is focused on strengthening the capacity of a related Government structure, the Secretary of Production (Spanish SEPROD), to respond to requests and demands from forest and farm producers in the miner triangle (Bonanza, Siuna and Rosita municipalities – the focal area for FFF work). Through this, SEPROD has started to engage with and monitor cooperatives, initially in Bonanza, and provide support – for example, providing 60 sewing machines to local women’s business groups. FFF has also ensured that INAFOR, MEFCCA and SEPROD, regularly attend meetings of Mayagna women and also the others forest community enterprises in Bonanza, Siuna and Rosita municipalities. FFF has supported the institutional capacity development of INAFOR with its new vision focused on forest regeneration. Capacity development for territorial staff of INAFOR was facilitated through fifty four technicians of INAFOR who support the implementation of Nicaragua’s Community Forestry Strategy participating in a University training led by BICU in Bluefield, URACCAN in Siuna and the UNA in Managua. Training modules included: Agroforestry Systems (cocoa and other mixed plantings); Strategic planning for forest management; Evaluation of forest plantations; and technical reports for follow-up and evaluation. Subsequently, INAFOR implemented 11 training workshops for FFPOs on how to engage in forest regeneration in different departments of the country such as Estelí, Jalapa, Macuelizo, Murra, Belen, Villa Sandino, Santa Lucia, Bluefields, New Guinea, Laguna de Perlas and San Carlos attended by 178 men and 111 women producers. FFF also supported INAFOR to build a Strategy of Forest Incentives focused to small and medium producers – the first stage of which involved a report synthesizing national experiences of past attempts in this area (Chile, Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica). And as part of its ‘National Campaign of Reforestation’ INAFOR was also supported to review the main Nicaraguan instruments for reforestation, identify ways to overcome constraints (such as how to register and claim incentives for on-farm tree planting) and update procedures and incentive values for both tree nurseries and plantation establishment. New projects for wood energy planting in the dry forests of

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León and Chinandega, and reforestation around Estelí, Madriz and New Segovia will offer support to FFPOs.



Two international peer-to-peer exchanges were facilitated in 2016 with the support of FFF. The first was a regional exchange which took Nicaraguan producers to the Rural Business School Agroforestry of FEDECOVERA (itself a forest and farm producers cooperative. Four training topics included: a). FFPO Governance; b) Financial management; c) Business management and d) Engagement and political participation of the organizations. From Nicaragua three representatives of small forest enterprise (ADEPRPOFOCA, MAYARING and RAMPLA) took part alongside representatives of INAFOR, SEPROD, and the Autonomous regional government of the North Caribbean Cost (Spanish RACCN). On seeing many useful ideas for locally controlled forest businesses the idea emerged of facilitating an exchange between Indigenous Women Q'eqchi Alta Verapaz, Guatemala and Mayangnas women from Nicaragua to strengthen market capacities. As a result a second exchange took place with Mayangna women of five organizations (MAYARING, MYRAP, IYAMSAK, REAMAT and COMTABS) from Nicaragua visiting three cooperatives (Sanimtaca, Chicoj and Chirrepeco) which are members to FEDECOVERA. Transfer of experience of the Q'Eqchi women to the Mayangna´s about organizational capacity, production, marketing, leadership was felt to be very useful. Improvement plans for each Mayangna women's organization were developed.

Lessons learned

The fluid communication with the authorities of the government institution has been the key for the implementation of many activities linked to FFPOs. South-South cooperation between Nicaragua and Guatemala has also been very useful. It was the key for the planning process for developing Nicaragua’s Community Forestry Programme and has informed members of the National Forest Committee (CONAFOR) generating many ideas for the work plan for 2016. Exchanges also provided many new ideas and experiences to empower the Mayangna women organization in improving the style and quality of their product of tuno. Updating legal documentation for the FFPO businesses of communities and Mayanga women’s organization was also key in terms of supporting those organization to flourish through FFF support.

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, close collaboration between Government agencies such as INAFOR, MECCFA and SEROD and women FFPOs, including in organisational diagnoses, peer-to-peer exchanges, trainings and policy development is leading to new tenure security, incentive programmes, and product designs with, Mayangna and other FFPO businesses.

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Viet Nam Country coach: Sophie Grouwels; national facilitator: Vu Le Y Voan and assistant facilitator: Pham Tai Thang

Background

As of 2014, forest cover in Viet Nam was above 14 million hectares, 3.4 million hectares of which were under the control of more than 1.4 million smallholders. Almost 50 percent of these households, however, have only 1 hectare of forest, and they cannot obtain high incomes from the forest products produced on such small areas. Organization among farmers is vital for achieving economic scale. In April 2014, the Viet Nam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) approached the FFF, and Viet Nam duly became an FFF partner country. FFF country structure in Viet Nam




Across the two project sites of Yen Bai and Bac Kan FFF facilitated 9 FFPOs to undertake 17 policy planning meetings. These then fed into representation at 13 roundtable discussion at commune level, 3 round table discussion groups at district level and 2 round table discussions provincial level. In addition, 4 focus group discussion were organized. The objectives of the round table discussions were to: review the challenges and discuss solutions for forest growers within the communes, at the same time making proposals to higher level in cases where the district is not competent to resolve; assess the status of FFPOs in the project sites; discuss the status of agro-forestry land use and the social-economic development programs are ongoing of the commune, district, province.

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A total of 11 policies and issues were reviewed and/or proposed by FFPOs and the VNFU at different levels. These were diverse but included issues to do with: Forest protection policies, production forest development policies, loans for agroforestry, forest certification, forest harvesting and profitability, public extension policy, market support, tax in timber harvesting, organic cinnamon production and forestry road building investments (see below).


During 2016, FFF implementation in Vietnam conducted numerous activities to strengthen of forest and farm producers organizations (FFPOs). These have included: arranging meetings with specialists/consultants in forestry, timber and non-timbers sector markets to get advice and help for contacts and introduction, organising contacts and visits buyers and companies/processors, exchange visits, a trade fair, research on market information (providing studies), linking FFPOs to forestry processing companies and discussing contracts/ purchase agreements. All of this work has resulted in clear improvement from the FFPOs both in terms of how they understand business – and the returns they receive from it. For example, FFPOs in Bac Kan and Yen Bai now realize the benefit of group work, get more market information, share investment among member for processing for better value from the forest, find more companies and traders, and receive better prices. By the end of 2016, 9 FFPOs have been supported by FFF, including 159

FFF partners at central and local levels

Vietnam Farmers Union at the national and district levels – for business

development work with local forest and farm producer groups, policy

roundtables to improve the enabling environment, and exchange visits, training

and small grants. (formal agreement) FFPOs (collective groups) supported through FFF Vietnam:

United cinnamon group (Mr. Tue), in Dao Thinh commune, Tran Yen district, Yen

Bai province, with 35 household members (8 female and 27 female).

Lem Acacia/ timber processing group in Phu Thinh commune, Yen Binh district,

Yen Bai province (Mr. Hai) with 18 household members, of which 7 female.

Hop Thinh Forest production and business collective group (Mrs. Hang) in Phu

Thinh commune, Yen Binh district, Yen Bai province, with 12 household

members, 8 are female and 4 is male.

Dong Tam acacia group, Phu Thinh commune, Yen Binh district, Yen Bai

province, with 17 household members and 110 ha of acacia.

Khuoi Coong Magnolia growing combine chicken group (Mr. Vinh) in Chu Huong

commune, Ba Be district, Bac Kan province, with 14 household members, 4 of

them are female.

May Phay forest development (Magnolia) group (Mr. Thong) in Chu Huong

commune, Ba Be district, Bac Kan province, with 19 household members, of

which 8 are female.

Na Ngom forest and tea development group in Chu Huong commune, Ba Be

district, Bac Kan province. The group has 48 ha of forest and tea, with 10

household members.

Timber (Magnolia) growing group (Mr. Ta), in My Phuong commune, Ba Be

district, Bac Kan province. 8 household member, of which 5 female and 3 male.

Star Anise group (Mr. Huynh), with 9 members, 8 male and 1 female.

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households – all registered as ‘collective groups’ (see Box above). In Yen Binh district, after visiting promising models and receiving trainings, the Farmers Union supported a group of 494 households with FSC CoC certification (1738 ha of acacia). This effort is meant to increase by 10-15% the price for the timber of their plantations. The support from FFF in business training has helped to increase incomes across the range of FFPOs’ members from 3 to 12% compared with the year before. Local facilitators and VNFU staff (who backstop these business efforts) have improved their capacity and skills on: organizational development, communication, policy advocacy, market access and service provision to members, so that they can support better their target FFPOs and collaborate closer with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders.



Coordination and dialogue across sectors within government at all levels and the contribution of multi-stakeholders are vital to help FFPOs overcome challenges. Through the activities of FFF, the local authorities, Government officers, and other relevant partners understand the importance of FFPOs in socio-economic development. The challenges and solutions to support FFPOs in production and business are being brought out and discussed in different levels (from commune to district, provincial and national levels). Based on problems of FFPOs determined by roundtable discussions at provincial level, at national level, FFF-VNFU made a study on the impacts of the policies on production, business and FFPOs and organized a National Workshop on the same topic. In terms of results achieved, 10 points of progress were made within the round table platforms described above and each reflects producer organization presence: (i) Enhanced communication on forestry development policies for farmers; (ii) the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources agreed to speed up the forest land use certificates delivering (in both Yen Bai and Bac Kan); (iii) the Trade and Industry Department now guides the FFPOs to register product design process, product packaging; introduces FFPOs products at the fair trade, and supports the purchase of new machinery and equipment (supported by 50% of the machinery value not exceed 200 million VND) (in both Yen Bai and Bac Kan); (iv) the Forestry Department in Yen Bai province promised to support maintaining FSC certificates in Yen Binh district and develop organic cinnamon in Dao Thinh commune (v) the Yen Bai Provincial People’s Committee issued the Degree No 1481/QĐ-UBND date 22/7/2016 on approval cinnamon development program in the period of 2016-2020 (support 1-3 million VND per ha); (vi) there was progress in creating favourable conditions for FFPOs to access loans under Decree 55/2015 / ND-CP dated 09/6/2015 of the Government on credit policy for agriculture development in rural areas. The loan cycle 7 ~ 10 years for the forest producers should be taken in to account; (vii) the Provincial People’s Committee, Agriculture and Rural Development Department now pay much more attention to building policies on sustainable forestry cooperatives group models; (viii) a timber processing license was given to May Phay group by approval of Ba Be district People’s Committee and Planning and finance sub Department; (ix) some 4.5 km of forest road were built with support of local authorities/Commune People’s Committee; and (x) VNFU sent proposals to VN Forest to make comments and adjustments to Chapter VI and some others articles of draft version of Law on Forest Protection and Development.

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During 2016, FFF in Vietnam successfully developed a communication strategy and activity plan. VNFU leadership set up and maintain a database of pilot sites of FFPOs in Yen Bai/Bac Kan in Excel software. The VNFU-FFF facilitator and Yen Bai FU leader participated in Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016 in Philippines and an additional workshop entitled “Knowledge Exchange Forum on Promoting Rights and Livelihoods through Forest and Farm Producer Associations” in Bangkok, Thailand. FFF Vietnam also hosted an FAO video making mission on State of the World Forests (SOFO) to Viet Nam. Considerable efforts have been made to take international learning back to the local level. For example, FFF helped develop a plan to strengthen the campaign to raise the quality and quantity of agriculture and forestry collectives for hunger alleviation and poverty reduction by Mr. Hoang Huu Do, Chairman of Yen Bai FU. They also are planning to build a tree-bank in Yen Bai province supported by Mr. Kieu Tu Giang, Vice director of Yen Bai Forest Ranger Department and Mr. Nguyen Duc Lam, Director of the Coop member supporting Centre, as a result of the Thailand workshop. As a result of various international learnings, the team is organising a chain of custody system to buy and process FSC timber of forest growers in Yen Binh district overseen by Ms. Dao Thi Tam, Yen Binh district FU Chairwomen in Yen Bai province and Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hai, leader of Lem acacia group in Phu Thinh commune, Yen Binh district, Yen Bai province. Additionally Mr. Tong Quang Sau, Tran Yen district FU Chairman in Yen Bai province is planning organic cinnamon production and business in Tran Yen district. Mr. Pham Xuan Giao, Deputy leader of Cinnamon group in Dao Thinh commune, Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province convinced Dao Thinh cinnamon FFPOs members to apply organic fertilizer and organic cinnamon production. This is replicated elsewhere with Mr. Luu Van Quang, Chairman of Bac Kan FU, Ms. Hoang Thi Mai, Deputy head of May Phay group in Chu Huong commune, Ba Be, Bac Kan, Mr. Hoang Van Huynh, Head of Thach Ngoa star anise group, pursuing similar plans.

Lessons learned

While challenges remain in convincing farmers at local level to work together in groups, the successes so far in timber production, sustainable forestry certification, timber processing, cinnamon and star anise production and processing testify to the efficacy of FFPO collective action. Sharing of information is clearly vital, both between farmer groups and with Government authorities and support agencies at all levels. Nested roundtable discussions in which FFPO representatives voice their challenges at commune, district, provincial and national levels have proven effective in identifying and then implementing solutions to those challenges. The facilitation of such work by an apex level body such as the Viet Nam Farmers Union (VNFU) has enabled brokered discussions between producers and Government. Preparatory work to identify and align FFPO demands with existing Government policies has proved productive. Confidence of FFPO representatives to voice their concerns takes time to be build, which emphasises the need for iterative processes. Shared exchange visits play an important role in building understanding. Improving the capacity of VNFU, Government and FFPO staff to understand workable approaches to value chain development,

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, at least 10 policy rulings in favour of FFPOs at commune, district and national level followed roundtable discussions, which drew on emerging FFPO business successes in Acacia and Magnolia timber, cinnamon and star anise value chains. .

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especially in Forestry, is an ongoing priority – so as to meet the needs of ongoing business coaching. Information databases on FFPOs and information resources such as training manuals, newsletters etc. are an important ingredient in such capacity development. There is also a need to improve access to finance and extend the cycle of loan repayments to fit with forestry business requirements.

Zambia Country coach: Sophie Grouwels; national facilitator: Vincent Ziba; M&L: Duncan Macqueen

Background

Zambia has among the highest forest cover in Africa estimated at 49.9 million hectares (66 percent of the land area). However, Zambia’s forest resources are declining at a steady rate, due mainly to agricultural expansion and charcoal production. The latter is feeding increasing demand from Zambia’s large urban population, which, in the midst of an energy crisis, is turning to charcoal to meet household energy needs. Until recently, part of the problem has been a lack of incentives in Zambia’s legal framework to involve local people in the management and benefit-sharing of Zambia’s vast forest resources. After many years of deliberation and review, a new Forest Act was approved in 2015, bringing hope for both community forest management and forest and farm producers. FFF started work in Zambia in 2015 in Choma District in the Southern Province and Mwinilunga District in the North Western Province.




A total of ten charcoal producer groups were formed around the area of Choma. Following a meeting in the Choma council, the approval of all the counsellors was given to the formation of a District Charcoal Association.

The process benefitted from the development of a draft set of rules for the process of forming a charcoal association that had emerged from the previous year’s exchange visit with Kenya. During this year the FFF has been supporting the development of a statutory instrument on charcoal regulation – to turn these draft rules into legal text.

FFF partners with whom formal agreements have been signed

Zambia National Farmers Union – apex organization for strengthening the

organization of forest and farm producers for both policy engagement and

business. (This was suspended mid-year because of concerns raised by an

external audit and since closed.)

Zambia Forestry Department – for increasing the participation of forest and

farm producers in district-level and provincial-level government platforms and

policy review processes.

Choma District Forest office – Tree nursery support in Choma

Kalonda Agroforestry and Beekeeping (Choma) – Honey bulking

Mboole Rural Development Initiative (Choma)– Tree nursery and carpentry

Chibwika Chiefdom Development Trust (Mwinilunga)– Honey bulking

Kanyama Cooperative (Mwinilunga) – Timber and other NWFP

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Further work to consolidate FFPOs has been occurring in Mwinilunga, where the honey producers have been organised around 23 information centres for honey production. The Mwinilunga District Farmers Association organized all of those information centers (IC) to hold a general assembly. The objective is to form an executive committee relating to honey production within the Mwinilunga District Farmers Association and mobilise membership locally. And beyond these specific product groupings, FFF at national level, initially supported the Forest Commodity Committee of ZNFU to transform into a specialized independent National Forest Commodity Association (NFCA). For this FFF supported a viability study which was discussed in a multi-stakeholder meeting. The report concluded that such an autonomous association should need at least a one year incubation period – under the wings of a caretaker institution - to ensure all governance and management systems are in place. The urge for an independent forest -small holder- association grow even more when an external audit of ZNFU. This resulted in the immediate cessation of all external donor funding streams – including the Letter of Agreement between FFF/FAO and ZNFU. FFF is identifying a suitable interim caretaker institution to help incubate the NCFA.


Through the Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) trainings 20 groups were trained in business development. Some of these groups have now gone on to improve the way they do business and engage with higher value markets for their products. For example, the Tubeleke women’s club met 5 times for MA&D trainings and then organised a bulking centre for handmade baskets which has been established in Siachitema. Women who were working and marketing their products as individuals within the community are now working in a group and reducing cost of business transactions in Choma and negotiating for better prices. Another example includes the Kalonda beekeeping and Agroforestry Association which met 5 times for planning out their proposal for a small grant. They then went on to use the grant to establish a honey bulking centre based on what they learned in the MA&D training. In some cases FFPOs looked beyond FFF for further funding. For example Mboole Rural Development Initiative had more than 5 meetings following a proposal

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writing training supported by FFF. They went on to make an application for the establishment of a tree nursery to provide seedlings for woodlots establishment. While the proposal was submitted to FFF it was also tabled to the GEF small grants programme. Some of these groups are already seeing market benefits from their work. For example, the Women in Mwinilunga who participated in the MA&D trainings began to see the profits available from selling thatched grass products and are mobilising themselves to work as a group and target a solid market in Solwezi. FFF has been encouraging producers to think beyond their traditional products and a peer-to-peer exchange was organised for the Mwinilumga producer groups to visit the District Charcoal Association in Choma. The purpose was to help the groups learn from the successful process in group mobilisation for charcoal, and how to form an association. In 2016, a total of 5 business plans have been developed by local community producer organisations with support from FFF in Choma and Mwinilunga.



The Kenya exchange visit in 2015 for Zambian charcoal and tree nursery producers has led to the formation of the National Tree Nursery Committee to be affiliated to the National Forest Commodity committee initiated under ZNFU. This Nursery committee is in the process of registering their own association. One of the challenges of FFF structure in Zambia is that because the main partnership began with a big farmers APEX organisation (ZNFU) which had many policy agendas and priorities and this resulted initially in delayed progress in strengthening smallholder forest group platforms. However, this 100 year old apex organisation was initially seen to provide a good space for policy dialogue and for interacting with its large membership. The external audit which brought to light very serious concerns about misappropriation of funds was a dramatic development which required a rapid response from FFF. This was handled through an immediate suspension of the LoA – which of course also resulted in a slow down in some very important activities. At the moment policy consultation with smallholder producers is done through the Ward Development Committees (WDCs) in Choma, which were supported by FFF, and FU information centers (ICs) in Mwinilunga. It is hard to reach people – but now the Ward Development Committees in Choma contain 3 representatives of forest and farm producers in key positions. It has been proven much more effective to work from the lower level platforms to the national level when supporting smallholder groups.



Last year, the Zambian participation in the African Farm Forest Conference (organised by IFFA with support from FFF) led to appreciation of the Kenya Charcoal Regulation framework by members of the Government of Zambia. This resulted in 2016 in the Government reviewing the charcoal regulation framework and drafting the Charcoal Statutory Instrument that will promote the formation of legalised charcoal associations. The use of community radio stations and online media is helping spread the news of FFF works among the

Key highlight, 2016

In 2016, work with the Choma district council led to the formalization of a new District Charcoal Association run by local producers – which will soon be supported by a ‘Charcoal Statutory Instrument’ to put the new charcoal association process on a legal footing – and encourage moves towards sustainable supply.

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producers and other key stakeholders at the national level. In addition, progress at international level of the FAO/We-Effect Partnership agreement has been translated on the ground into an FAO-FFF/We Effect partnership in Zambia that resulted effectively in supporting capacity development of smallholder producer groups in proposal writing.

Lessons learned

Opportunities exist for enhanced small businesses based on forest and agriculture products. The provision of small grants for business development has proved an effective catalyst in giving confidence to producers to operate as a group business. Recognition of charcoal production as a viable business has been a major step forward in Zambia and formal recognition will, it is hoped, lead to access more funding for improvement and collaboration of charcoal producers with the Forest department for sustainable charcoal production. In the past, most charcoal producers were frightened of being arrested as there were no simple options to be legal. By focusing on particular sectors, in this case charcoal, the FFF programme has brought dialogue between the Forest department and the charcoal producers and achieved a useful outcome. In order for producers to represent themselves, there is some need for support from traditional authority figures at local level, as it is not customary to represent issues without being in a customary leadership position. Rights based training might be a solution if sensitively done. Supporting FFPOs, no matter how large with ongoing governance, transparency and financial management training and encouraging periodic independent reviews and external audits, particularly when funding is involved has clearly emerged as an important lesson.

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3. Active Small Grants during 2016 Small grants continue to be a very important component of FFF’s support. As in the past the focus of the small grants is primarily to support smaller, more local or (sub-national) FFPOs establish their enterprises or improve their businesses. The idea is to link these to the larger APEX FFPOs and the MA & D training programs wherever possible to ensure that there is back up to help them achieve their objectives. While modalities differ from country to country the small grant selection process is done with and by FFPO partners and efforts are made to direct these towards women’s groups and start-up enterprises. To address the relatively low capacity of many of these groups, trainings are given in proposal development to help with the initial accessing of funding – using one of the tools in the Tool Kit for Strengthening Forest and Farm Producer Organizations. In some countries these small grant recipients have become showcases for local government and models for other enterprises to learn from. Some have been able to leverage additional funding. Efforts are being made to link these small grants to larger efforts (such as the Forest Conservation and Management Fund in Kenya) to set up credit for small businesses – to create a blended finance stream that provides some subsidy to pave the way to full credit. What has become clear in the process is that additional support and ongoing capacity building need to accompany many of the small grants to support them with make their enterprises viable, even after good business plans have been developed and to support their ability to manage risks and report accurately and correctly. Building this capacity in Apex FFPOs is an ongoing effort – using the small grants can help focus attention on this aspect of service delivery. Small grants have been given in all of the countries except Nicaragua – where funding needs to go through government agencies. Because of the nature of the funding cycle a number of small grants given at the end of 2015 remained active through the early part of 2016. In Annexe 2 there is a table showing the grants which were active in 2016, identifying separately those made in 2015 (38) and those in 2016 (32) for a totally of 70 small grants, most of these directly to FFPOS. Approximately USD 318,000 went to the 32 small grants in 2016. All small grants are listed on the full table of contracts issued in 2016.

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4. Learning Exchanges as South – South Cooperation in 2016

Exchange visits were implemented successfully at the regional level and also within the countries and they have consolidated as a strong component of the FFF operations in support of FFPOs. Exchange visits play a significant role in strengthening and building relationships between diverse stakeholders needed to establish effective multi-stakeholder platforms and processes that include representatives of FFPOs as key actors, beneficiaries, partners and decision-makers. Exchange visits facilitate stakeholders to connect, create a common vision, develop and implement joint activities. The exchange visits also enable participants from the countries to compare policy and institutional arrangements implemented by their respective national governments to create enabling environment for forestry based enterprises. Empirical evidence show that producers often prefer seeing good experiences, participating with and discussing these with their peers rather than simply hearing about a topic. The exchange visits have given concrete learning opportunities to forest and farm producers to experience first-hand real situation and to do things, which result in higher learning. As result of the learning through exchange visits FFF has prepared a new publication on “How to facilitate successful exchanges of experiences among producer organizations: A practitioner’s guide” as part of its tool kit. It has already been field tested in a number of countries and regional exchanges in 2016 and used broadly in FFF countries and also other non FF countries. The challenge is that while the exchange visits were successful, there is still great potential to explore how these experiences can be better amplified and feed into national and regional dialogues to influence policy making processes.

Between countries Learning exchanges were implemented in Latin America, Africa and Asia with positive results at short and mid-term. Representatives of FFPO and government of the FFF ten countries and also other non-FFF countries participated in these events.

Between Latin American countries

Eight Latin American countries meet in FEDECOVERA, Guatemala

In Latin America 50 representatives of producer organizations and governments from 8 countries Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Ecuador and Panama participated in the exchange of learnings held in the Federation of Cooperatives of Las Verapaces (FEDECOVERA). The event was organized by FFF in partnership with the Mesoamerican Alliance for Forest and People, We Effect, FEDECOVERA, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BECIE) and IUCN. The participants shared experiences of successful organizational models that producer organizations have adopted with productive, entrepreneurial and commercial purposes in forestry and agroforestry value-chains and in particular coffee, cacao and cardamom. They also shared and discussed public policies and strategies that can strengthen producer organisations in accessing markets, contributing to rural development and building the climate resilience capacities of producers. As a product of the event, a document was published on “Modelos Organizativos Exitosos para la Integración de Pequeños Productores, Mujeres, Pueblos Indígenas y Jóvenes, en las cadenas de valor forestales y agro-forestales - Experiencias exitosas y propuesta metodológica para realizar intercambios”. It

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contains recommendations to strengthening producer organizations, to facilitate the learning process and 19 successful cases, documented by the producer organizations themselves.

Producer organizations of Indigenous Mayangna women exchange visit to Guatemala

Mayangna women of five organizations from Nicaragua, MAYARING, MYRAP, IYAMSAK, REAMAT and COMTABS, visited in September 2016 three cooperatives members of FEDECOVERA, Sanimtaca, Chicoj and Chirrepeco, to exchange learning and experiences with the objective of strengthening their organizational capacities and ability to access markets. During the event the 34 participants (i) visited the cooperatives Sanimtaca, Chicoj and Chirrepeco, (ii) participated in the training on “women empowerment” provided by the Centre of capacity building for small and medium enterprises PROMIPYME hosted by FEDECOVERA, and (iii) prepared their own improvement plan for their organization. As a result of the exchange the Q'eqchi indigenous women transferred experiences and knowledges to the Mayangna women about organizational capacity, production, marketing, leadership. Improvement plans for each Mayangna women's organization were developed.

Between African countries

Zambia to Kenya

Zambian representatives of the ZNFU Forest Commodity Committee, Mwinilunga DFA, Choma Charcoal producers Association, Choma District Farmers Association and Forest department visited Kenya in June, 2016 with the objective to share knowledge and strengthen their capacities to improve charcoal and tree nursery value chains. During the visit the Zambian participants met government at national level and in Nakuru county and exchanged experiences with Nakuru tree nurseries association, Baringo charcoal producers association, Elburgon charcoal briquetting enterprise and Kakazu enterprise. As result of the exchange visit the Zambian participants (i) understood the benefits of forming charcoal associations for smallholder producers for business and policy dialogue, (ii) got good ideas for improving forest extension services in charcoal and tree nursery value chains and for business development in charcoal and tree nurseries value chains. Some next steps agreed by the Zambian participants as result of the exchange visit were (i) discuss opportunities for establishment of tree nursery association under the umbrella of National Forest Commodity association, (ii) support smallholder charcoal producers for registration of the charcoal association, and (iii) organise a national charcoal meeting with participations of relevant policy makers, including government and producers to upon the Zambian Charcoal regulation.

Kenya to Uganda

An exchange of knowledge and experiences between Kenya and Uganda forest and farm smallholder producer organizations and supporting agencies was held in June, 2016. The objective was (i) to learn about existing business models involving smallholder farm forestry, (ii) to learn and exchange experiences on existing initiatives for strengthening POs delivered by apex organisations and government and (iii) to exchange knowledge on the enabling policy, legal and institutional arrangements existing in the two countries for facilitating effective business by smallholders. Participants in the exchange included 40 representatives from 12 Forest and Farm producer organizations in Kenya, representatives from Apex organizations Farm Forestry Smallholder Producer Association of Kenya (FF–SPAK), National Alliance of Community Forest Associations (NACOFA), Kenya National Federation of Farmers (KENAFF) and Kenya Tree Growers Association (KETGA), officials from the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) at national and county level and We Effect Kenya and Uganda. The main learnings included better awareness of enabling policy and institutional frameworks in supporingt forest and farm enterprises; organisational and governance structures for producer organizations; cloning technologies for quality planting materials and wood sawing technology.

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As result of the exchange of experiences and interactive discussions, Kenya participants got good ideas from the progress made by various stakeholders to create an enabling environment for farm and forestry enterprises. Participants discussed and agreed on the following actions to undertake when they returned to Kenya: (i) adoption of smallholder farm planning with a mixture of crops and livestock enterprises, (ii) strengthening of multi-sectoral platforms for their forest and farm producer organizations, (iii) promotion of efficient timber sawing techniques with high recovery rate such as Wood-Mizer, (iv) promote certified tree nurseries to ensure high quality timber products, (v) advocacy for incentives for tree farmers, (vi) introducing community based monitors with the example of the mobile based application used in Uganda.

Liberia to the Gambia

Twenty four representatives of smallholder and community-based forest and farm producer organizations and government representatives from Liberia and the Gambia participated in an exchange of knowledge and experiences through field visits and discussions. This event took place in the Gambia in October 2016. The Gambia has achieved remarkable success stories in the area of sustainable forest resource management through the empowerment of communities to own and manage both forest plantations and natural forests known as community forests. The cross sectoral multisectoral ANR platform is an example of how FFPOs can contribute in policy discussions and support implementation. The umbrella FFPO, The National Farmers Platform of the Gambia (NFPG) has developed strong integration and partnerships with other leading associations and platforms including the All Gambia Forestry Platform, Livestock Owners Association, Aquiculture Fish Farmers Associations, Rice Farmers Associations, Federation of Cashew Farmers, National Beekeepers Association, Horticultural Associations and women’s entrepreneurs. During field visit participants had the opportunity to meet and exchange with several community forestry and forest and farm producer and processing organizations, among them beekeepers groups, rice and fish farmers and a women’s poultry association. One particular highlight of the field trip was the visit to Tumani Tenda. This small community is actively engaged in community forestry and successfully established an ecotourism camp whose profits are directly benefiting the community, for example the construction of a primary school. The learnings of the field visit lead to the formulation of concrete recommendations and action plans for both countries participating organizations on internal management, business ideas and participation in policy processes with a special focus on inclusion of women and youth.

Between Asian countries

Exchange visit of forest and farm producers from Nepal, Myanmar and Vietnam to Thailand

Representatives of producer organizations and government from Nepal, Myanmar and Vietnam participated in the exchange visit in Bangkok, Thailand in December, 2016. They visited the Khao Chakan Agroforest Community Enterprise (KCAE) site for teak and mixed forest plantation, organic fertilizer production, charcoal and wood vinegar production, milling, seedling nursery and gardening services. Producers’ representatives as well government officials were motivated with the exchange of ideas and techniques. The benefit sharing mechanism inspired all participants of the three countries. In the case of participants from Vietnam, producers mentioned they would replicate the organic fertilizer technique in their home countries. Yen Bai District Officer mentioned he intended to organize consultations on agroforestry techniques with experts and local communities. Participants from Myanmar appreciated how the community enterprise was organized. They mentioned they will plan to organize trainings on enterprise development. The delegation also mentioned that these topics should be integrated in the upcoming revision of rules and regulations related to CFUG. Participants from Nepal, NFRG wanted to organize a meeting to transfer knowledge on the techniques learnt.

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Back to back to the exchange visit was a regional event in Bangkok entitled: “A knowledge Exchange Forum on Promoting Rights and Livelihoods of Family Farmers in Forests and Forested Landscapes”. The event was co-organized by FFF together with the International Family Forestry Alliance, with the Asian Farmers Association for sustainable rural development (AFA) and RECOFTC. Around 75 representatives from forest and farm producer organizations and government from Mongolia, Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, Laos and Thailand participated. This is described in the next section on Regional and Global activities. Noteworthy in the context of this discussion, participants visited an FFPO member-based organization called the Tree Bank. The Tree Bank encourages planting a minimum of three species for four uses market and livelihood, consumption and food, fodder and fuel wood. The first branch of Tree Bank was established in Chumporn Province in 2007 and has spread nationwide with more than 3,000 branches and more than 300,000 members. An advantage of Tree Bank is that it manages a database that assigns values and documents living trees on farms and other small plots. Currently, farmers can already benefit from loans from the Governmental Agricultural Bank using the trees as collateral. Tree Bank is trying to go further by lobbying for a new law in which the Government would have to provide 5% of the value of the trees to the farmers during the 10 first years of the trees as incentive to keep them in the ground. There was significant interest by visiting countries in replicating this approach.

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5. Core trainings In some countries (Nicaragua, Kenya, Myanmar) a self-assessment tool for Producer

Organizations has been piloted which aims to provide an understanding of the major

strengths and needs of POs in terms of functional and technical capacities. The self-

assessment helps FFPOs to identify their priority needs and choose the most adequate

means to support their capacity development process. In the case of Nicaragua the self-

assessment was done by five Mayangna women producer organizations the during the

exchange visit to Q’eqchi indigenous women of Guatemala. They also prepared the

improvement plan for their organizations. In Myanmar the training was delivered during the

national exchange visit organized together with the Central Cooperative Society (CCS). The

Community Forest Product Producer Associations (CFPPA) participating have prepared their

improvement plans. In Kenya, the training was delivered together with We Effect to the

FFPOs of Nakuru and Laikipia. This training will be delivered in the future by the FFPO

producer association, FF-SAPK. During 2017 the self-assessment tool will be refined so that it

can be used in other countries to help FFPOs define clearly their strengths and weaknesses

on issues related to governance, gender, business capacity and access to markets.

In Myanmar and the Gambia trainings were organized based on the CoOpequity tool, called

‘Strengthening governance and gender equality in producer organizations’. In Myanmar the

training was delivered during the national exchange organized together with central

cooperative Center (CCS). The plan is that this training will be delivered in the future by

MERN. This training response to the difficulties many POs are experiencing due to their

internal governance and management weaknesses, lack of communication, negotiation and

leadership skills. Furthermore, women and youth often have difficulty accessing the services,

opportunities and benefits provided by POs, and participating in decision-making processes.

In Zambia, Vietnam, Liberia, Kenya and the Gambia trainings in proposal writing skills were

held for forest and farm producer organizations. These training sessions are focused on the

process and end-product of project design and aim to provide FFPOS with practical guidance

on how to draft project proposals. This trainings have been instrumental for the selection of

the best proposals for small grants in many of the countries. In Kenya, the proposal writing

training was delivered by We Effect together with Farm Forestry Smallholder Producer

Association (FFSPAK). In the future FFSPAK will delivered the training to their member as part

of the service provided. A concrete and unexpected result In Kenya, because of the good new

skills of proposal writing Laikipia Livestock Marketing Association (LLMA) received additional

grant from the African Wildlife Foundation for the construction of a slaughter house.

The Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) trainings continued in many countries.

After finalizing the regional ToT MA&D trainings in 2015, in most of the countries the

(sub)national MA&D trainings culminated in Enterprise Development Plans for FFPOs with

their respective work plans which have been followed up with different trainings, fairs,

exchanges, depending the context of the countries. Special mention is that in Guatemala the

MA&D training will be included in the curriculum of the Rural School of Agro-forestry

Business of the Federation of Cooperatives of Verapaces, Guatemala (FEDECOVERA).

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The risk management self-assessment tool for locally controlled forest businesses was used

in Kenya and Bolivia. This toolkit was developed by the Forest Connect alliance, of which FFF

is part, and draws on the MA&D tool but also can be used as a stand-alone guide. The results

of the testing of the tool in the different countries served as inputs in the discussions during

the 5th Forest Connect Workshop in Quito and will be used for the final revision of the tool.

Gender awareness raising was done in several ways:

In country: Mapping of Women organizations in Liberia and the Gambia through

the African Women’s Network for Community management of Forest (REFACOF).

Globally: FFF developed questionnaires to understand the gender constraints of

women to participated in the management of apex FFPOs, the access and benefits

of women members to FFPOS and the gender sensitivity of the FFF Facilitators;

At HQ level: A training was given by an FAO gender expert during the 2016 retreat

to FFF staff and facilitators in Gender equality and Equity.

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6. Global and regional programme progress

Within the FFF Management Team, IUCN oversaw the global and regional programme of work to strengthen five global/regional apex organization: the International Family Forestry Alliance (IFFA), the Global Alliance for Community Forestry (GACF), the Asian Farmers Association (AFA), the Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB), the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest (IAITPTF). Following a competitive call for proposals, an inception meeting with regional and global partners took place on January 29-30, 2015 at the IUCN headquarters in Switzerland where synergies and areas for collaboration were discussed The highlights of FFF’s activities end 2015 and during 2016 include strong presence of all the partners in policy processes such as the Asia Pacific Forestry Week (APFW 2016), UNFCCC COP21 in Paris and COP22 in Marrakesh, UNFF, 5th ASEAN SFN and CBD COP13 in Cancun. A big achievement of FFF is to contribute to the growth of a worldwide collaboration between different right holders groups, such as community forests, indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers and family forest owners. The third highlight is that FFF has improved its regional presence in Africa and commitment to gender issues by working with REFACOF.

International environmental policy forums

At international policy level, the Mesoamerican Alliance has been an active in the UNFCCC climate change discussions, by effectively organising communication campaigns about the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples. Powerful campaign such as the If Not Us then Who and the “Paddle to Paris” events are some of the more recent examples. In addition to raising awareness and defending the rights of Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica, AMPB is making concrete recommendations fair distribution of climate finance. AMPB has been very active in CBD COP13 with their key slogan “Do you know who protects biodiversity of our forests?”. The importance of Indigenous Peoples is increasingly being recognized even though there are still many efforts needed to make for real integration of their rights and issues in international policy. In a recent initiative, the AMPB is calling for the creation of a Mesoamerican Territorial Fund (MTF) to finance adaptation and mitigation to climate change, defending the protection of forests as an important mean to mitigate climate change. Through the MTF AMPB is also advocating for (climate) finance to be channelled directly to local custodians of the forests. They plan for the MTF to be a mechanism based on: recognition and application of the rights of indigenous peoples, following FPIC guidelines; territorial alliances willing to collaborate for environmental and development objectives; sound monitoring systems; and open to proposals from different stakeholders contributing to sustainable management of targeted territories (IP and community organizations, NGOs, local governments, public-private partnerships, etc.).

Forest and farm right-holders groups’ movement

FFF partners are increasingly joining forces with like-minded associations to move towards a very strong grassroots global movement thanks to the scale of their constituency among other things. Upon FFF’s impetus, the Asian Farmers Association (AFA) formed a coalition with the Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and NTFP Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) to lobby decision makers for the rights of indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers and forest-based communities at the Asia Pacific Forestry Week (APFW). One of the key outcomes of the coalition was the development of a common declaration, showing that the different right holders had similar issues and demands for their national and regional policy makers.

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In a similar move, AMPB has built a strategic alliance with AMAN, COICA and REPALEF and is now also approaching GACF. Their aim is to demonstrate that local farmers, forest communities and indigenous people of different nationalities, and despite at times conflicting interests, face similar issues and are ready to join force to improve their situation. The strategic alliance also has as a mandate to carry out research on carbon stocks in tropical forests of indigenous territories. Finally, the International Family Forestry Alliance continues to collaborate with the Three Right Holders Group and has worked very closely with the Asian Farmers Association to organize the “Asia Exchange Forum on Promoting Rights and Livelihoods through Forest and Farm Producer Organizations”.

Asia Exchange Forum on Securing Rights and Livelihoods through FFPOs

With welcoming remarks from a representative from the Thai Royal Forest Service, this exchange forum hosted around 70 participants in Bangkok early December 2016. Participants included local government representatives and producer organisations from Mongolia, Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, Laos and Thailand. These included organisations focusing on a mix of agriculture ( e.g the Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTCF), the National Association of Mongolian Agricultural Cooperative (NAMAC)) and forestry sectors (e.g. FECOFUN and the Tree Bank Cooperative and the Vietnam Farmers’ Union(VNFU)). This dynamic event, building on similar Africa and Latin America meetings for FFPOs was organized by IFFA. The aim of the conference was to facilitate networking between existing associations and provide them a platform to build their capacity by sharing experience. IFFA in close collaboration with AFA facilitated the learning platform for smallholders working in the Asia-Pacific region to exchange experiences and lessons on smallholder enterprises and activities. Participants shared their knowledge and raised questions on topics including securing land tenure, accessing markets, and coordinating with multiple stakeholders at national level with some focus on regional policy as well. The meeting concluded with the adoption of a common strategy including engagement of FFPOs present to expand their networks, ensure inclusion of youth, women and indigenous peoples in their work and promoting trees as an asset with a broad spectra of forest products.

Working with women FFPOs in Africa

REFACOF, the latest addition to FFF’s apex partners has implemented exciting activities in Liberia, Gambia and Cameroon. To begin with REFACOF has identified women association working in forest management or agriculture in the three countries. In addition to the mapping, REFACOF has analysed strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities of these FFPOs by interviewing them and running a survey to key governmental agencies working with the women groups. The database is still being consolidated but forms a strong basis to know where and how to strengthen women FFPOs in Western Africa and motivate them to join forces and associate themselves in apex organizations. The second highlight of REFACOF’s work was to organize training on female leadership to improve their capacity to defend women’s interest. The training was building on some of the weaknesses and challenges identified during the mapping exercise. As a result, the women realized the value of associating themselves in a platform was a good way forward to strengthen their organizations. And they now feel in a better situation to advocate for their rights and influence their national policies to better access products and services they need. This work will be followed up by further training in Liberia and Gambia as well as concrete plans for creating women platforms in the three countries.

Challenges

The main challenge for FFF regional/global work is to strengthen the synergies with the country level activities. However the situation has very much improved in the last year. Asia Knowledge Exchange Forum had representatives of all the FFF country partners in Asia. REFACOF, AFA and AMPB have all been involved in discussions with FFF partners and/or facilitators in their regions. For the next phase

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of FFF, the synergies could be planned earlier on by ensuring that collaborative activities are included in work plans. However it is important to keep flexibility and there will not always be collaboration as apex organizations have their own pre-existing mandates and governance structures.

Lessons learnt

Communication channels linking producer organisations to global processes exist but language differences constitutes a barrier. More funds could be channelled to translate all necessary documents (technical, policy reports, etc) and towards simultaneous translation during policy events. Two way communication could also be improved through more online communication, but without removing the importance of face-to-face meetings: “But farmers learn best by seeing and doing, so there should be increased farmer –to-farmer learning exchanges / site visits especially if we want to promote various systems and practices on sustainable forest and farm management” (AFA 2016). Translations of documents and use of interpreters should always be budgeted for to ensure farmers active participation. Given the long time frame of policy processes, budgets should also be allocated specifically for activities after attendance to policy events to apply lessons learned and plans identified during the regional/global events. This should then be followed up by a new learning process to share learning on application of the lessons learned. AFA provides interesting learnings for other regional and global organisations. They regularly organise regional knowledge sharing and learning sessions, where members share their experiences, challenges and opportunities as well as lessons and insights. This type of information sharing has helped them learn, innovate further and strengthen cooperation and solidarity among themselves. This is also an opportunity where they are able to establish and expand partners and contacts that can be of help in the future. AFA conducts learning exchange visits and field trips as a strategy for knowledge-experiential sharing where the host organization can share best practices while visiting organizations learn from their experiences where they can practice or further innovate/improve of existing initiatives. In the last APFW regional conference, the representatives of producer organizations learned a lot since this was the first time AFA has engaged at the regional level in the forest sector with the government representatives. Representatives were able to discuss personally with the official government representatives of their country and learned from different presentations from resource persons and partners.

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7. Communications The FFF communications strategy is articulated around the three FFF pillars and has three objectives:

1) To amplify the core message of forest and farm producer organizations and multi-sectoral platforms. 2) To strengthen the local capacity of forest and farm producer organizations. 3) To share learning among partners.

To amplify the core message of forest and farm producer organizations and multisectoral platforms

This year, messages on the crucial role of the FFPOs were widely shared, and in particular during three major events. Communications activities were planned well in advance in order to launch key publications at the events, and to have a better outreach. Linkages with FAO Forestry Department have been strengthened and this resulted in a stronger strategy for 2016 and the publication of two important web stories on the FAO Home page in 2016.

Forest and Farm Producer Organisations: Operating Systems for the SDGs

FFF webpage associated: http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/91934/en/ During the European Development Days (EDD) organised by the European Commission in Brussels, FFF, AgriCord and IFFA under the topic Trade, Growth and Sustainable Development organized a Project Lab event on 16 June, during which the joint FFF, AgriCord and IFFA publication “Forest and Farm Producer Organisations: Operating Systems for the SDGs“ has been launched. The publication looks at a range of examples from around the globe that show how a variety of such organizations are succeeding in helping rural communities strengthen their own livelihoods and food security. Through service-provision to their members, such FFPOs make solid contributions towards the SDGs, bringing benefits not only to their members but to people and the planet at large. The publication urges support for building up capacities and appropriate investment to release this potential at large scale. Key messages of the publications were widely shared through the following: An FAO webstory

(http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/418854/icode/) and an IUCN webstory (https://www.iucn.org/news/forest-and-farm-producer-organisations-show-%E2%80%9Cstrength-numbers%E2%80%9D) were published.

A video interview of Jeff Campbell was done and posted on the FAO Forestry Department Twitter account (https://twitter.com/FAOForestry/status/743433895278870530).

An article of Jeff Campbell “Forest and Farm Producer Organizations: An Operating System for the Sustainable Development Goals” was published on the IISD, SDG Knowledge Hub: http://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/forest-and-farm-producer-organizations-an-operating-system-for-the-sustainable-development-goals/?rdr=nr.iisd.org

In addition, the work of the FFF as a multi country programme was mentioned in an important FAO publications: Food and Agriculture, Key to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5499e.pdf). The FFF example shows how: “Empowered forest and farm producers are key to achieving many of the SDGs.”

http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/91934/en/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/418854/icode/

https://www.iucn.org/news/forest-and-farm-producer-organisations-show-%E2%80%9Cstrength-numbers%E2%80%9D

https://www.iucn.org/news/forest-and-farm-producer-organisations-show-%E2%80%9Cstrength-numbers%E2%80%9D

https://twitter.com/FAOForestry/status/743433895278870530

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Unfinished agendas for forests and climate change

FFF webpage associated: http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/92008/en/ The second major event of the year was organised by FFF and FAO during the 23rd session of the Committee on Forestry, at a World Forest Week event at FAO, HQ in July. FAO Forestry Department Assistant-Director General René Castro Salazar warned that the issue of indigenous rights to land and territories was ‘critical' for the success of climate change initiatives. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, said at the event that very few countries have so far made a clear commitment to a requirement in the Paris Climate Change Agreement that countries undertaking climate change activities should ensure the rights of indigenous peoples. In an outcome statement issued at the close of the event, participants urged governments to provide the enabling conditions required for local communities, indigenous peoples and local producers - with special focus on women and youth - to manage larger territories, from securing and enforcing tenure rights to creating favorable business incentives and offering technical, financial and business extension services.

The Statement “Let’s not forget the forest people and communities” was

distributed during the Week and published on the FFF website: An Infographic “Local Communities, Indigenous Peoples, Smallholders

and their Organizations: the Enabling Actors to Address Climate Change” was launched at the event : http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ee98bf56-c6ae-49f3-8721-8327f5ccbda3/

An FAO webstory was published on the FAO Home page: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/426406/icode/

Video interviews were developed and publicized widely through tweets: - Sambou Nget, Director of Forestry of The Gambia - Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples

Asian Knowledge Exchange Forum on Promoting Rights and Livelihoods through Forest and Farm Producer Organizations

An Asian Knowledge Exchange Forum was co-organised by the International Family Forestry Alliance, the Asian Farmers Association for sustainable rural development, The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), Tree Bank and the FFF in December 2016. A Strategy document as an outcome was published after the event. IUCN published two webstories with an interesting human angle to tell the story: It started with ten farmers sitting around a fire: a tale of a community forestry enterprise

https://www.iucn.org/news/it-started-ten-farmers-sitting-around-fire-tale-community-forestry-enterprise

Value we see in trees: innovation and exchange of ideas: https://www.iucn.org/news/value-we-see-trees-innovation-and-exchange-ideas

Very active tweets were posted by regional partners to share on live video of the presentations and strong statements.

http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/92008/en/

http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ee98bf56-c6ae-49f3-8721-8327f5ccbda3/

http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ee98bf56-c6ae-49f3-8721-8327f5ccbda3/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/426406/icode/

http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/45445-04c9fae2982f2124778db1dce297d67bc.pdf

http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/45445-04c9fae2982f2124778db1dce297d67bc.pdf



https://www.iucn.org/news/value-we-see-trees-innovation-and-exchange-ideas

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Finally many communications materials were shared at the Asia Pacific Forest Week and Asia Pacific Forestry Commission meetings in the Philippines in February and several side events highlighted the work of the FFF.

Twitter

This year the FFF has started sharing activities and key messages through regular tweets posted on the FAO Forestry Twitter account (@FAOForestry) using the hashtag #ForestFarmFacility. Tweets were rich of pictures, quotes, videos, publications etc. covering all FFF major events, publications launched and activities results. The @FAOForestry Twitter account tweeted about #ForestFarmFacility over 100 times during the year, generating more than 760 retweets. Partners (such as IUCN, IIED, and FAO teams, and regional partners, AFA and others) are also using the #ForestFarmFacility hashtag with increasing regularity, improving the overall visibility of the FFF on social media.

An example of the Top tweets

30% of the world’s forests are managed by local people, either formally or informally http://bit.ly/1S4MpPG #ForestFarmFacility

"Indigenous peoples significant part of #ClimateChange solution" - @FordFoundation's @DKaimowitz http://bit.ly/2eGj0yI #ForestFarmFacility

Infographic | How can local communities help address #climatechange? http://bit.ly/2aBZcxz #ForestFarmFacility

Indigenous peoples central to efforts to combat #climatechange http://bit.ly/2a2tw51 #COFO23 #ForestFarmFacility

Linkages with the Indigenous Peoples Team at FAO

Linkages with the FAO team working on Indigenous Peoples were developed this year and resulted in the production of a story on “Improving livelihoods of indigenous women in Nicaragua” published on the FAO Home page, In Action section, which features concrete project results in the field. http://www.fao.org/in-action/improving-livelihoods-of-indigenous-women-in-nicaragua/en/. This collaboration gives a greater visibility to FFF given the importance that the work on IPs has been recently given within FAO.

To strengthen the local capacity of forest and farm producer organizations.

The national communication strategies that were developed in 2015 with support from the FAO Communication for Development team based at FAO headquarters were implemented in The Gambia, Guatemala, Liberia, Nepal and Zambia. The communications activities running in the countries were integrated in the LoAs and documented on the country page of the country. Several videos were produced by countries to document some exchange visits or interesting results of activities related to FFF support. National media were very active in covering important national events supported by FFF, in The Gambia in particular, and several FAO national Press release were published (in Bolivia for example).

To share learning among partners.

FORIS

FORIS, the database linked to the FFF website, was considerably improved this year. The interface for the LoA section has been finalised and the M&L information has been inserted for all LoAs. Information related to country page was updated with highlights, monthly reports and photos uploaded from the reports, and achievements.

http://www.fao.org/in-action/improving-livelihoods-of-indigenous-women-in-nicaragua/en/

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Website

Main highlights from the website include the following: 42 news stories were posted over the year, some pages were translated into Spanish. Efforts were done to disseminate the News items through FAO FO channels (tweets, info news, FO website, other FAO teams...). Google Analytics shows, compared to 2015, an increased number of visitors by 12,5%. The time spent by users on the website has also increased by 13% in 2016. The Publications page comes on the top 5 most visited pages.

Sharing some achievements

A set of five thematic factsheets (presented early 2016 at the SC Meeting 2016) was

produced: "Making the difference". http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-

facility/91489/en/ Through testimony of forest and farm producers, government

representatives, and FFF Steering Committee members, it illustrates some of the value added

and impact of the FFF support on the ground. It shows how organized forest and farm

producers are contributing to reach most of the Sustainable Development Goals.

"Making the difference", a video on FFF mission and preliminary results in the countries was

developed and shared at the Steering Committee Meeting 2016, and through the FO

channels and the Family Farming Knowledge Platform. https://youtu.be/BgH0QpwPPX8

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8. Knowledge generation

Knowledge on risk management for FFPOs

Considerable advances have been made in helping FFPOs manage risk – through a participatory process of developing a risk self-assessment toolkit. Anna Bolin led this work with inputs from Duncan Macqueen (IIED) and also Shoana Humphries (EII), Martin Greijmans (RECOFTC) and Juan Jose Ochaeta who were contributory facilitators of eight case studies. The eight case studies from five countries were published with the book ‘Securing the future’. The case studies encouraged locally controlled businesses to go through a systematic assessment of risks they faced and measures they had used to mitigate risk. Based on these experiences the team of five facilitators met in Edinburgh for a three day write shop to develop a toolkit for risk self-assessment that drew on their practical experience of working with locally controlled forest business. Bolin, A. and Macqueen, D. (eds.) (2016) Securing the future: Managing risk and building resilience within locally controlled forest businesses. International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK. Available at: http://pubs.iied.org/13587IIED/ Bolin, A., Macqueen, D., Greijmans, M., Humphries, S., and Ochaeta, J.J. (2016) Securing forest business. A risk-management toolkit for locally controlled forest businesses. International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK. Available at: http://pubs.iied.org/13583IIED/ The draft toolkit was prepared, laid out and published. It was also translated and published in Spanish. Using separate IIED funds through the related Forest Connect alliance (a knowledge network on supporting locally controlled forest enterprises for support agencies – not forest and farm producer businesses themselves), a competition was run for testing the toolkit and from many applicants ten shortlisted teams were selected to test the toolkit from 10 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A meeting was held, again with separate IIED funding in Ecuador to hear the results of the testing process and to review ways in which to improve the toolkit. The areas of risk assessment were also felt to be an appropriate framework for both distinguishing locally controlled forest business from other business models, and for measuring progress of those businesses in delivering prosperity. Discussions at the end of that meeting prioritised the development of better metrics to distinguish and record the benefits of locally controlled forest business models. Additional areas of knowledge generation that might prove useful for the work of the FFF were also highlighted, including the need to provide guidance on business incubation models and the need to develop tools and tactics on improving market access – among many other useful suggestions. These will be written up in the workshop report and used to inform FFF strategic planning. Learning from this process is that risk management and risk taking by FFPOs needs to consider areas beyond financial risk assessment. The toolkit encourages FFPO managers to assess risks in six areas: revenue flows, natural resources, business relationships, the operating environment, operating capacities and brand recognition. Formal risk self-assessment was a relatively new concept for the participating FFPO businesses. However, there did appear to be existing risk management options being implemented in almost all cases, although to varying degrees. For example, in the risk area of securing revenue flows, options

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included: investing in financial administration, researching buyers and selling as a group, developing working capital reserves to pay members for their products, attracting microfinance to capitalise such reserves, and developing diversification strategies to reduce cash-flow dependence on single product lines. In the risk area of natural resource access, risk-management options included: nurturing strategic partnerships with other suppliers, expanding association membership and on-farm production, developing guidelines for sustainable production, securing product transport from members to buyers and protecting natural resources from fire and wildlife damage. In the risk area of developing business relationships, risk-management options included: developing market networks, installing internal procedures and quality standards for members, developing benefit-sharing agreements to ensure reliable supply from members, formalising external sales contracts and negotiating as a group, and developing delivery schedules to accompany required product volumes. Risk-management options such as these continued to emerge from the other three risk areas. For example, in the risk area of securing the operating environment, risk management options included: joining or establishing industrial roundtables and other federated representation structures, developing specific policy engagement strategies, implementing a communication plan, and undertaking conflict management in the producer landscape. In the risk area of operational capacity, risk-management options included: installing organisational structures and defining and developing staff roles, staff training and demonstration plots; using staff rotation to broaden the skills base; and establishing technology and energy inventories and ensuring spares and backups. In the risk area of brand recognition, risk-management options included: developing an understanding of why branding matters, developing and exploiting a market niche, implementing third-party certification or internal quality standards, working on logo development, and marketing and participation in trade fairs.

Knowledge on the scope, scale and value of FFPO activity

In addition to the knowledge generation and learning above, and following two meetings with the FFF management team, IIED were tasked with developing a review of issues in assessing the collective scale of small and locally-controlled forest-linked investment. This was agreed to be a precursory scoping of the data that existed prior to the commissioning of four papers to fill gaps and build into a full synthesis document. IIED co-financing some staff time in this work. A briefing paper was published online in April 2016 which looked at the challenges in assembling data of this sort and present a summary of some of the available data out there: Mayers, J., Buckley, Macqueen, D. (2016) Small, but many, is big: a review of issues in assessing the collective scale of small and locally-controlled forest-linked investment. IIED, London, UK. Available at: http://pubs.iied.org/16615IIED/ Further definition of what the synthesis paper might look like were suggested by FAO in April 2016, and responded to by IIED through the development of a work plan by mid-April 2016, an important component of which was the initial sharing by management partners of the data that might be used to supplement what had been possible to gather in ‘Small but many is big’. In mid May 2016, a meeting was scheduled to discuss what data might be available within FAO and IUCN following what was hoped to be the preparation of a matrix of data sources by FAO statistical officers. FAO proposed in this late June meeting, localised surveys of small producers to be carried out by the end of the year, but without an FFF budget to carry out such expensive surveys to supplement existing data. IIED responded by suggesting that the much more limited budget for four small reports be used to further develop figures IIED had pulled together in ‘Small but many is big’ and find the right people who could provide more data in particular on (i) ‘tree growers within the subset of small farmers’ (ii) ‘spread between communal and private land rights amongst non-indigenous forest-linked


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communities’ (iii) ‘non-rural forest-linked producers – e.g. furniture etc.’) and perhaps (iv) ‘numbers of local people involved in the ecotourism / conservation industry’. IIED enquired about the data held by FAO and IUCN (and also CIFOR and Forest Peoples Programme) on such issues. On looking at this data, IIED recognised that the inputs of an economist would be useful to add value analysis where possible. IUCN offered the possibility of an IUCN economist conducting the work. IIED prepared a TOR for the consultant which will be pursued in the new year.

Knowledge on innovations towards prosperity delivered by FFPO businesses

A third area of knowledge generation built on 2015 work to document successful case studies of FFPO business models. Following an invitation by the FLARE network, an opportunity arose to prepare a World Development Journal article on ‘Pathways to prosperity’ within the forest sector. It was agreed that IIED would lead an expanded global survey of successful case studies of locally controlled forest and farm business, develop a framework for prosperity, and then assess innovations towards prosperity that could be found in such FFPO business models. A total of 50 case studies were assembled and reviewed. The framework for prosperity that was developed included six main value categories:

Values based on familiarity

(i) sustained environmental and cultural heritage (i.e. appreciation and stewardship of the diversity and beauty embodied in natural and built landscapes and all the art and craft derived from senses, thought and imagination of both men and women).

(ii) material health and wellbeing (i.e. appreciation and sustenance of life itself, maternity and childcare, bodily health and integrity, and the income to secure needs such as food, clothing, housing, social protection, entertainment and so on)

Values based on common interest

(iii) affirmative social relationships (i.e. appreciation and engagement in human or nature-based friendships and associations, including participation in social networks and systems that organise and govern society and the productive systems that sustain or protect it)

(iv) personal and collective security (i.e. appreciation and securing of physical and psychological safety within domestic, work and recreational environments through systems that moderate natural, social and economic forces or powers)

Values based on passions

(v) personal and reproductive fulfilment (i.e. appreciation and realisation of freedom of choice and action, and the educational support to develop self-expression, skills and creativity in work, leisure, and familial love for both men and women).

(vi) cognitive identity and purpose (i.e. appreciation and determination of value, meaning, accomplishment and esteem through the application of emotions and practical reason)

In each area it was shown how the democratic control inherent within locally controlled FFPO business was generating innovations in how each of these value categories was met. In other words, FFPO businesses are contributing to prosperity in ways that conventional business models do not! For example we found: democratic oversight bodies governing environmental and cultural stewardship, negotiated benefit distribution and financial vigilance mechanisms, networks for better access to markets and decision-making, processes for conflict resolution and justice, gendered processes of entrepreneurial training and empowerment, and branding that reinforces local visions of prosperity. Presentations on this work were made at the 2nd annual meeting of the Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement network (FLARE) in Edinburgh and at the Asian Farmers

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Association meeting in Bangkok hosted by RECOFTC in December 2016. The article was drafted, reviewed and will be submitted to the World Development Journal before January 2017: Macqueen, D., Bolin, A., Greijmans, M., Grouwels, S. and Humphries, S. (In prep.) Innovations towards prosperity emerging in locally controlled forest business models and prospects for scaling up. (Submitted to the World Development Journal in December 2016).

Knowledge on tools to support FFPO in self-assessment, governance, strategic planning and monitoring and evaluation

In 2016, a toolkit has been developed by FFF staff at FAO, the CoOPequity programme, the South South Cooperation unit of FAO and We Effect. The toolkit provides guidance and tools to help FFPOs and facilitative organizations to assess and strengthen their functional capacities of FFPOs with gender equality as a cross-cutting issue. The toolkit is intended to be used by practitioners working in and with FFPOs and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that are interested in understanding, undertaking or supporting a process of organizational development in FFPOs. The tools is grounded in the capacity development framework of FAO and is meant to be used in conjunction with other FAO CD materials and methodologies dedicated to organizational and business development of FFPOs and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in particular the Market Analysis and Development (MA&D framework). It comprises four main tools:

1. “The Self-assessment tool for Producer Organizations” to identify their needs aims to provide an understanding of the major strengths and needs of POs in terms of functional and technical capacities. The self-assessment helps FFPOs shed the light on their priority needs and choose the most adequate means to support their capacity development process.

2. ‘Strengthening governance and gender equality in producer organizations- a methodology for analysis, action planning and monitoring’. This handbook supports implementation of the 3 following steps:

a. Analysis: helping FFPOs to better understand their priority needs in terms of governance and gender equality.

b. Strategic planning: supporting FFPOs in the definition of its overall priorities by clarifying its direction and making decisions about allocating resources to pursue their strategy.

c. Monitoring and Evaluation: guiding FFPOs in the process of assessing progress based on the baseline developed from the organizational analysis of POs

3. “Training handbook on developing project proposal writing skills in forest and farm producer organization”. This handbook is intended to serve as a basis for delivering training sessions on the process and end-product of project design and aims to provide FFPOS not only with practical guidance on how to draft project proposals but also tips for project design.

4. “How to facilitate successful exchanges of experiences among producer organizations: A practitioner’s guide” provides detailed guidance and tools on how to organize and conduct such an event.

The toolkit is still to be published but three of the tools (n.2; n.3; n.4) were finalized in 2016 together with the Introduction of the toolkit. For the tool n.3, developed with We Effect, a co-publishing agreement was needed before the issuing of the manual. The agreement has been drafted.

Efforts to take knowledge into the public domain

In terms of taking this knowledge into the public domain, Anna Bolin participated in the IUCN World Conservation Congress in September 2016 together with Pauline Buffle of IUCN from the FFF

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Management team. Together they ran an event: ‘Securing the future: building partnerships for managing risk and resilience of locally controlled forest business’. The multi-stakeholder event launched the book by the same title describing eight locally controlled forestry enterprises' approach to risk management in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The event explored the main sources of risks perceived by the community owners and managers of those enterprises and provided examples of how these are managed in their particular context, using specific tactics and strategies. Together with the Forest Connect alliance (and separately funded by IIED) Anna Bolin, Duncan Macqueen and Sophie Grouwels from FFF helped facilitate the fifth international Forest Connect alliance meeting in Ecuador in November 2016. This launched the toolkit ‘Securing Forest Business’ and heard attempts to test the tools from ten countries as described above. A full workshop report is being prepared to be made available in January 2017. Duncan Macqueen participated in a World Bank PROFOR event on forests and poverty in November 2016 to represent the thinking of FFF in which strengthening forest and farm producer organisations is the key entry point to reducing poverty – in contrast with other models based on large-scale private sector outsourcing or partnership. An attempt was made to strengthen attention to the needs of producer organisation within the PRIME framework currently used by the World Bank. A detailed set of recommendations was submitted to the Bank following leadership of one of three working groups. Contributions to the meeting report were submitted to the World Bank and a meeting report is due shortly. Duncan Macqueen also represented FFF at the 2nd Annual FLARE meeting in Edinburgh to present the paper on “Innovations towards prosperity emerging in locally controlled forest business models and prospects for scaling up”.

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9. Mid Term Evaluation and Management response

Mid Term Evaluation

In August 2016 a thorough mid-term evaluation was finalized and the final version was shared thereafter with SC members electronically. This consisted of a global evaluation with recommendations and more detailed country evaluations from Bolivia, Guatemala, Gambia, Kenya, Myanmar and Vietnam. The main report and the country case studies can be found on the following links: http://www.fao.org/3/a-bq504e.pdf (main report) http://www.fao.org/evaluation/evaluation-digest/evaluations-detail/en/c/445423/ (country case studies). The evaluation team was composed of: Dr James K. Gasana, Evaluation Team Leader, Juan José Ochaeta Castellanos, Regional Consultant for Latin America, Dr Ohnmar Myo Aung, National Consultant Myanmar Dr Dao Trong Tu, National Consultant Vietnam Eoghan Molloy, OED, Evaluation Manager. The FFF partnership and management team appreciate very much the overall process involved in the conduct of the mid-term evaluation. There was a good collegial exchange of ideas and discussion of the design including the criteria to be used for the selection of countries and key questions based on the Monitoring and Learning framework and inputs from the team, Steering Committee and donors. All of these helped contribute to an emphasis on the utility of the MTE. Both the manager of the process and the lead evaluator did a good job in sharing their perspectives throughout the process and the report back to countries was well managed. We valued the professional quality of the evaluation and inputs and recommendations. The evaluation manager was particularly responsive to requests for certain clarifications and worked with a professional balance between consultation and independence to ensure a fair evaluative process. This made the MTE a shared learning experience. Things did, however take a little longer than anticipated in reaching the final product which put some stress on the timeline for resource mobilization dependent on the MTE. The conclusions section of the executive summary is excerpted below and the recommendations are provided as part of the formal “management response” which follows. Actions taken already in response to the recommendations are highlighted in bold in the management response.

Conclusions of the Evaluation

Conclusion 1: FFF’s focus and logic are well aligned to participating countries’ policy

frameworks, and there is a high level of ownership at all levels of government in each

country. This model of providing direct support to FFPOs’ proposals is highly relevant to

targeted forest and farm smallholders. The focus and logic are aligned with FAO’s strategic

objectives SO2 and SO3. The project design is appropriate for achieving its outcomes and

vision, and it addresses challenges such as the limited ability of forest and farm smallholders

to access markets, participate in value chains and engage in policy processes.

Conclusion 2: The project is on track to achieving the expected outcomes of Pillar 1. FFPOs in

each country are making progress in including their issues on political agendas, and in

promoting inclusive business models, participation in value chains and linkage to markets.

Regarding Pillar 2, implementation progress varied among the countries due to the fact

that Outcome 3, being of a political nature, is not under FFF control. For Pillar 3, the project

is on track at regional and global levels to link farmers’ voices to global processes.

http://www.fao.org/3/a-bq504e.pdf

http://www.fao.org/evaluation/evaluation-digest/evaluations-detail/en/c/445423/

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Conclusion 3: FFF’s training activities aimed at improving target groups’ basic business

skills are helping to improve their participation in value chains and their linkage to markets.

While those trainings are essential, they are not sufficient to develop value chains which

requires additional support to FFPOs to improve their terms of engagement with national,

regional and international markets.

Conclusion 4: FFF was effective in linking FFPOs to markets and engaging in policy

dialogue. FFF also contributed to raising the awareness of forest and farm smallholders on

the multiple advantages of working together.

Conclusion 5: FFF’s operational modality is highly efficient in terms of inputs relative

to results, considering the relatively limited financial resources invested, duration of

implementation to date, and the number of countries participating. This efficiency is due

to the effectiveness of the project steering committee in providing guidance to the FFF

team; the high level of coordination among FAO, IIED and IUCN; the expertise of the FFF

team and the commitment and enthusiasm of its members; and the national facilitators’

experience and dedication.

Conclusion 6: The M&L system is a robust tool for monitoring FFF’s activities and learning.

It has been used effectively in supporting learning by providing information to the

communication efforts of FAO, IIED and IUCN.

Conclusion 7: FFF adequately takes into account FAO’s commitment to gender equality

and the rights of indigenous people, not only in its design but also in implementation

and monitoring, and in proposals submitted by FFPOs for small grants. The inclusion of

indigenous peoples’ representatives on the project steering committee is an innovative

and unique approach that has contributed to the effectiveness and relevance of the project. As part of the formal process the FFF team then prepared a short management response according to FAO’s format. This is given below with comments in bold to report on progress against the commitments.

Recommendations and Management response

The management team thank the five person review team led by James Gasana and Eoghan Molloy for conducting a thorough evaluation of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) including missions to five countries (Gambia, Guatemala, Kenya, Myanmar and Vietnam) against its vision that “smallholders, communities and indigenous people’s organisations have improved their livelihoods and decision-making of forest and farm landscapes”. The management team finds the review to be thorough, fair and constructive – and we will endeavour to enhance the programme still further in line with the principal recommendations. We felt that two important dimensions of the Forest and Farm Facility’s work: the regional and global events and support to FFPOS and the considerable communications efforts of the FFF received less attention and discussion than might have been merited – though references are made to both of these elements in the current evaluation. We respond to the recommendations below but have also taken note of the very relevant and useful comments found in many of the detailed country reports.

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Management response matrix

Evaluation Recommendation (a)

Management response (b)

Accepted, partially accepted or rejected

Actions to be taken, and/or comments about partial acceptance or rejection (c)

Recommendation 1: The results achieved during the remaining 1.5 years of the FFF should be consolidated in order to maintain and build upon the programme’s achievements, further improve progress and impact, and continue the political momentum achieved in participating countries to support the development priorities of forest and farm smallholders.

Accepted

Work plans for the second half of 2016 are proceeding as planned and new work plans for 2017 will be developed drawing on recommendations from the MTE and learning from the Monitoring and Learning system to build and consolidate the programme. Given current financial shortfalls for 2017, a comprehensive resource mobilization plan has been developed and efforts are underway at global, regional and country level to attract the necessary funding to maintain and build upon current programme achievements. NOTE FOR SC REPORT: Resource mobilization successfully attracted USD 2.1 million in new funding and aprox. USD 900,000 in renewed funding

Recommendation 2: A second phase of FFF should be considered in order to consolidate and expand its achievements, strengthen the capacity of participating countries to scale up results, and develop appropriate exit strategies.

Accepted

FFF is actively planning a second phase of work The Management Team and partners with support from delegated Steering Committee members have developed a Concept Note for Phase II. This will be widely shared with FAO country and regional offices and with other donors and partners and tailored longer version will be finalized on receipt of feedback. Phase II discussions with relevant donors have already been initiated and will continue at the global, regional and country levels. The resource mobilization plan developed includes both funding for the current period and for phase II. NOTE FOR SC REPORT A Phase II Programme Document has been prepared.

Recommendation 3: To the FFF team on refining the FFF’s ToC to match the strength of its model - Consider refining the FFF’s ToC and revising the M&L system accordingly to match the strength of its model by adding the missing building blocks.

Accepted

We fully appreciate the suggestion to enhance the refinement of our theory of change. Drawing from the suggestions provided, we will amend our internal TOC to reflect some of the implicit assumptions more clearly. WE wuk share the amended TOC with our immediate partners during the annual learning and planning meetings at the end of the calendar year, in each country to incorporate their suggestions and stimulate work plan discussions for the final year. An amended TOC will then be presented to the Steering Committee in February 201. NOTE FOR SC REPORT – New TOC developed for Phase II instead – presented in Appendix to Annual Report.

Recommendation 4: To FFF team to streamline VCD in interventions relating to Pillar. Increase efforts to improve the value chain development approach by adding elements which focus on value addition, processing, linkage to various actors in the same chains (especially downstream), and enable FFPOs to improve the terms of engagement with national, regional and international markets.

Partially accepted

We welcome the endorsement of effective business skill development amongst large numbers of forest and farm producer organisations. We appreciate the encouragement to strengthen and deepen our work on inclusive value chains. We feel that the observation on insufficient development of value chains misunderstands slightly the approach to step-wise value chain development in the FFF programme. Value chain development is central to the Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) approach which we have been using, but with different levels of capacity in many countries, we are building technical, analytical and entrepreneurial skills to identify opportunities for value chain upgrading systematically. Building on good suggestions in the evaluation we will work with our FFPO partners to help them undertake a self-assessment of the primary value chains they are currently working with and to prioritize those with greatest potential to include women, youth and Indigenous peoples and smallholders. This process will help to illustrate the range of value chain work going on but focus efforts to deepen and expand our value chain development focus for phase II of the programme. NOTE FOR SC REPORT Ongoing - Training session on value chains and improving market access held at FFF and assessment work included in elements of work plan. New Guide to Guide on Improving access to Markets is under production and the idea of FFPO mentors will be field tested. Phase II has expanded value chain activities and focus.

Recommendation 5: To the FFF team to enhance support to the development of women’s entrepreneurship- While continuing to address gender-specific barriers (including lack of skills and poor access to resources), enhance support to the development of women’s entrepreneurship in forest and farm-based value chains in order to ensure equal participation in value chains and linkages to markets. Increased focus should also be given to the inclusion of youth in FFPO activities.

Accepted

We welcome the exhortation to continue our work on gender mainstreaming in value chain development –and an increased focus on youth. In pursuit of this a more explicit FFF Gender and Youth Strategy is being developed and each country programme will be infused with a strengthened emphasis on support to women’s enterprises and to expanding opportunities for youth. Emphasis will be increased through targeted small grants and continued learning exchanges Training on increasing inclusion of women in leadership, business and financial literacy will be increased, through opportunities such as the FAO-SEWA Strategic Partnership (beginning in Nepal),. NOTE FOR SC REPORT- Gender Assessments conducted in each country, half day training on Gender dimensions in FFF implementation for all FFF team at Retreat – explicit focus on gender in work plans – and draft FFF Gender Strategy developed and attached in Annual Report to SC.

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10. Reflections and lessons learned The theory of change of FFF (e.g. organisation of producers is the entry point to reducing poverty through business and policy engagement), proved through two and a half years of implementation, was confirmed through a highly positive independent mid-term review. Compared to various other theories of change (e.g. REDD+ climate change finance will incentivise adaptive mitigation, or FLEGT trade-based legality assurance systems will drive governance improvements) the emerging impacts from FFF are conspicuous, not only by their credibility within a transparent monitoring and learning system, but also by their scale and resource use efficiency (scarce resources in, major impacts out). This third year of FFF activity allowed the teams to begin to go to scale in some countries and document stories of progress in more specific thematic and sectoral detail. Notable learning reflections from in-country FFF teams included:

The scale of opportunity through organization

The undisputed power of federated producer organisations to effect change including through product-specific groupings (delivering major Cocoa, Coffee incentive programmes), but simultaneously, the limited awareness of the advantages of group work at local level. There is much to be done in awareness raising (e.g. Bolivia, Guatemala, Vietnam).

The importance of building local evidence and awareness of group successes within the overall framework of FFF’s ‘theory of change’ is a critical part of generating confidence and trust necessary for different producer and producer groups to work together (e.g. Liberia, Myanmar).

The efficacy of exchange visits to spread and upscale innovations based on local learning from one site to another (in line with landscape level ambitions of FFF). These can be both in-country or international – but they certainly benefit from inclusion of producers and decision makers / supporters together (e.g. Myanmar, Zambia).

The options for installing good internal governance mechanisms of FFPOs are an ongoing priority as it is good internal governance which maintains the model. Annual congresses, participatory review processes, oversight committees, audits and reviews of financial management are important ingredients (e.g. Gambia, Zambia).

The opportunity of using organisation to address socio-economic stigma related to products associated with illegality, such as charcoal, by engaging government at local and national level to organise producers in “hot spot” areas and simultaneously engage with related policy formulation processes (Zambia).

The pathways that lead to policy progress

The effectiveness of nested approaches to influencing decision making – with innovations happening at local level (where FFPOs can spell out local changes required) then used to prompt revisions to high level policy for issues requiring higher level change (e.g. Vietnam, Nepal).

The necessary sectoral integration that requires multi-stakeholder platforms as a way of hearing FFPOs integrated outlook and challenges, generating consensus about how to tackle those challenges, improving policy alignment, and developing commitment to action and financing. (e.g. Nepal).

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The importance of facilitation (by an apex body or independent facilitator) to ensure participation and alignment of interests of Government, market players, financial service providers, NGOs, researchers – breaking down programmatic silos to leverage joint actions that draw on multiple funding sources (e.g. Guatemala, Liberia, Nicaragua).

The vitality that comes from local ownership of the process both internally (M&L) and externally (platforms), preferably by an apex level producer organisation, greatly accelerates the possibilities for spreading and scaling up progress (e.g. Zambia).

The resilience that comes from baskets of business activities

The foundational nature of financial sustainability in sustaining producer organisations broader ambitions through solid business propositions is one of the core ingredients of successful FFPO-related economic, landscape and social transformations (Kenya).

The inherent advantages of organisational scale – that allow businesses to cut costs, negotiate better sales prices, attract investment and share information. Building the trust and collaboration needed to secure these advantages accelerates as success stories multiply in country – especially if articulated by apex organisation (e.g. Vietnam and Bolivia).

The conceptual shift from subsistence to business that is required –this is not only a mental shift for forest and farm producers that requires training, but a political shift that requires changes to how FFPOs are supported (Kenya).

The approaches to business incubation that work – which at the outset include iterative and highly participatory training in organisational development, entrepreneurial skills, risk management and proposal writing.

The security that diversified baskets of products and production systems bring – which require broad collective knowledge - not solely single vertical value chain expertise.

The importance of value added processing and packaging – and direct market linkages (shortening of the value chains) which alongside collective negotiating, are important ways of increasing benefits (Nepal / Vietnam).

Going beyond training towards more specific business mentoring and brokering with sources of markets, technology and finance (and financing for) technological upgrading is an area requiring further support in order for producers to acquire the knowledge and skills required to compete with established market players (e.g. Guatemala and Kenya).

Labelling could and should better distinguish FFPO ways of producing (with Government) and products (with consumers are an important priority) (e.g. Vietnam) but requires tailoring to local contexts.

The impacts that inspire replication and attract support

Robust quantitative indicators and more reflective learning questions built into the reporting requirements of all partners, are widely appreciated, create a shared learning framework that helps to build confidence and trust in the economic, social and environmental impacts emerging from FFF.

Economic impacts quickly follow collective action – with various examples of reducing costs, improving prices, and expanding volumes coming from many countries (Gambia, Guatemala, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Vietnam).

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Intractable environmental problems are tackled through collective FFPO action (e.g. groupings of charcoal production that commit to replanting) (e.g. Zambia, Liberia).

Social investments are being catalysed, either directly by FFPOs or are levered from public sector social security services (in infrastructure, education, etc) and this has in part been catalysed by MA&D trainings (Vietnam).

Demonstrating leadership in integrated approaches with other programmes that can really leverage large scale funding and higher impact – particularly through linkages to climate change funding, nationally determined contributions, REDD+, Forest Landscape Restoration and other programmes provides new opportunities (Guatemala).

The challenge of providing innovative solutions and collaboration while maintaining a unique programmatic niche – how to link without being “swallowed up” or co-opted by other programmes, balancing joint resource mobilisation with core funding for FFF.

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11. Partnerships and collaboration – leveraging impacts and resources

Partnerships and collaboration

FAO - We Effect Strategic Partnership

The following note aims to summarize the progress achieved by the Partnership between the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) programme and the We Effect organization at global and at country level in 2016. Global Planning and joint resource mobilizations activities have started in many of the countries involved yet, no funding source has been secured so far but significant interest has been generated and the possibilities for future advancements are promising. A number of tools and methodologies are currently being developed by the FAO FFF and CoOPequity programmes. The Strengthening Forest and Farm Producer Organizations Toolkit has been developed by the FFF Programme in collaboration with the CoOPequity programme, the South South Cooperation unit of FAO and We Effect. The toolkit, which is intended to be used by practitioners working in and with FFPOs and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), aims to provide guidance and tools to help FFPOs and facilitative organizations to assess and strengthen the functional capacities of FFPOs. Specific focus is on governance; business capacities; with gender equality as a cross-cutting issue in order for them to be able to plan and develop sustainable, equitable and financially viable forest and farm product-based enterprises, and strengthen their voice in the policy and development processes impacting them. The toolkit is going to be published in 2017. Country level of the FAO- We Effect Strategic Partnership Kenya: Joint project proposal developed on “Capacity Development of Smallholder Producer Organizations for improved livelihoods, gender equality and resilience to climate change in Kenya” and a 2-pagers and short project proposal on POs, resilience and gender developed and presented to USAID. Currently, activities are ongoing in the framework of the LoA signed with We Effect. Trainings on organizational assessment of POs and a training of trainers in village savings and loan approach are ongoing. Malawi: We Effect has expressed interest in developing joint activities in the country, where the FAO CoOPequity programme has implemented activities in support of Producer Organizations in cooperation with UN Women. This is a strong candidate country for FFF in a possible Phase II. Zambia: In Zambia, We Effect and FAO agreed to collaborate to support the efforts of the Zambian National farmers Union (ZNFU) on strengthening the capacity of contact farmers and information centers (ICs) to increase the business capacities and strengthen the voices of small-holders producers in local forest and farm platforms. We Effect supported the development of study circles linked to the ICs and planned to engage in the production of related knowledge materials. In 2016, a number of meetings were also held to agree on modalities for the implementation of FAO/We Effect partnership and to define a joint strategy for resource mobilization. A donor mapping exercise was conducted and a joint concept note “Strengthening Zambian local Forest and Farm Producer Organizations for better livelihoods and sustainable forest and farm practices” was drafted based on the recommendations stemming from the multi-stakeholder workshop and presented to possible resource partners. A second note “Strengthening local service delivery organizations for better livelihoods, sustainable environmental management and farm practices in Luswishi Farm Block of Lufwanyama District” was developed and submitted to the Africa Development Bank (AFDB). This work was put on indefinite hold

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with the suspension of the Letter of Agreement and activities supported by ZNFU. Alternatives are being explored so support this work through other organizations. Guatemala: Assessments to identify the need gaps of POs were carried out earlier. An exchange workshop on successful organizational models for the integration of small scale farmers, women, youth and indigenous people in forestry and agro-forestry value-chains, with the participation of representatives of POs and Government from Guatemala, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Mexico, Honduras and Belize, was held in FEDECOVERA in Guatemala (April 2016), with the sponsorship of BCIE and IUCN, and with the participation of IDB. A Donor mapping exercise has been conducted and a short project proposal developed on strengthening POs as key actor of rural territorial development. Validated with FAOR and WE, and presented to JICA, BCIE, USAID and BID climate and BID FOMIN. A Project proposal on strengthening POs for the implementation of the PROBOSQUE law, was also drafted and presented to donors (BCIE, IDB, USAID among others). Bolivia: FFF Bolivia and We Effect Bolivia have also taken part in the exchange in FEDECOVERA in Guatemala (April 2016). A Donor mapping exercise was conducted to identify possible resource partners. Nicaragua: FFF and We Effect Nicaragua participated in the launching workshop in Guatemala. FFF and We Effect counterparts (POs) participated also in the exchange visit with FEDECOVERA in Guatemala (April 2016) Vietnam: FAO/FFF, We Effect and local partners in Vietnam organized a back-to-back workshop to define a common strategy to mobilize resources and scale up activities in support of forest and farm producer organizations in Asia. A joint FAO-We Effect Concept Note was developed and revised with their respective country partners, Vietnamese National Farmers Union (VNFU) and Vietnamese Cooperative Alliance (VCA): ‘Strengthening Vietnamese forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) for better livelihoods and sustainable forest and farm practices’. Myanmar: A National Exchange of knowledge and experiences between forest and farm producer groups on group creation and legal status, with a special focus on cooperatives’ financial management, governance and access to markets was jointly organized by FAO FFF/CoOPequity-MERN and CCS in Pathein, from the 11th of July to the 15th of July 2016 with the participation of two members of VCA, We Effect’s partner in Vietnam. Similarly to Vietnam, a number of activities were carried out by We Effect, with the financial support of FAO, to identify need gaps of POs: a brief field assessment of the capacity development needs of Forest and Farm POs and Farmer cooperatives was carried out in the country as well as a synergy assessment on FAO WE country projects, respectively: “The Forest and Farm Facility in Myanmar” and “Strengthening rural cooperatives in Myanmar”. A mapping and assessment of public and private stakeholders providing services or support to Forest and Farm POs in Myanmar was also conducted. A draft joint Concept Note, ‘ Strengthening community forest user groups securing sustainable climate resilient livelihoods - Moving from Users to Producers’, has been developed by FAO and We Effect and their partners in the country, MERN and CCS. As a result of this process the CCS were invited to join the Community Forestry National Working Group and the Department of Forestry is supporting the idea that some Community Forestry Product Producers Organizations might register their enterprises as cooperatives.

FAO- Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Partnership

FAO and the Self Employed Women association signed a Memorandum of Understating, on the 13th of September 2016 to work together for a period of three years in support of rural poor and women empowerment. SEWA and the FAO FFF programme in collaboration with SABHA and FNCSI, IUCN and FECOFUN will: i) conduct national level training, in Nepal, on policy advocacy, women empowerment and leadership to members of district federation in collaboration with SABAH/SEWA and ii) organize exposure visits to

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women and indigenous producer groups for learning and sharing of established enterprises in collaboration with SABAH and FNCSI, IUCN (India-Nepal).

Leveraging resources to increase impacts

Sustainability is assured through adoption of favourable policies, strengthening of autonomous institutions, the establishment platforms and policy processes for ongoing representation and coordination and by linkages to markets that will continue to provide benefits and finally through connections with other sources of finance and investment. 2016 saw the culmination of a number of efforts by FFF to help governments and FFPO apex organizations to leverage significant funding and thereby significantly increase the scale of implementation and impacts.

In several countries FFF was able take advantage of opportunities to mobilize or release significant funding. This has happened in several ways. The first is through direct inputs and support for national policies which then allocated significant national funding. Most dramatic is in Bolivia where FFF has supported producers to get organized at national and subnational level and participate in the preparation of three national government programmes in support of forest and farm producer. All three programmes are now being implemented leveraging USD 110 Million. These include: the national program to strengthen cacao production in Bolivia, budget USD 37.6 Million; the national program to strengthen coffee production in Bolivia, budget USD 36.2 Million; and the program to support sustainable management of the Bolivian Amazon, budget USD 36.2 Million. 2016 saw ongoing work to set up the regulations and administrative procedures for the disbursement of incentives under Guatemala’s hew Probosque Law – which was shaped by earlier FFF support for technical and legal inputs on behalf of the National Alliance’s 400 member organizations. Under this law, 1 percent of revenues in the national budget will be distributed to forest producers. The plan is to start in 2017 for the ensuing 30 years – constituting an estimated US$20 million per year and US$667 million over the full period. Based on the previous impacts of the PINFOR and PINPEP programmes, it is estimated that the Probosque Law will generate 20 000 direct and 60 000 indirect jobs per year – supporting over the 30-year period about 7.5 million people, of whom 30 percent are women, in 1.5 million families. The second area where significant leveraging took place was by influencing other programmes, projects and funding sources. For example in The Gambia FFF collaborated closely in the design of two other FAO forestry projects: Action Against Desertification Project (started in 2016 -Great Green Wall) and Community- Based Dry land Forest Management Project (will start in 2017 - GEF6). There will be important opportunities for resource leverages, especially during the process of ANR Policy review, support to Community Forest Management and Community Outreach Activities. The Action Against Desertification Project component in the Gambia aims to enhance the livelihoods of the rural communities through enhanced farm production and productivity, as well as through the development of community capacity in community based enterprises development for wood and non-wood forest products. The project will facilitate the stepwise legal transfer processes of forest resources and empowerment of communities with the technical skills to manage and utilize the available resources. The area of intervention corresponds to three regions: North Bank Region, North of Central River Region and Upper River Regions. The project started in October 2015 and its duration is 41 months, ending in February 2019; total budget EUR 7 386 852 (Donor contribution= EUR 1 500 000 + joint co-funding (EUR 2 800 000 from FAO through GEF + FFF) as well as parallel co-financing). Similarly in Guatemala FFF helped develop a project proposal to Koica “Addressing climate change though climate smart interventions in forest and farm systems in Guatemala”. The project has a budget of USD 21.1 million for 3 years, which will be funded by Koica USD 7 M (33%), Government of Guatemala 58%, FAO 9%. The outcomes of the FFF operations in Guatemala were pivotal for the proposal. Also the FFPOs supported by FFF are active part of the project. This innovative project will be implemented in the territory with an integrated approach of five programmes FFF, FLEGT, FLRM, UNREDD and Watershed Management and Mountain Partnership and could form the basis for Green Climate Fund projects in the future.

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UN REDD will support the exchange of experiences among producers and their participation in the preparation of a national policy on territorial management done by Indigenous Peoples and communities. This build on the FFF support to MINGA. Total amount of the LoA USD 40.000. Additionally all the LoAs were prepared considering contribution of the recipient organization and also other sources. The contribution of the FFF is around 25% of the total budget of the LoAs in Bolivia. It means that each LoA has leverage around 75% of the budget. This 75% comes from the own implementing organization and also other partners. Links with the REDD+ program in Vietnam, Zambia, Liberia and Bolivia are already generating more resources directly to FFPOs there and this work is continuing. Linking FFPOs directly to new actors is also contributing to leveraging of resources. This has happened by inviting FFPOs to participate in national and international meetings (like the International Cooperative Summit) and by improving fund raising skills through proposal writing training which helped a small grants recipient in Kenya, the Laikipia Livestock Marketing Association (LLMA) to attract unexpected funding for the construction of a slaughter house from the African Wildlife Foundation. Just these cases alone show the significant leveraging of resources in 2016 and this relatively hidden dimension of the FFF’s work.

12. Financial Statement 2016

in USD

FFF Management Team11%

PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

80%

Communication1%

Monitoring and Learning

5%

Other Expenditures

4% PSC10%

2016 Actual Expenditures by category

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Programme Implementation by Pillars, level and organization types

Country Pillar I Country Pillar II Regional and Global Pillar III

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13. Phase II A draft Programme Document for Phase II has been developed and will be circulated separately. Given below is an extract from the executive summary which lays out the basic concept. Phase II of The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) comes at a moment of renewed global efforts towards

development challenges, the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement on climate change are among the most

notable. It also comes at a time when more and more governments are developing integrated responses to

climate change and strategies for transforming rural economies, centred not only on the protection of natural

capital, but premised on equity and social inclusion as engines for growth. FFF’s past support to the very

people who take significant action on a daily basis to mitigate climate change by protecting forests and

planting trees on common lands and private farms, diversifying and adapting their farming systems and

seeking innovative means for increasing incomes and livelihoods by getting organized – makes the

programme well placed to contribute to climate and development outcomes.

It has become increasingly clear, however, that no single initiative can achieve the global impact needed to

tackle development challenges. FFF is in a unique position to connect the mosaic of initiatives working

towards climate and development objectives by supporting the “missing links” that are needed to translate

the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into practice, and to translate these various initiatives into

impact: smallholders, communities, and indigenous peoples. These smallholders are the primary producers

of food, forest products and ecosystem services – and number 1.5 billion people globally, comprise 90% of

the world’s farms and, in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, supply 80% of food. Their family members are also

involved in marketing and processing enterprises, comprising a significant proportion of the small scale

private sector.

The same smallholders, who rely on the forests and landscapes to scale up impacts and ensure sustainability,

and their forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOS) which can integrate and connect programmes to

them, are critical to achieving at least 12 of 17 SDGs, including those targeting poverty, hunger, gender

equality, climate action and the sustainable management of natural resources. They are also the common

denominator in existing programmes and mechanisms such as national climate change programmes

(including the NDCs and REDD+ implementation), and central to FAO’s Strategic Objectives on Reducing Rural

Poverty (SP3) and Sustainable Agricultural Production (SP2) Programmes. It is time to facilitate their true

potential.

A mid Term Evaluation found the FFF approach to be both “highly efficient in terms of inputs relative to

results” and “highly relevant… filling the gaps in rural development cooperation”. Phase II will build on FFF’s

past support to FFPOs, through its proven, cost-effective mechanism to strengthen the capacity of these

smallholders, and support innovative cross-sectoral processes in government to increase the delivery of

climate responses in landscapes and link them to more inclusive and sustainable economic opportunities and

social benefits for the rural poor. It will also work to tackle the challenges facing FFPOs evidenced during

these past four years of work – including isolation, especially for women, value chains and market systems

that do not optimize returns to poor smallholders, and inequitable distribution of social benefits, and policies

that are often at cross purposes among many others – to significantly increase the scale and range of impacts.

As such, phase two will sharpen its focus on gender equality and value chains to better support FFPOs, who

are at the very core of climate resilient landscapes. With its unique focus on FFPOS as vital pathways for

change, Phase II will work specifically to achieve:

Outcome 1: More inclusive and enabling governance and policy processes (SDG 16 & 17).

Outcome 2: Increased entrepreneurship, access to markets and finance through gender equitable

value chains (SDG1, 5, 8 & 12).

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Outcome 3: Enhanced landscape scale mitigation, adaptation and resilience to address climate

change, food security and nutrition (SDG 2, 13, & 15).

Outcome 4: Improved and gender equitable access to social and cultural services (SDG 3 & 10).

Key intervention pathways can help FFPOs leverage change.

1. Strengthening the capacity of FFPOs through direct financial support and technical assistance;

i. To improve governance, representation, gender equality and efficiency as inclusive member

based organizations

ii. To offer a range of services including advocacy, information sharing, business incubation and

support, access to finances and social services to their members.

2. Explicitly focusing on women, youth and Indigenous Peoples as primary actors.

3. Identifying and facilitating the effectiveness of cross sectoral policy platforms and processes.

4. Brokering linkages between FFPOS and climate response and development programs (REDD+,

NAPAs, NDCs, forest landscape restoration and development programs framed by Agenda 2030 -

SDGs)

5. Development of more inclusive value chains for baskets of products from well managed landscapes

and a thickened local economy with many more small-scale off farm processing and value addition

enterprises.

6. Multi-layered knowledge generation and exchange including peer-to-peer learning, South-South

Collaboration, documenting and sharing best practices and stories of innovation and impact.

7. Intentional support to regional and global connections that link local to global FFPOs to improve the

two way flow of knowledge and advocacy from the local level into international climate relevant

policy processes and vice versa.

Solutions will have to be tailored uniquely to each country and region and fine-tuned through a participatory planning and Monitoring and Learning system. FFF Phase II will scale up its unique approach, building on the comparative advantages of its four co-management partners: the FAO, IIED, IUCN, and AgriCord with increased links to complimentary programmes to accelerate impacts in 25 countries. It has built a robust Monitoring and Learning framework to measure and improve delivery, and focuses on leaving independent member-based organizations, responsive government institutions and strong market linkages in place to ensure sustainability. Risk assessments and management strategies are built in to the planning process and special tools prepared to help FFPOs conduct their own risk assessments.

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14. The FFF team

FFF Team members at FAO headquarters, IIED, IUCN and country facilitators.

The Manager (FAO HQ) Jeff Campbell

Country Coaches (FAO HQ) Sophie Grouwels

Jhony Zapata

Regional and Global Team (IUCN) Chris Buss

Pauline Buffle

Communications team (FAO HQ)

Marguerite France-Lanord (50%)

Marco Perri (25%)

Luca Paolini (25%)

APO (Germany) Svea Obermaier

Knowledge Generation and Monitoring

and Learning team (IIED)

Duncan Macqueen

Anna Bolin

General Services team (FAO HQ)

Zoraya Gonzalez

Ulrika Haggmark

Martina Guerra

Tatiana Lebedeva

Intern Clara Benavent

Country Facilitators

Bolivia Boris Fernandez

Guatemala Ogden Antonio Rodas

Kenya Philip Kisoyan

Liberia Kolly Allison

Myanmar Aung Thant Zin (ATZ)

Nepal Racchya Shah

Nicaragua Leonardo Chavez

The Gambia Kanimang Camara

Vietnam Vu Le Y Voan

Zambia Vincent Ziba

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FFF Steering Committee

NAME AFFILIATION CONTACT

1 August Temu World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (Chairperson)

International Research Community

[email protected] tel. +254 20 722 4197

2 Peter de Marsh, Chairperson, IFFA

Forest Producer Organization

[email protected] tel: +1 506 367 2503

3

Levi Sucre Romero Red Indigena Bribri y Cabecar (RIBCA), Costa Rica And Coordinator, Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests

Community Forestry Organization

[email protected] +505 22 93 63 39

4

Rukka Sombolinggi Special Staff to Secretary General, Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago (AMAN)

Indigenous Peoples’ Organization

[email protected] +62 8297954

5 Emelia Arthur Presidential Advisor, Policy Delivery Unit, Office of the President, Ghana

Government/Policy [email protected]

tel. +233 244 469 015

6 Ignace Coussement Managing Director, AgriCord

Business Development Service Provider

Organization

[email protected] tel.+32 (0)16 242750

mob: +32 473 882 104

7 Joji Cariño Director, Forest Peoples Programme

Policy and Advocacy NGO [email protected]

+44 (0)1608 652893

8 Noemi Perez FAST-F

Finance / Private sector [email protected]

+1-514-759-6626

9 Markku Aho Consultant, Finland

International Development

[email protected] +358405211912

10 Eva Müller Director Forestry Policy and Resources Division, FAO

Partner/Hosting Institution

[email protected] tel. +390657054628

mailto:[email protected]









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Annex 1: Monitoring and Learning Aggregate Indicators for 2016

Bolivia Gambia Guatemala Kenya Liberia Myanmar Nepal Nicaragua Vietnam Zambia Reg. / Global

Total

Outcome 1 Producers are organized for policy dialogue

Output 1.1 Dispersed local producers are organised into effective and gender inclusive groups

Indicator 1.1.1 : Number of groups formed and active

20 local 3 regional 5 national federation

10 1 alliance, 10 2nd level and 250 1st level organisations

1 national;12 local + 6 new local products based associ-ations

2 (FUN 60,000 & NACUL 2,004 members) + 5 new charcoal groups registering as a groups business

80 (72 CFPPA village level, 5 township, 1 sub-state and 2 sub-regional associations)

2 national 43 local

8 (4 Mayangna women + 4 new community forestry enterprises)

1 national 9 local (up from 4 local in 2015)

11 new groups (1 National Forest Association, 10 new charco-al PO’s formed

3 global, 2 Regional alliances

3 global 2 regional, 6 national, 605 local

Indicator 1.1.2: Representativeness (e.g. females, youth)

25-50% women

63.5% women

23% women and 4% youth

44% women, 30% youth

40% women average 31% women

27-30%% women

80% (down 20% due to new CFE’s)

average 38% 40-50% women and youth 30%

N/A as represent > 30 million people

15-100% women

Indicator 1.1.3: Overall % of female leaders in organizations

10-60% 50% 10% (16% in 2014)

36% N/A 25% representation on manage-ment committees

38-68% 35 women leaders in 8 PO’s only 1 without women leader-ship

6% (7 across 9 groups, down from 20% in 2015)

N/A 10-70%

Indicator 1.1.4: Number of meetings to develop policy priorities

Many with 2 strategic plans and 2 operational plans

85 6 Alliance meetings

12 (monthly) 75 (FUN 60- & NACUL 15)

316 (but not all on policy)

10 65 4-7 per group 33 mixed policy and busin-ess

At least 5 204

Output 1.2 Producer groups work together with government and private sector to improve policy

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Total

Indicator 1.2.1 Number of policy meetings attended

Many – five month processes in 3 main federations

4 60 meetings of 15 platforms (quarterly meetings)

4 local level and 5 national level dialogues

2 (FUN & NACUL)

3 38 0 19 (13 round-ables and 4 focus group discussion, 2 policy workshops)

1 ZNFU national congress

3 96

Indicator 1.2.2 Number of policies reviewed and/or proposed

3 major policy programmes

4 3 regulations for climate change, Probosque & PINPEP; 1 FLR mechanism

1 action plan for Forest Management Trust Fund (KFS)

2 Laws – the Land Authority and Land Rights Acts; 2 regulat-ions for Chainsaw and Charcoal

9 (8 regional & 1 national workshop on CFI)

3 (registrat-ion, transport, auctions)

not clear 11 (up from 2 in 2015)

1 Fertiliser support programme

3 26

Indicator 1.2.3 Number men and women from producer groups hold a decision making position in relevant policy making processes

10% of total participants (e.g. 2/20 participants)

15 (4 Women) 10% representation on Alliance board of directors

N/A 35 men and 25 women

0 (Still indirect representation only)

12 (7/12 women)

Not clear 10 (one woman & one man from each FFPO)

3 FFPO representatives (2 male 1 female) participating at 2 ward development committees

N/A 28

Outcome 2 Producers are organized for business

Output 2.1 Producer organizations know about business and can access finance.

Indicator 2.1.1: Perception of improved ability to access markets

Progress in honey, cocoa, coffee, acai, plus other products

Progress in livestock, fish, NTFPs, honey, timber and ecotourism

Progress in delivering 11 business development tools to 7 enterprises in Alliance SME network

Progress in timber, tree nursery, honey, bamboo, irish potato

Progress in cassava, rice, vegetables, livestock, and small tree crops

Progress in bamboo, rattan, elephant foot yam, timber, fish-farming

Progress cardomon, honey, charcoal and woven grass (26 enterprise groups)

Progress in Tuna craft, bamboo furni-ture and textile

Progress in timber, cinnamon, star anise, tea

Progress in basket making, honey, charcoal and thatched grass

0 Strong progress in all but Liberia

Indicator 2.1.2: # of sustainable business plans developed by POs

20 business plans from 28 in total (from 13 in 2014)

3 but 80 CF people trained in MA&D

4 business plans implemented, 1 securing loan from bank

12 develop-ed 10 imple-mented, 1 with secured external grant

10 business plans developed 3 being implemented.

0 26 13 groups in progress

4 business development plans imple-mented

5 business plans developed

0 >103 groups in progress

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Output 2.2 Establishment of services in support of small forest businesses

Indicator 2.2.1: Resources and actors engaged for service provision to Pos

3 BDS (AOPEB, FAN, CIOEC) and 3 FS (new incentive programs)

7 new (NFPG, NEA, REFESSA, AGFP, Tumana, Japanteh, Brufut)

1 new for business and advocacy (Alliance member ASORECH);

2 new (Techno-serve, Green Pot Ltd)

2 same as last year (FUN & NACUL

6 support NGOs & Bamboo and Rattan sub-committee of Myanmar Timber Merchant Association

4 3 2 provincial authorities and 9 VNFU facilitators, 3 National level government departments, 1 bank

3 FD, ZNFU & Zambia National Commercial Bank

N/A 32

Indicator 2.2.2: # and type of service providers actively providing services to POs (disaggregated females and males)

2 business and 4 financial service providers

2 organisational support 1 business, 4 technical

3 (ASORECH, 1 business develop-ment consultant & INAB)

6 for production & organisation strenghtening (KFS, county govern-ment, FF-SPAK, We-Effect) and 2 new (Techno-serve, Green Pot Ltd)

2 FUN for MA&D & NACUL for organisational develop-ment and financial manage-met

7 NGO’s 1 timber association

4 (DADO, FNCSI, FNCCI, MEFN)

3 government inst. INAFOR, SEPROD & MEFCCA

9 VNFU field facilitat-ors + Commune People’s commit-ee facilitators; 1 provincial forestry branch

3 (technical and business support from ZNFU &FD, organisation capacity building WeEffect)

N/A 30

Output 2.3 Experience sharing between producer organizations in-country

Indicator 2.3.1: # of exchange visits taking place involving each country

3 exchanges in 2016

4 10 national exchanges (2 involving FFPO’s from Central America) focusing on production and markets; 1 exchange focusing on communication

12 2 exchanges – to the Gambia (FFF) and Sierra Leone (VGGT)

1 local, 1 national 1 international exchange to Thailand

3 district level exchanges

2 national exchange visits & 1 international to Guatemala

2 International exchanges to Thailand and Phillippines

3 (1 national exchange between Mwiniluga and Choma districts; 2 international exchanges to Kenya & Uganda)

21

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Total

Indicator 2.3.2: # practices, designs, plans and systems adopted following exchange visits

Changes to Cacao and tropical forest fruit AF systems

5 changes to fish farming and incense production

11 adopted practices

3 in value addition, 3 in marketing, 1 in product-ion

Not yet 2 (timber production, processing)

2 changes to cardamom and charcoal

20 new designs adopted for tuno handi-craft and bamboo

5 (1 plan to build treebank; 1 chain of custody system for FSC wood; 3 organic production and business for cinnamon and star anise)

3 identification of charcoal hotspots, group lending systems, value addition

N/A 17

Outcome 3 Cross-sectorial policy coordination for sustainable forest and farm management

Output 3.1 Establishment and coordination of multi-sectorial policy platforms

Indicator 3.1.1: # of fora established and or strengthened at country and regional levels.

1 (regional to discuss PGIBT) plus several one off meetings

1 Platform 6 regional task forces

3 thematic multi sectoral platforms at national level, linking forests with economy, energy and food security

6 county level platform established (product based asociations)

1 (NFLF) 2 (CFNWG & CFPN)

4 platforms (1 national 3 district) 3 producer networks

1 SEPROD at regional level

17 regional round-ables and focus group discussion); 2 advisory committee meetings

3 ward developpment committees

N/A 37

Indicator 3.1.2: nature and level of representation of FFPOs groups (female and male members) in key platforms

10 indigenous groups

40% women Strong for Probosque Law but for inter-sectoral platforms participat-ion is low

44% women, 30% youth

250 participants in 8 meetings, FUN & NACUL participating

0 (indirect through ECCDI)

17 (2 at national and 15 at district level)

N/A 71 FFPO representatives at round-tables (19 female 49 male)

4 selected in leadership positions

N/A >20 (30-40% women)

Indicator 3.1.3: # decisions reflecting FFPO presence and inputs

Territorial plans for 5 years for ten communities

2 CF reps in tech. advisory committee, ANR policy review

3 out of 3 regulations concerning REDD+ safeguards (1), & incentives programme

N/A 1 NFLF Strategic Roadmap for 2017-2020

1 CFI review and update successful

5 issues of progress reported

1 Draft Forest Incentives Strategy (INAFOR)

10 policy rulings in favour of FFPOs following round-tables

Not yet 19

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Total

Budgets (2)

Output 3.2 Increased information sharing results in improved understanding and better policies for producer organisations

Indicator 3.2.1: Level of increase in understanding of POs participants in platforms of how government operates

Territorial planning manual approved and shared

Strong (50-60% adherence to standards)

Strong Strong – FF-SPAK participated in 3 policy drafting and review meet-ings

Medium Direct represent-ation agreed but not yet put into action

Strong Not clear Strong Improving Improving

Indicator 3.2.2: # of new networks/contacts that results in new opportunities for POs

4 honey, acai, cacao and coffee networks plus regional exchanges

3 food processors, NACOFAG, FBOs in Ag.

1 new SME network of Alliance members -; 2 business opportunit-ies identified through ASORECH; 4 SME’s participate in timber processing internship

1 Forest Management Trust Fund; new partnership with service provider Techno-serve

9 new networks identified with potential opportunities for PO’s

1 the Community Forestry Practition-ers Network (CFPN)

5 district networks on policy, plus multiple FNCSI contacts

1 partner-ship between INAFOR, MECCFASEBROD and women FFPOs under FFF

6 RECOFTC, UN REDD, WE EFFECT, Nam Dinh, IUCN, ICRAF

2 Zambia National Commercial Bank and National Honey Council

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Outcome 4 National and global agendas are informed about the priorities of local producers

Output 4.1 Organizations representing local producers influence global processes.

Indicator 4.1.1: # of strategies and mechanisms for

3 – AOPEB and CIOEC into REAF of

2 COFO and REFACOF

1 strategy for Alianza plus processes

1 FF-SPAK communication strategy

2 FFF Communication strategy

N/A 1 AFA exchange in

0 2 Asia Pacific Forest Week in Phillippines &

1 African Farm Forest Conference

5 (UNFCC, COP20, 21, Mexico,

17

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Total

representative planning and advocacy regionally / globally

Mercosur, COPACAO into Int. Cong. Of Coops in Canada

linked to REDD, FLEGT, territorial management (unchanged from 2015)

developed with PO’s; Rethinking Liberia Forest Conferen-ce

Thailand Asian FFPO meeting in Thailand

Africa FPPOs, WFC, ACFN, UNFF)

Indicator 4.1.2: Extent of reporting back from regional and global levels to constituencies at national and local levels

1 – Strong – with direct finance resulting

Strong (4 times a year)

Medium- processes are complex and communication channels needs improving

Strong Medium N/A Strong – exchange learning reporting process

Mediummainly report- back from international exchanges (1/year)

Strong using videos, leaflets, FFF handbook, internet training

Strong in regards to the FD feeding back information to develop charcoal regulation

Strong Strong

Indicator 4.1.3: # of examples where global policies and mechanisms vital to POs are shaped by engagement

Unclear Gambian CF issues into NAP and IFAD

FLEGT, REDD mitigation-adaptation synergies and forest landscape restoration approaches

Unclear Unclear 0 1 CoP through FECOFUN

0 0 0 2 COP21, AFA agenda

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Output 4.2 Learning and practices are shared within and between countries and regions, and globally

Indicator 4.2.1: # of FFF targeted communication material and outreach activities

2 MA&D, Risk analysis

3 Radio, video and newsletter

10 posters, videos, press releases

N/A 1 radio program & talk show, 1 FFF newsletter and brochure

1 national exchange report

2 brief and video

1 video 7 (2 handbooks, 1 video, 3 news articles, 1 MA&D training material in Vietnamese)

5 (1briefing, 2 case studies, 1 conference report, 1 feasibility study)

5 sets of brief, videos, etc

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Indicator 4.2.2: # and frequency of communication and information sharing and events between POs and countries.

2 Brazil (MINGA) Guatemala (various), Canada (COPRACAO), Amazon (ASICOPTA)

1 Liberia 1 exchange with Nicaragua hosted by Fedecovera at their Rural School of Agrofor-estry

Host for Zambia FFPO exchan-ge visit and 1 joint visit with Zambian FFPO’s to Uganda

2 (Gambia and Sierra Leone)

1 national exchange & 1 internat-ional exchange to Thailand

1 Vietnam 2 international exchan-ges to Guatemala (agroforestry producers & with Indigenous women)

1 Thailand 2 FFPO exchanges to Kenya & Uganda

5 Mexico, Kenya, Myanmar, Philippines, USA

18 Excluding hosts

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Annexe 2: Active Small Grants in 2016 by initiating year, country, purpose, type of organization and outreach

Country and organization Purpose of Grant Type of organization

Outreach nos. of people

Nepal

Grants 2015-2016

Dalit Alliance for Natural Resources (DANAR) Strengthening capacity of the Dalit community in advocacy and business development (Amriso, bamboo) in Nawalparasi.

NGO 51

Center for Policy Analysis and Development (CPAD) Strengthen business capacity of female smallholder producers in Nawalparasi (fish, incense, goats, dairy, vegetables, amriso)

NGO 104

Green Governance Nepal Support local communities through agro-forestry practices in un-used public land in Nawalparasi (Amriso, Sal leaf)

NGO 45

National Farmer Group Federation (NFGF) Strengthen small holder disadvantaged farmers (esp. women) for livelihood improvement in remote villages in Makwanpur District (beekeeping, goats)

FFPO 60

Grants 2016-2017

Pashupati Kailashpuri Community Forest User Group Piple, Chitwan

Bio-briquette enterprise and upgrading business skill among producer group FFPO 346 HH (954 women)

Green Foundation Nepal Strengthening Production and Business Capacity of the Women and Poor Members of Manakamana Gadi, Piple Pokhara and Niureni Community Forest, by Promoting Wooden Handicraft

NGO supporting FFPOs

25 (all women)

Adhar Ekata Mahila Santha, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal Enhance capacity of women producer groups to establish forest and farm based enterprise (cardamom, amrisho and vegetable)

NGO supporting FFPOs

39 (all women)

National Farmer Group Federation (NFGF), Nepal Livelihood improvement of small holder disadvantaged farmers specially women of Belautedada, Manpang VDC of Tanahu District

FFPO 45 (40 women)

Association of Family Forest Owners Nepal (AFFON) Livelihood improvement through agroforestry of the family forest owners of Bharbhanjyang and Bhanu VDC of Tanahu district.

FFPO 30 (7 women)

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The Gambia

Grants 2015-2016

All Gambia Forestry Platform Strengthening the capacity of the secretariat and executives in enterprise development planning to give appropriate services to member CFC

FO 60

Brufut Allatentou Association Promoting horticultural production alongside community forestry CBO 253

Japanteh Society Improved capacity to invest in production of organic manure and tree seedlings. Village group/CBO

25

Aquaculture farmers Association Strengthening aquaculture business skills and support forming regional federation FO 50

Rural Development Organization Support sustainable management of community forests with focus on enhancing business skills NGO 50

Tumana Association for Development (TAD) Increase capacity of community forest management committees and enhance productivity of vegetable growers.

Association of village groups

60

Bureng Adult Literacy Class Strengthening capacity for community forest management plans and NWFP business opportunities for women

CBO 80

Rural Poultry Farmers Association Increased capacity in quality of production and business model. FO 60

Women Against Draught and Hunger in the Sahel (REFESA) Support rural women and youth for NWFP business and market access. NGO 60

Liberia

Grants 2015-2016

National Charcoal Union of Liberia (NACUL) Strengthening of NACUL Capacity and Mobilization of Charcoal Producers in Grand Cape Mount County

NGO 598 (140 women)

Grants2016-2017

National Charcoal Union of Liberia (NACUL) Strengthening of NACUL Capacity and Mobilization of Charcoal Producers in Margibi County NGO 1350 (498 women)

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Myanmar

Grants 2015-2016

Ecosystem Conservation and Community Development Initiative (ECCDI)

Establishment of community forest products producer association and strengthening community forestry enterprises in Southern Shan State

NGO: Supporting FFPOs

300+

Myanmar Ceramic Society Establishment of Township-level Association of Wood and Ceramics Producers' Groups in Nyaungshwe (ETA)

NGO Supporting FFPOs

100+

Ar Yone Oo- Social Development Association Promoting Rural Livelihoods through Community Forestry in Chin State of Myanmar NGO Supporting FFPOs

100+

Grant 2016 - 2017

Community Forest Products Producer Association-Kyeintali Township (CFPPA-Kyeintali) Southern Rakhine, Myanmar

To alleviate the poverty through income generation by selling locally made marketable bamboo products

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-East Meinmahla Bogalay Township, Ayeyarwaddy Region, Myanmar

Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in East Meinmahla, Bogalay Township

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Pinlaung Southern-Shan State, Myanmar Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in Pinlaung Township, Paung Laung region

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Alechaung Ywa Ngan Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

Improved forest products-based business development in Alechaung Village, Ywa Ngan township by raising 50% the profit within 6 months through selling coffee as a value-added product

FFPO 100+

CFPPA - Kyeintali-1 Gwa Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar To generate the income of CFPPA members from Nippa palm by making marketable roofing FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Naung Bo Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

To raise the income of CFPPA's members through developing the livelihoods based business in Naung Bo Village, Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern Shan State

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Wartayar Pintaya Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

To increase income within 6 month in 30% by selling value-added bamboo products from CFPPA-Wartayar's members

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Dalapin Ywangan Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in Dalapin Village, Ywangan Township

FFPO 100+

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CFPPA-Myinkyadoe Village Ywangan Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in Myinkyadoe Village, Ywangan Township by getting more price in 50% within one year by selling coffee and local products from CFPPA's members

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Nyaung Wun Village Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in Nyaung Wun Village, Nyaung Shwe Township through increase the productivity of crops in 50% by giving a loan for CFPPA's member in Nyaung Wun Village

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Yagyi Ywangan Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in Yagyi village through value-added green tea making

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Kyauk Taing Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

Raise the income of CFPPA's members through developing the livelihoods based business in Kyauk Taing Village, Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern Shan State

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Nadaungkya Village Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

Community Forest Products Producer Association-Nadaungkya Village (CFPPA-Nadaungkya Village) Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Pwe Hla Village Pindaya Township, Southern-Shan State, Myanmar

Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in Pwe Hla Village, Pintaya Township and to get the seedlings with relatively low price and adequate amount in Pwe Hla Village for livelihood development and sustainability of community forest

FFPO 100+

CFPPA-Chinsu, Gwa Township, Southern-Rakhine State, Myanmar Improved and demonstrated forest products-based business development in Chinsu village through the conservation and rehabilitation of surrounding forest, practicing

FFPO 100+

Guatemala

Grants 2015 - 2016

Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) Fortalecer las capacidades técnicas, legales e institucionales de las organizaciones comunitarias que trabajan con productos Forestales maderables y no maderables dentro del departamento de Peten, bajo el marco de ACOFOP

FFPO 100+

FEDECOVERA Fortalecer las capacidades empresariales y productivas de las organizaciones de productores para ejecutar emprendimientos y realizar negocios rurales agro-forestales, con énfasis en los encadenamientos de valor

FFPO 300+

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Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) Fortalecer las capacidades técnicas, administrativas y comerciales de las organizaciones comunitarias que trabajan con productos forestales maderables y no maderables, en el departamento de Petén, bajo el marco de ACOFOP

FFPO 300+

Grants 2016 - 2017

Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP) Fortalecer las capacidades técnicas, administrativas y comerciales de las organizaciones comunitarias que trabajan con productos forestales maderables y no maderables, en el departamento de Petén, bajo el marco de ACOFOP

FFPO 300+

Bolivia

Grants 2015 - 2016

Asociación de Grupos Mancomunados de Trabajo MINGA Fortalecimiento de las capacidades organizacionales de MINGA para la gestión integral del bosque y los sistemas de vida

FFPO 1.400 families (6.300 persons)

Coordinadora Interinstitucional de Organizaciones Económicas Campesinas de Bolivia (CIOEC)

Fortalecimiento de las capacidades organizacionales de la CIOEC Bolivia y a través de la CIOEC de Pando para que ésta logre legitimar a las OECAs del departamento

FFPO 370

Asociación Nacional de Productores de Café (ANPROCA) Fortalecimiento organizacional de ANPROCA para lograr incidir en la Política Nacional del Café del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia.

FFPO 250

Asociación de Productores de Miel de San Ignacio de Velasco (APROVE)

Fortalecimiento de APROVE para que contribuyan activamente a la Seguridad Alimentaria de la población escolar urbana y conservación de Bosques

FFPO 70

Cooperativa Integral Agroestractivista Campesinos de Pando (COINACAPA)

Fortalecimiento de la Cooperativa COINACAPA, para mejorar los producción y comercialización de castaña orgánica, otorgar servicios a sus asociados

FFPO 205

Asociación Integral de Cosechadores, Productores y Transformadores de frutos del Abuná ASICOPTA/FAN (Pando)

Fortalecimiento de capacidades de ASICOPTA para mejora en el procesamiento de frutos amazónicos

FFPO 35

Kenya

Grants 2015 - 2016

Beyond 1 Billion Trees Mau Women CBO Empowerment of B1B CBO women for development through capacity building on collective marketing of tree seedlings and strengthening of Nakuru tree Nurseries Association

CBO 100+

Community food and environmental group Enhancing Capacities of COFEG and the Nakuru Tree Nurseries Association for food security, environmental conservation and income generation

FFPO 100+

Junction Bamboo Tree Nursery &Conservation Group Building the Capacities of Junction Bamboo Group members to Produce and Market Tree Nursery Products and strengthen Nakuru Tree Nursery County Association

FFPO 200+

88

Lake Elementaita Self Help Group Strengthening capacities of Lake Elementaita Self Help Group and the Nakuru Tree Nursery Association

FFPO 1200+

Lariak community forest association Enhancement of capacities of Lariak CFA in High Value Fruit Tree Nurseries management and Formation of Laikipia Tree Nursery Association

FFPO 100+

Laikipia Livestock Marketing Association Strengthening capacities of LLMA in Honey production and Marketing and Formation of Laikipia Honey Producers Association

FFPO 100+

Marura Environmental Conservation Community Based Organization

Strengthening capacities of Marura Environmental Conservation CBO and Establishment of a product based Association

CBO 100+

Menengai Crater Bee Keepers FFPO 100+

Nettle World Group Building the Capacity of Nettle WorldGroup on production of Stinging Nettle and Sandal wood and Formation of a marketing Association

FFPO 50+

Shamanek Community Forest Association Cpacity building in Beekeeping and tree Nursery Enterprise Establishment for Shamanek CFA and Formation of a Product Based Association

FFPO 100+

Tumaini Mwangaza Investment Self Help Group Establishment of a Smallholder Timber Enterprise Project (STEP) for Improved Incomes through Collective Learning and Marketing of Timber and Associated Products

FFPO 50+

Yaaku Cultural Group Building the capacities of Yaaku Cultural Group in Honey and Poultry production and Establishing a Product Based Association

CBO 50+

Grants 2016-2017

Nakuru County Tree Nursery Association (NCTNA) Capacity development of tree nursery operators in Nakuru County for improved seed quality and certification.

FFPO 100+

Nakuru Smallholder Timber Association (NASTA) Capacity development of smallholder timber producers in Nakuru County for certification and access to better markets

FFPO 100+

Nakuru Smallholder Fruit Producers Association (NASFPA) Capacity Development of smallholder fruit producer groups in Nakuru County for enhanced incomes and Food security

FFPO 100+

Laikipia Smallholder Tree and Fruit Production Association Capacity development of smallholder fruit growers to produce and market quality products FFPO 100+

Laikipia Organic Farmers Association Capacity development of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) producers in Laikipia to increase productivity and access better markets

FFPO 100+

89

Vietnam

Grants 2016-early 2017

Vietnam National Farmers Union Cinnamon group in Dao Thinh Commune, Tran Yen District, Yen Bai

Acacia group in Phu Thinh Commune, Yen Binh District, Yen Bai

Magnolia group in Chu Huong Commune, Ba Be District, Bac Kan Province

Star anise group in Chu Huong Commune, Ba Be District, Bac Kan Province

Magnolia group in Dao Thinh Commune, Ba Be District, Bac Kan Province FFPO 84 (44 women)

Zambia

Grants 2016-2017

Kayama Multi-Purpose co-operative Society Limited, Mwinilunga Institutional strengthening of Kanyama cooperative for business and natural resources management

FFPO 16 (5 women)

Chibwika development Trust (CDT), Mwinilunga Honey Bulking centre CBO 18 (7women)

Choma District Forest Office Enhancing tree nursery business in Choma Local Gov. 13 (7women)

Kalonda Agroforestry and Beekeeping Association, Choma Honey Bulking centre FFPO 35 (14 women)

Mboole Rural Development initiative (MRDI), Choma Mboole response to climate change CBO 65 (30 women)

90

Annexe 3: List of LoAs

Project Symbol

Country Provider Title Date of signature

Pillars Type of LoA Provider type Amount US$

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Asociación de Organizaciones de Productores Ecológicos de Bolivia (AOPEB)

Diseno de una planta industrial beneficiadora de castana en el nunicipio de Porvenir -Pando

PILLAR1 PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT

PRODUCER_GROUP_NATIONAL

19,870

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Asociación de Organizaciones de Productores Ecológicos de Bolivia (AOPEB)

Fortalecimento a la AOPEB hacia la prestación de servicios para la ampliación de su membresia y su auto sostenibilidad financiera.

21/07/2016



66,647

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL MINGA Fortalecimiento a MINGA PILLAR1 PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT

PRODUCER_GROUP_LOCAL

510

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL MINGA ACCRUAL lLoA 2015 PILLAR1 PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT


(3,659)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Asociación Nacional de Productores de Café Fortalecimiento organizacional de la Asociación Nacional de Productores de Café para lograr incidir en la Política Nacional del Café del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia

29/07/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT PRODUCER_GROUP_NATIONAL

50,341

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Asociación de Apicultores de la Provincia Velasco

Fortalecimiento dela Asociación de Apicultores de la Provincia Velazco para que contribuyan activamente a la Seguridad Alimentaria de la población escolar urbana y conservación de Bosques, a través de la actividad apícola en el Municipio de San Ignacio de Velasco

15/02/2016



29,126

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Cooperativa Integral Agro-extractivista Campesinos de Pando

Fortalecimiento de la Cooperativa COINACAPA Ltda., para mejorar los procesos de beneficiado y comercialización de castaña orgánica, otorgar servicios de asistencia técnica a sus asociados y contribuir a la conservación del bosque Amazónico, en los Municipio de Porvenir, Filadelfia, Bolpebra, Santa Rosa, Blanca Flor e Ixiamas.

27/05/2016



32,517

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza “Fortalecimiento de capacidades de la Asociación Integral de Cosechadores, Productores y Transformadores de

22/09/2016

PILLAR1, PILLAR2

PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT


29,683

91

frutos del Abuná, para la consolidación de la Planta de procesamiento en 1ro de Mayo, en el municipio de Santa Rosa, departamento de Pando”

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Coordinadora de Integ. De Org Economica Camp (CIOEC)

Diff. in LoA payment amount 01/01/2016

(563)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

BOL Central de Cooperativas del CEIBO LTDA ACCRUAL from LoA 2015 (9)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB Department of Forestry (Gambia) Expansion and consolidationof Community Forests Management in 6 regiohns of the Gambia


GOVERNMENT_COORDINATION

17,885

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB National Farmers Platform of the Gambia “Forest and Farm Facility support to strengthen Producer Organizations in the Gambia for business/livelihoods and policy engagement”

Invalid date

PILLAR1, PILLAR3



2,451

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB National Farmers Platform of the Gambia “Forest and Farm Facility support to strengthen Producer Organizations in the Gambia for business/livelihoods and policy engagement”

Invalid date

PILLAR1, PILLAR3



84,136

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB National Farmers Platform of the Gambia Accrual of LoA 2015 (40,412)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB Brufut Allatentou Associaation Accrual of LoA 2015 (254)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB Japaneth Society Accrual of LoA 2015 (76)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB Rural Development Organization Accrual of LoA 2015 (82)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB Tumana Association for Development (TAD) Diff of LoA 2015 (59)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GMB Bureng Adult Literacy Invoice Adjustment (165)

GCP/GLO/812/GER

GMB Network ctivities Group (NAG) Invoice Adjustment (2,000)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GTM Federación de Cooperativas de las verapaces, Responsabilidad Limitada

LoA firmada con FEDECOVERA PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT PRODUCER_GROUP_LOCAL

382

92

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GTM Rural Poultry Farmers Association Remaining amount reimburrsed (284)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GTM RAFESA Association Remaining amount reimburrsed (83)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GTM Asociación de Foresteria Comunitaria de Guatelama UTZ CHE

Servicios técnicos a la Alianza Nacional de Organizaciones Forestales Comunitarias de Guatemala para la implementación de la Estrategia de Comunicación



17

GCP/GLO/495/MUL


Difference in LoA payment PILLAR3 PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT


(365)

GCP/GLO/812/GER


Fortalecimiento de las organizaciones comunitarias

Jun-16 PILLAR3 PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT


15,098

GCP/GLO/812/GER


Servicios técnicos a la Alianza Nacional Jul-16 PILLAR1 PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT


15,141

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

GTM Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén

Fortalecimento de la presencia politica de la Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques a nivel internacional

Jan-16 PILLAR1 PARTNERSHIP_AGREEMENT


100,000

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN WeEffect Capacity building of FF-SPAK in organisational development and Village Savings and Loans (VS & L) tool for smallholder producer organisations

15/08/2016


NGO 29,557

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Shamanek Community Forest Association Capacity building in Beekeeping and tree Nursery Enterprise Establishment for Shamanek CFA and Formation of a Product Based Association

25/01/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT PRODUCER_GROUP_LOCAL

4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Nettle World Group Building the Capacity of Nettle World Group on production of Stinging Nettle and Sandal wood and Formation of a marketing Association

25/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Lake Elementaita Self Help Group Strengthening capacities of Lake Elementaita Self Help Group and the Nakuru Tree Nursery Association

26/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Kenya Forestry Service Institutional support to Kenya Forest Service to catalyze national and County level cross sect-oral platforms to enhance participation of Forest and Farm Producer Organisations (FFPOS) in Policy dialogue in Kenya.

29/01/2016

PILLAR1, PILLAR2, PILLAR3

SMALL_GRANT GOVERNMENT_COORDINATION

39,299

93

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Laikipia Livestock Marketing Association Strengthening capacities of LLMA in Honey production and Marketing and Formation of Laikipia Honey Producers Association

25/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya

Support to capacity Development of FF-SPAK to upscale their operations at National Level and to two additional counties.

Invalid date



75,832

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Beyond 1 Billion Trees Mau Women CBO Empowerment of B1B CBO women for development through capacity building on collective marketing of tree seedlings and strengthening of Nakuru tree Nurseries Association

24/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Yaaku Cultural Group Building the capacities of Yaaku Cultural Group in Honey and Poultry production and Establishing a Product Based Association

25/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Marura Environmental Conservation community Based Organization

Strengthening capacities of Marura Environmental Conservation CBO and Establishment of a product based Association

25/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Lariak Community Forest Association Enhancement of capacities of Lariak CFA in High Value Fruit Tree Nurseries management and Formation of Laikipia Tree Nursery Association

25/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Tumaini Mwangaza Investment Self Help Group

Establishment of a Smallholder Timber Enterprise Project (STEP) for Improved Incomes through Collective Learning and Marketing of Timber and Associated Products

26/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Menengai Crater Bee Keeper Strengthening the capacities of Menengai Bee Crater Bee Keepers Group and Formation of a product Based Association

26/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Junction Bamboo Tree Nursery & Conservation Group

Building the Capacities of Junction Bamboo Group members to Produce and Market Tree Nursery Products and strengthen Nakuru Tree Nursery County Association

26/01/2016


4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN Community Food and Environment Group Enhancing Capacities of COFEG and the Nakuru Tree Nurseries Association for food security, environmental conservation and income generation

26/01/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT 4,888

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN NAKURU Smallholder Fruit Producers Association (NASFPA)

Capacity Development of smallholder fruit producer groups in Nakuru County for enhanced incomes and Food security

28/12/2016


9,758

94

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN NAKURU County Tree Nurseries Association (NCTNA)

Capacity development of tree nursery operators in Nakuru County for improved seed quality and certification.

28/12/2016


9,758

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN NAKURU Smallholder Timber Association (NASTA)

Capacity development of smallholder timber producers in Nakuru County for certification and access to better markets

28/12/2016


9,758

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN LAIKIPIA Smallholders Tree and Fruits Producer Organization (LSTFPA)

Capacity development of smallholder fruit growers to produce and market quality products”

28/12/2016


9,758

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN LAIKIPIA Organic Farmers Association (LOFA) Capacity development of smallholder fruit growers to produce and market quality products”


9,758

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN K.F..S LoA 2014 Remaining amount reimburrsed (439)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

KEN FF SPAK Remaining amount reimburrsed (7,064)

GCP/GLO/812/GER

LBR National Charcoal Union of Liberia (NACUL) Strengthening of NACUL Capacity and Mobilization of Charcoal Producers in Margibi County

10,500

GCP/GLO/812/GER

LBR Community Youth Network Program Developing FFF Communication Strategy

11/01/2016

PILLAR1, PILLAR2


NGO 14,650

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

LBR National Charcoal Union of Liberia (NACUL) Strengthening of NACUL Capacity and Mobilization of Charcoal Producers in Margibi County

23/06/2016

PILLAR1, PILLAR2, PILLAR3


NGO 24,500

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

MMR Ar Yone Oo- Social Development Association Promoting Rural Livelihoods through Community Forestry in Chin State of Myanmar

28/01/2016


NGO 15,000

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

MMR Myanmar Ceramic Society Establishment of Township-level Association of Wood and Ceramics Producers’ Groups in Nyaungshwe (ETA)

28/01/2016


NGO 12,700

GCP/GLO/812/GER

MMR Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation-conservation Network

Establishment of National Level Community Forestry Practitioner Network through the support to MERN for strengthening the Community Forestry National Working Group of Myanmar (CFNWG)”

16/06/2016


NGO 30,000

GCP/GLO/495/MUL


Strengthening Community Forestry National Working Group

01/12/2016


NGO 24,850

95

GCP/GLO/812/GER


Strengthening Community Forestry National Working Group

01/01/2016


NGO (24,850)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NIC Instituto Nacional Forestal Implementar el Eje de trabajo 2016 Agroforestería y Foresteria Comunitaria

19/07/2016


GOVERNMENT_COORDINATION

48,915

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NIC Universidad Nacional Agraria 1) Curso especializado para servidores públicos territoriales en Sistemas Agroforestales. 2) Curso entrenamiento en Gerencia y Contabilidad básica para protagonistas de empresas forestales comunitarias


UNIVERSITY 8,728

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NIC URACCAN SIUNA 1) Curso especializado para servidores públicos territoriales en Sistemas Agroforestales. 2) Curso entrenamiento en Gerencia y Contabilidad básica para protagonistas de empresas forestales comunitarias


UNIVERSITY 7,828

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NIC Bluefields Indian & Caribbean University 1) Curso especializado para servidores públicos territoriales en Sistemas Agroforestales. 2) Curso entrenamiento en Gerencia y Contabilidad básica para protagonistas de empresas forestales comunitarias


UNIVERSITY 8,663

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL Shree Pashupati Kailashpuri Community Forest User Group

Livelihood enhancement through setting of bio-briquette enterprise and upgrading business skill among producer group

18/08/2016


12,000

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL Association of Family Forest Owners Nepal Livelihood improvement of the family forest owners of Bharbhanjyang and Bhanu VDC of Tanahu district from Agroforestry

16/08/2016


11,490

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL National Farmer Group Federation (NFGF) Nepal

Livelihood improvement of small holder disadvantaged farmers specially women of Belautedada, Manpang VDC of Tanahu District

16/08/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT FFPO 13,786

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL National Farmer Group Federation (NFGF) Nepal

Remaining amount reimburrsed 16/08/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT FFPO (8)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL Adhar Ekata Mahila Santha Enhance capacity of women producer groups to establish forest and farm based enterprise (cardamom, amrisho and vegetable).

16/08/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT NGO 11,951

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL Green Foundation Nepal Strengthening Production and Business Capacity of the Women and Poor Members of Manakamana Gadi, Piple Pokhara and Niureni Community

16/08/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT NGO 10,500

96

Forest, by Promoting Wooden Handicraft

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL Green Governance Nepal Remaining amount reimburrsed 01/09/2016

(101)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries

Enhance the capacity of both the farmers and their organizations to improve their economic activities

29/11/2016



63,997

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)


(271)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

NPL International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)


(13,439)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

International Institute for Environment and Development

Learning and Knowledge Generation Component of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF)

19/04/2016


NGO 199,592

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development

Strengthening engagement of Asian small scale women and men forests and farm producers at the Asia Pacific Forestry Week (APFW)

17/03/2016



36,026

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development

Strengthening Capacities of Farm and Forest Organizations in Networking and in Evidence Based Advocacy

27/05/2016



99,430

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Regional Community Forestry Training Center (RECOFTC)

Planning and hosting a regional conference and an exchange visit of forest and farm producers from Vietnam, Nepal and Myanmar to Thailand

18/12/2016


NGO 17,566

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

The Zambia National Farmers Union Strengthening Forest and Farm Peroducers for Business/Livelihoods and Police Engagement

01/01/2016



10,489

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests

Promotion of women's leadership and advocacy for the inclusion of gender and women's interests in sustainable management policies and mechanisms of forests and farms in Cameroon, The Gambia and Liberia

21/03/2016


NGO/PRODUCER_GROUP REGIONAL

89,696

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

The International Family Forestry Alliance Strengthening national small holder organisations, international networks and alliances – Part 2

10/05/2016

PILLAR3 NGO/PRODUCER_GROUP REGIONAL

120,000

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

IFFA ACCRUAL of LoA 2014 (163)

97

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Network ctivities Group (NAG) ACCRUAL of LoA 2013 (771)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén (ACOFOP)

ACCRUAL of LoA 2015 (1,488)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Audiovisuoal support July 2016 222

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Office Moves 153

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

Office of Director

Audiovisual Support 217

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union ACCRUAL of LoA 2014 (3,142)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union ACCRUAL of LoA 2014 (621)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union CARRY FORWARD of LoA 2015 Implementing workplan 2015 of the Forest and Farm Facility in Vietnam

63

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union ACCRUAL OF Loa 2015 (733)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL


GCP/GLO/495/MUL


GCP/GLO/495/MUL


VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union Cross-sectoral coordination and collaboration for sustainable forest and farm management operating at local levels

Invalid date



23,740

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union Implementing Pillar 2 of work plan 2016 of the Forest and Farm Facility in Vietnam

31/05/2016

PILLAR1, PILLAR2



40,340

98

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union Supporting enterprise development demonstration projects in Yen Bai and Bac Kan Province, Vietnam

12/01/2016

PILLAR1 SMALL_GRANT PRODUCER_GROUP_NATIONAL

60,521

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union Implementing Workplan 2016 Pillar: Strengthening Producer Organizations for Business and Policy enegments in the FFF In Vietnam



99,827

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

VNM The Vietnam Farmers' Union Proposal writing training for forest and farm producer organizations in Yen Bai and Bac Kan



8,588

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

ZAM KANYAMA Multu Purpose Cooperative Institutional Strengthening of Kanyama Cooperative for Business and Natural Resources Mgmnt

01/10/2016


8,459

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

ZAM KALONDA Agroforetry and Beekepers Association

Organizational and Entreprenurial Strengthening

01/10/2016


8,398

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

ZAM CHIBWIKA Chiefdom Development Trust Honey Bulking Centre 01/10/2016


8,682

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

ZAM The Zambia National Farmers Union Reimbursement of LoA 2015 01/11/2016


(42,086)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

ZAM Zambia Forestry Action Programme Forestry Department

Reimbursement of LoA 2015 01/01/2016


(1,054)

GCP/GLO/495/MUL

ZAM Ministry of Lands Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (Zambia)

Enhancing Tree Nursery Business in Choma

01/10/2016

PILLAR1 GOV_LOCAL 8,692

1,742,260.62

1751168.26

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