1. FOREST GOVERANCE AND FLEGT MASTERCLASS
Francesca Marzatico Ph.D., Palladium LTD
Sandra Thain, EFI
Art Blundell, Forest Trends
“2017 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY”
Washington DC, March 2017

2. Overview Aim of the master class Introduction: What is FELGT
FLEGT approach and long term goals
Strengths and limitations
FLEGT and VPAs
Lessons learned
Group discussion on FLEGT peace and poverty

3. Aim of the master class
Inform about the FLEGT its strengths and limitations while discussing its contribution to security of tenure and poverty reduction as well as to the peace-building process in countries where it operates. This master class also aims at supporting lessons learned that can be used in other sectors.

4. FLEGT facts & figures Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade
When: 2003 EU's FLEGT Action Plan
Why: To reduce illegal logging
How: - Strengthen sustainable and legal forest management
- improve governance and
- promote trade in legally produced timber

5. EU Action Plan SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
Sets out a range of measures available to the EU and its member states to tackle illegal logging in the world's forests
prevent the import of illegal timber into the EU
improve the supply of legal timber
increase demand for timber from responsibly managed forests
SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

6. Measures: How?
Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) are bilateral treaties between the EU and individual timber exporting companies outside the EU. VPAs ensure that timber and timber products exported to the EU come from legal sources. FLEGT licences as automatically meeting the requirements of the EU Timber Regulation.
The EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) prohibits EU companies from placing illegal timber and timber products on the EU market. It requires due diligence procedures to ensure legality of timber supplies. EU Member States to check on company performance and punish non-compliance

7. EU Action Plan long term aim
Promote fair solutions to illegal logging in timber-producing countries
Promote trade in legal timber(VPAs)
Promote public procurement policies (guidance on how to deal with legality)
Support private sector initiatives (codes of conduct)
Safeguard financing and investment (due care procedures institutions investing in forest sector)
Use existing or new legislation to support the Action Plan (EUTR)
Address the problem of conflict timber

8. History of FLEGT Failure of forest sector governance and markets
Governance (State ownership; Collusion of interests)
Markets (contamination of legal and illegal timber)
Consequences
Indiscriminate exploitation of tropical forests
Environmental degradation
Loss of livelihoods and revenues
Solutions
Technological (forest management planning) and administrative (reorganization/restructuring)
Purely market-based solutions (Certification)
Stakeholder-driven market-based solutions (FLEGT)

9. Why is FLEGT different? Locally-centred and politically-smart approach
Deliberations of national stakeholders
Locally owned
Adapting/adjusting to dynamics
Long-term goals aimed at producing an effective change
Complexity of issues and resistance of vested interests
EU participation through legally-binding treaty
Designing legality assurance has impact on governance
Link to land rights and poverty impact

10. FLEGT Limitations
Need for underlying governance reform: VPAs may not succeed without a broader climate of reform
Focus on technological solutions instead of deliberative process
Possible negative impact on small operators
Lengthy process: hard test for stakeholders’ patience
Changing trade patterns
Not addressing deforestation

11. Why still FLEGT?
Support to long term goal of forest governance and dialogue within the country

12. Group discussion
Groups will discuss for 20 minutes the following questions:
How can FLEGT contribute to security of tenure and poverty reduction
How can FLEGT contribute to the peace-building process
Each group appoints a rapporteur who will report in plenary. Report in plenary 5 minutes per group.

13. THANK YOU!