1 Sustainable Forest Management Community Partnership7th National Workshop on Sustainable Forest Management through Community Partnership Lucknow 15-16 April, 2015 Rajive Kumar, Chief Project Director
2 Brief on Uttar Pradesh Participatory Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation Project
3 PROJECT PHILOSOPHY Notification of the JFM area JFMC SHGForest Department PARTNERSHIP FOREST USER GROUP Non-Natural Resource base JFMC SHG Natural Resource base Micro-Planning Forest Resource base (NWFP) Participatory M&E (Social Audits)
4 UPPFMPAP- PROJECT AREA
5 PROJECT GOALS Participatory rehabilitation and management of degraded forests Enhancement of livelihood of local people
6 PROJECT OBJECTIVES To restore degraded forest and to augment forest resources To secure sustainable forest management by improving Forest administration, Community organization and other stake holders To conserve and better manage the wild life To improve the income of target forest dependents and their livelihood options
7 PROJECT COMPONENTS Participatory WorksInstitutional Strengthening of PMU/DMUs/FMUs Capacity Building of NGO/JFMC/EDC/SHG JFMC/EDC Community Development and Livelihood Improvement Departmental Forest Development and Management JFM Forest Development and Management Wildlife Conservation and Management Survey and Research Communication and Publication Monitoring and Evaluation Phase-out/phase-in Works Consulting Services
8 PROJECT COMPONENTS Preparatory Work Supporting Comp. Main ComponentInstitutional Arrangement Soil Survey Site Selection Demarcation, Survey & Mapping Preparation of Guidelines, Manuals & Handbook Supporting Comp. Main Component Supporting Comp. Forest Area Development (JFM Mode) Institutional Strengthening Survey & Research Forest Area Development (Non-JFM Mode) Capacity Building of JFMC/EDC/SHG Communication & Publication Wildlife Conservation & Management CHILDREN FOREST PROGRAMME Community Development & Livelihood Improvement Monitoring and Evaluation Phase-out/Phase-in Work Consulting Services
9 INSTITUTIONAL LINKAGESEMPOWERED COMMITTEE Chairperson: Chief Secretary Finance Department Fund Through Budgetary allocation Advise PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT (PMU) (Autonomous registered society) Governing Body Chairperson: PS, Forests Vice Chairperson: PCCF (UP) Member Secretary: CPD Forest Department PROJECT CONSULTANT Office of PCCF EXECUTIVE BODY Project Management Unit Chairperson:CPD As grants Oversight responsibility Resource Organisations District Level Project Advisory Committee NGO Zonal Office [CCF] Circle Office [CF] DIVISION MANAGEMENT UNITs Within DFO office Implementing organizations JFMCs EDCs FIELD MANAGEMENT UNIT Within RO office SHGs
10 Key Institutions at Implementation levelForest Department Key Institutions at Implementation level Other Agencies NGO Community JFMC/ EDC SHG Gram Panchayat Line Departments Better Forest Management Increased Livelihoods and Income
11 PROJECT COST & PROJECT PERIODProject Cost: 16,394,000,000/- JPY Loan Component (JICA): 13,345,000,000/- JPY State Share: 3,049,000,000/-JPY Project Period ( Project implementation extended in principle up to Dec. 2017)
12 Project Highlights UP framed JFM Rules way back in year 2002 to empower people residing in and around forest fringes. The UP-PFMPAP takes the credit of amending these Rules in year 2010 to make it more responsive to the people, particularly in terms of benefit sharing arrangement. For the first time in the history of UP Forest Department, 800 village forests notified under JFM rules 2002. Area notified under these rules and shared its management with the community is 1,00,474 ha. JFMCs constituted and registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860 in all 800 village Forests. Except Member Secretary, all other office bearers are elected among FUGs
13 Project Highlights EDCs constituted in 140 villages adjoining the protected areas for involving communities in conservation of flora and fauna. JFMCs/EDCs are responsible for taking decisions and execution of work at village level. High priority for capacity building of communities. Benefit sharing between government and village communities started. Rs. 1,80,000 is given to each village for EPA. Self Help Groups formed and IGA started. 57,921 ha. of village forest area treated till now against a target of 60,300 ha. Drainage line treatments, fire protection and planting of NWFP species given priority.
14 Project Highlights Project initiated the process of ARCDM in 10 Forest Divisions with the assistance of TERI. ARCDM Projects are being developed in village forest through JFMCs. Host country approval has been granted for all 10 Forest Divisions Validation process is going on. PDDs will be shortly submitted to UNFCCC, Bonn. Project provides support for management of 7 protected areas and 2 Biodiversity Hotspots. Eco tourism development has been started at 4 sites. Children Forest Programme initiated initially in 650 schools of 6 districts. Recently programme extended to 350 schools of 7 other districts. Children Eco Awareness programme implemented in 240 schools in the vicinity of 7 protected areas and 2 Biodiversity Hotspots.
15 Other Highlights In house GIS and MIS development.Computerization upto Range level. Development of Dynamic website. InsPIRE Network for Environment are doing third party monitoring and evaluation from socio economic prospective. Third party monitoring and evaluation of forest development and management works by NABCONS. Infrastructure development Compulsory Social Audit.
16 Best Practices To Ensure SustainabilityConserved/Managed Village Forest Empowered/Organized Communities/Women NWFP Development SHG & IGA Activities Participatory Forest Management APNA HAAT Sustainable Income Generated Benefit sharing Protected Wildlife Habitat
17 A bird in the sky does not sing because it wants to win a musical competitionIt sings because it has discovered a freedom song inside its own heart!
18 WORKSHOP PERSPECTIVE
19 JOURNEY SO FAR Six National Workshops held: Bhubaneshwar – Odisha Delhi Udaipur – Rajasthan Bangalore –Karnataka Gandhi Nagar -Gujarat Mahabalipuram- Tamil Nadu And, I thank JICA for continuously encouraging and supporting, and for providing UP such opportunity this time.
20 Why This Topic Forestry has undergone a metamorphosis since the last centuary. Classical Phase Neo-classical Phase People’s participation Partnership approach People involvement in decision making Problems Technical; Solutions Technical Problems Technical; Solutions Technical-cum-Social Solutions People oriented and less Technical
21 Towards Partnership FD FD People People Mistrust Partnership
22 Overview The initiative of JICA to organize such annual event by the states has now become an good example of Cross-learning exercise, A forum to share the innovations and initiative Show-case achievements Discuss issues and bottlenecks and try to get solutions from other projects To meet stakeholders / fellow-colleagues implementing or going to implement JICA projects across the country and other invitees to such events All the workshops have tried to find ways and means to ensure sustainability after project period.
23 PARTICIPANTS JICA Delhi & Tokyo Officials Officers of Govt. of IndiaSenior Officials of 15 States Officers of Govt. of U.P. Experts of PMC, Inspire, NABCONS, TERI, RSAC and other organisations NGOs School Children Members of Print & Electronic Media
24 OBJECTIVE Provide platform to share best practices & experiences amongst JICA project implementing States Share challenges being faced by project implementers Recommendations for Project implementation and future projects. Workshop will go a long way in strengthening Forestry Sector as a whole
25 Glimpse of the ProgrammeThis workshop is a two-days event, and on the third day we have also planned visit to school for Children Forest Programme (optional). After my presentation there is presentation by JICA in this session. We have planned two technical sessions today. Tomorrow three technical sessions before lunch. Post lunch we shall have Group presentations and Valedictory Session
26 THEMES TO BE COVERED Theme-1: Sustainable Forest ManagementTheme-2: Livelihood Security Theme-3: Institutional Strengthening Theme-4: Technology based Monitoring, and Theme-5:Carbon Financing Q& A session after each Technical Session for minutes
27 Theme-1: Sustainable Forest ManagementRajasthan: Sustainable Forest Management through community participation Tamil Nadu: Impact of Soil & Moisture Conservation measures on Forests & Agriculture Punjab: Punjab Afforestation Project Phase I and II- Lessons Learnt West Bengal: Issues & Challenges in SFM
28 Theme-2: Livelihood SecurityTripura: Strengthening Livelihoods, Women Empowerment & Sustainability of SHGs Odisha: Value Addition and Institutional Arrangements for Value Chain Gujarat: Role of Capacity Building/ skill development in sustaining livelihoods
29 Theme-3: Institutional StrengtheningOdisha : Role of NGOs in promoting Community Participation Karnataka: Effectiveness of JFMC/ EDC in protecting the Forests Sikkim: Issues & Challenges in Institutional Strengthening & Way Forward Uttar Pradesh: Empowering Village Forest Institutions- Ways & Means Tamil Nadu: Community Empowerment through Project Interventions
30 Theme-4: Technology based MonitoringMadhya Pradesh: Using Remote Sensing & GIS in Micro-planning RSAC-UP: Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in SFM
31 Theme-5: Carbon FinancingUP & TERI: AR-CDM initiatives in UP & road to REDD+ and field experience on Carbon Financing from Renukoot JICA: JICA initiatives on REDD+ Sri A. K. Bansal: Global Prespective on Forestry Development Projects
32 Group Discussion & PresentationFive groups one for each theme will be formed. Each group will prepare its recommendation and present before the delegates.
33 Thanks for your kind attention!