Participatory Forest Management and REDD+ in Tanzania

Participatory Forest Management and REDD+ in Tanzania

Tanzania's land, local government and forest laws mean that rural communities have well defined rights to own, manage and benefit from forest and woodland resources within their local areas through the establishment of village forests. This ap...

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Main Authors:	Blomley, Tom, Lukumbuzya, Kahana, Brodnig, Gernot
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ACTION PLAN AFFORESTATION AGRICULTURE ASSESSMENT REPORT AWARENESS RAISING BENEFIT SHARING BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIOMASS CARBON CARBON ACCOUNTING CARBON CREDITS CARBON MONITORING CARBON UNITS CATCHMENT CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS CHARCOAL PRODUCTION CLIMATE CO COMMUNITY FOREST DECISION MAKING DRIVERS OF DEFORESTATION ECONOMIC VALUE ECONOMIES OF SCALE ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEMS EMISSION EMISSION REDUCTIONS EMISSIONS EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS FIREWOOD FOREST FOREST ACT FOREST AREA FOREST AREAS FOREST CARBON FOREST CONDITION FOREST CONDITIONS FOREST CONSERVATION FOREST COVER FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST DESTRUCTION FOREST DISTURBANCE FOREST EXTENSION FOREST FUND FOREST GOVERNANCE FOREST HARVESTING FOREST LAND FOREST LANDSCAPES FOREST LAWS FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT OUTCOMES FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS FOREST MANAGERS FOREST MONITORING FOREST OFFICERS FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST PROTECTION FOREST RESERVE FOREST RESERVES FOREST RESOURCES FOREST RESTORATION FOREST SECTOR FOREST SITES FOREST USE FOREST USERS FORESTRY FORESTS GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY HUNTING ILLEGAL LOGGING INTERNATIONAL CARBON MARKETS ISSUES LAND AREA LAND TENURE LAND USE LAND USE PLANNING LANDOWNERSHIP LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE LEVEL LIVESTOCK LOGGING MONTANE FOREST MOUNTAINS NATIONAL ACCOUNTING NATIONAL FOREST RESOURCES NATIONAL PARKS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT NATURAL RESOURCE USE NATURAL RESOURCES NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT NATURE RESERVES NEST OIL OIL PALM PARTICIPATORY FORESTRY PERVERSE INCENTIVES POLICY MAKERS PP PRIVATE FORESTS PRODUCERS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC GOOD RATES OF DEFORESTATION REDUCING EMISSIONS REFORESTATION ROADS RURAL COMMUNITIES SET ASIDE SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT TIMBER TIMBER HARVESTING TOURISM TRADEOFFS TRANSACTION COSTS TREE TREES VILLAGE FOREST VILLAGE FORESTS VILLAGES WILDLIFE WILDLIFE HUNTING WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAS WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS WOODLAND WOODLAND RESOURCES WOODLANDS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/955351468311406705/Participatory-forest-management-and-REDD-plus-in-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27162

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Summary:	Tanzania's land, local government and forest laws mean that rural communities have well defined rights to own, manage and benefit from forest and woodland resources within their local areas through the establishment of village forests. This approach, known by practitioners as Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) results in the legal establishment of village land forest reserves, community forest reserves or private forests. By 2008, 1,460 villages on mainland Tanzania1 were involved in establishing or managing village forests covering a total of over 2.345 million hectares. A further 863 villages are currently involved in Joint Forest Management (JFM) approaches within government forest reserves, in which management responsibilities are shared between government and local communities. 1.78 million hectares of forest reserve under central or local government jurisdiction are now under JFM arrangements. Since 2008, the Tanzanian government has been making preparations for the establishment of systems and structures for REDD Plus (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Tanzania is being supported in its preparations by the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), UN-REDD plus and the Norwegian Forests and Climate Initiative as well as a number of local and international Non Government Organizations (NGOs). This report has been prepared to provide inputs to the development of policy processes currently evolving in Tanzania regarding REDD plus. This review draws on almost two decades of experience within Tanzania on the development and establishment of Participatory forest management (PFM) an approach which (like REDD plus), aims to achieve the combined objectives of sustainable forest management with secure rights, improved local forest governance and secure livelihoods for forest-dependent communities.

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