Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development : Forest Tenure Assessment Tool and User Guide
The forest tenure assessment tool (FTAT) and user guide consists of an integrated set of methodologies and guidelines for assessing both why it is important to secure community-based forest tenure in a specific national or sub-national context, and...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/893791610082568120/Securing-Forest-Tenure-Rights-for-Rural-Development-Forest-Tenure-Assessment-Tool-and-User-Guide http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35016 |
| Summary: | The forest tenure assessment tool (FTAT)
and user guide consists of an integrated set of
methodologies and guidelines for assessing both why it is
important to secure community-based forest tenure in a
specific national or sub-national context, and what needs to
be done to strengthen forest tenure in that context. It is a
companion piece to the analytical framework (AF), developed
during phase one of the securing forest tenure rights for
rural development initiative. The AF highlights the
relevance of secure community-based forest tenure to
sustainable development goals (SDG), and presents a set of
key elements derived from evidence and best practice in
securing community forest tenure. Community-based forest
tenure is important because tenure security is key in
achieving a range of SDGs. One part of the assessment
methodology presented asks, why forest tenure reform? It
focuses on consolidating country-specific evidence of the
linkages between community-based forest tenure security and
several, particularly relevant SDG. The methodology involves
exploring opportunities to achieve development goals by
strengthening tenure security, as well as risks to the
achievement of development outcomes where tenure is
insecure. This part of the methodology is aimed at
developing policy rationales for dialogue with high-level
decision-makers in governments and the World Bank. A second
part of the methodology presented here examines how to
secure collective forest tenure and focuses on assessing the
current status of community tenure security in forest areas.
The objective is to enable participatory diagnostic
assessments of the strengths and weaknesses of current land
and forest tenure frameworks, capacities, and implementation
processes. This assessment tool is designed for anyone
interested in understanding and strengthening
community-based tenure security in forest landscapes in any
country or region. The following sections provide an
overview of the two part assessment methodology for
understanding the why and how dimensions of community-based
forest tenure in section two; step-by-step process
guidelines for conducting assessments in section three; a
final section that identifies five broad categories of Bank
products and services that can benefit from the FTAT and a
range of modalities of implementation that vary in cost and
duration in section four. |
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