Tools for Building Political Success in Forest Protection

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Tools for Building Political Success in Forest
Protection
United Nations Development Programme
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UNDP Focus

• On the ground in 166 countries neutrality
• Millennium Development Goals, overarching goal
  of cutting poverty in half by 2015.
• Helping countries build and share solutions to
  the challenges of
• Democratic Governance
• Poverty Reduction
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
• Environment and Energy
• HIV/AIDS
• Human rights and the empowerment of women in all
  activities.

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52 UNDP Parliamentary Development projects (2009)
Europe and CIS 8 projects
Arab Region 7 projects
Latin America and the Caribbean 3 projects
Asia-Pacific 13 projects
Africa 21 projects
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Parliamentary Development

• Legislative role
• Representative role
• Parliament-Government relations and oversight
• Parliamentary Administration

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Methodology

• Advocacy
• Programme design, implementation and evaluation
• Knowledge products (Manuals, web-based
  information, practice notes)
• Capacity development and regional working groups
• Partnerships (e-parliament, APF, CPA, SADC PF,
  IPU, NDI, IDEA, EC, WBI, French National Assembly
  and Senate)
• Monitoring Trends (global and regional
  innovations in parliamentary development)
• Sharing experiences and best practices

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UNDP Global Environment Facility

• Global Environment Facility (GEF) 8.74 billion
  USD categories biological diversity, climate
  change, international waters and ozone depletion
  ( new areas land degradation and persistent
  organic pollutant)
• Small Grant Programme (NGOs)
• co-funded project Institutionalizing Payment
  for Ecosystems Services and supporting pilot PES
  globally and building up regional capacity for
  policy makers.
•  The latest generation of UNDP GEF projects are
  being designed to support PES in various
  countries, such as Argentina Colombia China
  (including product and service pricing, market
  transactions, and producer capacity to engage in
  the PES schemes).

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Tools for Parliamentarians to Deliver Change on
Forest Protection

• MPs are the intermediary between government
  action and citizens demands
• Strategy - Action Plan Actors - Resources
• How use parliamentary tools
• Legislation (Laws, Regulation, Policies)
• Oversight (QP, Committee hearings)
• Representation (Creating demand / Building
  support)
• Partners Political parties, like-minded MPs,
  media, civil society, citizens, NGOs, academics.

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Legislation

• Sources
• Government drafts legislation
• Parliamentary Committees
• Individual MPs
• 2) Amendment or new Forestry Law Regulation?
• 3) Comparative experience - FAOLEX

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Oversight

• Question period
• Committee work
• Petitions and resolutions
• Debates

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• Question period
• Use personal stories
• Be persistent
• Push for media coverage

• Committee Work
• Ask relevant questions when draft law is before
  the committee
• Seek committee hearings / consultations
• Push for media coverage

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• Petitions/ Res.
• Use petitions to draw attention to citizen
  support
• Have the petition committee review it
• Have resolutions debated on opposition days or
  adjournment debates

• Debates
• Find an angle to raise your initiative
• Be persistent

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Building Support Creating Demand

• MP must build support for the legislative
  initiative
• Political party
• Other MPS / Cross-party Forest Groups
• Citizens
• Interested Groups
• Government State Forestry Department
• Universities

How Meetings with citizens, Constituency work,
internet e-mails, communication
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BUILD SUPPORT FOR AN INITIATIVE

• Action Plan Best tools Consultation
• Engage citizens and CSOs
• Use media to get the message disseminated
• Seek support from party and fellow MPs
• Use parliamentary Tools (draft laws, QP,
  committees) to your advantage
• Knowledge FAOLEX, other experiences networking

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