Our Partnerships and Alliances

Our work aims to make international and national policies relevant at local levels. In operationalising these links we have learnt that partnerships are essential. Some of the key partnerships that the FCP has formed, or has been part of, include the following:

Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)

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In March 2003, IUCN, in collaboration with WWF and the Forestry Commission in the UK, successfully launched the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, a network of governments, organizations, communities and individuals who recognize the importance of forest landscape restoration and want to be part of a coordinated global effort to promote it. Partners currently comprise several key international organizations including the UNFF Secretariat, FAO, ITTO, CIFOR, World Bank (PROFOR), ICRAF, UNEP (World Conservation Monitoring Centre), the Secretariat of the CBD; state agencies such as the Forestry Commission of Great Britain and the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana; the governments of Kenya, Finland, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Switzerland; and CARE International and the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC). Many additional governments and other convention secretariats are taking steps to join. The partnership is organizing a global workshop on forest landscape restoration, to be held in early 2005, as a country and organization led initiative of the United Nations Forum on Forests but which will also provide input to the conventions on climate change, biodiversity and desertification, as well as to relevant regional policy processes. The workshop will deliver increased political support and partnerships to support intensified and expanded FLR activity around the world. To know more about the GPFLR and the FCP's work on FLR, click here.

Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF)

IUCN is a member of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), an interagency group of 14 key international forest-related organizations and agreements and other major international players including the ITTO, CBD, UNEP, UNFCCC, UNEP, UNDP, UNCCD, FAO, GEF, World Bank, CIFOR, ICRAF and IUFRO who support the work of the UNFF and its member countries, particularly in the implementation of the IPF/IFF Proposals for Action, and foster increased cooperation and coordination on forests. For example, IUCN together with PROFOR and the World Bank (PROFOR), and in consultation with the Secretariat of the CBD and other CPF partners, is undertaking an analysis of the relationship between the ecosystem approach and sustainable forest management, pursuant to the decision of UNFF-3 and as a contribution to the work of the CBD.

Global Fire Partnership (GFP)

IUCN, WWF and the Nature Conservancy (TNC) came together at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress in Durban in September 2003 to launch the Global Fire Partnership (PDF 365kb). The Partnership, which aims to maintain or restore ecologically and socially acceptable fire in ecosystems that depend on it, and reduce the incidence of unwanted fires in ecosystems where it is harmful, will involve key actors in fire management and build awareness of fire issues among policy-makers to develop integrated fire management approaches and long-term sustainable solutions. To know more about the FCP's work on forest fires, click here.

Congo Basin Forest Partnership

IUCN is a member of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership which was launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg as a Type II Partnership. Made up of 29 governments, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations, the CBPF is currently working to improve communication and coordination among its member organizations vis-à-vis their projects, programmes, and policies to promote sustainable management of Congo Basin Forest ecosystems and wildlife, and improve the lives of people living in the region. The first international meeting of the CBPF was held in Paris in January 2003, which IUCN attended.

Rainforest Challenge Partnership

In 2003, the FCP formally launched the Forests as Resources for the Poor: the Rainforest Challenge partnership (PDF 541kb), designed in 2002, in collaboration with WWF, CIFOR and ICRAF. This initiative aims to develop a joint programme of work to identify common conservation-development problems across the tropics and facilitate cross-regional lesson learning. The programme's goal is to enhance the productivity, sustainability and diversity of landscapes in the humid tropics in ways that meet the needs of the rural poor while maintaining forest biodiversity and other environmental services. A learning network of landscape-level sites has been identified in several countries where the partners are currently active. To know more about FCP's work on Poverty and Conservation, click here.

ForestPACT

Forest PACT, Forest Partnership for Action and Commitment Today. This is an action-oriented partnership aimed to reward and encourage leadership in forest conservation and improving sustainable livelihoods. It seeks to mobilise stakeholders who are already making a difference thereby institutionalising a culture of success. With clear forest conservation and sustainable management objectives, partners jointly contribute to actions that could not have been achieved alone. The ForestPACT secretariat is currently run by IUCN and WWF. To know more about FCP's work on Forest Governance, click here.

Introduction to International Forest Policy
International Forest Policy Processes
Regional Forest Policy Processes

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