1. Njeri Kariuki United Nations Forum on Forests
Workshop on the Common Forest Financing Strategy for SIDS, LFCCs, Africa and LDCs Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3-5 June 2013
This presentation will provide you with background information on the project facilitating financing for sustainable forest management in Africa and Least Developed Countries ( )
Njeri Kariuki
United Nations Forum on Forests

2. Funding : Germany - $800,000 & Sweden co-financing $28,000 Aimed to:
Facilitating financing for sustainable forest management (SFM) in Africa & Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Funding : Germany - $800,000 & Sweden co-financing $28,000
Aimed to:
Strengthen stakeholder capacity & understanding obstacles & challenges in financing SFM
Facilitate deliberations on opportunities to increase financing for SFM
The project was undertaken by the UNFF Secretariat in collaboration with the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the Government of Germany which provided $800,000 to implement the project ( we also received an additional $28,000 co-financing from the Government of Sweden).
The project which was a continuation of the earlier project on facilitating forest financing for Low forest cover countries and SIDS; and its main aim was to contribute to strengthening stakeholder capacity in Africa and in LDCs, to better understand the main obstacles, challenges and opportunities in financing SFM.
It’s main objective was to facilitate expert and inter-governmental deliberations on opportunities to increase financing for SFM in Africa & LDCs

3. Facilitating Forest Financing in Africa & LDCs
Rational:
Africa & LDCs are constrained in financial resources for sustainable forest management (SFM)
Target countries represent opportunities for SFM
Their absorptive capacities are limited to carry out SFM due to insufficient technical expertise & low political commitment
The rational for selecting these two categories of countries for this project was:
Africa and LDCs are particularly constrained in terms of financial resources for sustainable forest management
At the same time, these target countries also represent significant opportunities for sustainable forest management in light of their forest coverage
How ever, their absorptive capacities are especially limited to carry out sustainable forest management due to insufficient technical expertise and relatively low political commitment

4. Indufor Oy: 4 macro-level papers: 4 country case studies:
Facilitating Forest Financing in Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Indufor Oy:
4 macro-level papers:
2 background papers: Forest financing in Africa & LDCs
2 background papers: financing SFM in Africa & LDCs
4 country case studies:
2 African countries
2 LDCs
The first component of the project consisted of an in-depth analysis and assessment of the current financial flows and gaps in financing sustainable forest management in Africa and LDCs.
The UNFF Secretariat commissioned a company called INDUFOR to prepare 4 macro-level background papers. Two of these papers focused on forest financing in (1) Africa and in (1) LDCs and the other two papers focused on financing SFM in (1) Africa and (1) LDCs.
The papers also analysed the inter-sectoral linkages, particularly the impacts of other sectors, such as agriculture and transport on forest financing.
INDUFOR also prepared four country case studies (Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Nepal).

5. Facilitating Financing for SFM in Africa &LDCs
2 workshops:
Dakar -December, 2012
Nairobi - January 2013
Focused on:
Analysis of Indufor findings & exchange experiences on constraints to access forest financing
Key recommendations for further action.
Input into:
2nd ad hoc expert group meeting on forest financing (AHEG2 -Jan 2013)
UNFF10
The second component of the project consisted of preparing and organizing 2 inter-regional workshops in Africa and LDCs. The first workshop was held in Dakar, Senegal in December 2012 and the second one in Nairobi, Kenya in early January. Participants included national experts, representatives of Member organizations of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), donors and civil society representatives.
Because the project was a continuation of the SIDS/LFCCs project, countries that were unable to attend earlier workshops targeting low forest cover countries and small island developing countries were also be invited to participate in the two workshops.
Both workshops discussed the findings contained in the background papers and case studies prepared by Indufor. They also exchanged experiences on constraints and opportunities to accessing forest financing and identified key recommendations for further action for Africa and LDCs .
The results of both workshops complemented the findings of SIDS/LFCC workshops, and were presented to the 2nd ad hoc expert group meeting on forest financing (AHEG2) in January. The workshop outcomes also informed policy and programme decisions at UNFF10.

6. Selected countries Guinea* Africa LDCs Africa non-LDCs Cameroon*
Swaziland*
Guinea*
Zambia
Congo, Rep.*
Zimbabwe
Guinea Bissau
Côte d'Ivoire*
Liberia
Non-African LDCs
Gabon*
Madagascar
Bhutan
Ghana*
Africa LDCs
Malawi
Cambodia
Kenya*
Benin
Mozambique
Lao, PDR
Nigeria*
Burkina Faso
Senegal
Myanmar
Seychelles*
Central African Rep*.
Sierra Leone
Nepal
Ethiopia*
Sudan
Yemen
We had planned to have all 44 African and Least Developed Countries listed on this slide participating in this project. All together, 28 countries participated with a total of 75 participants.

7. Communication Strategy
Aims to disseminate results & reach out to all relevant stakeholders (national, regional, international, forests, other sectors)
Structure:
Policy briefs
Website with interactive « wiki »
Peer-reviewed publication
Final common financing strategy
The next component of the SIDS/LFCCs project and the Africa/LDCs project is the development and implementation of a communication strategy. The aim of this strategy is to disseminate the results of both projects and reach out to all relevant stakeholders at all levels. The structure of the strategy contains 4 main parts:
Development of policy briefs, a website, peer-reviewed publications and a common financing strategy.

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