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Forest financing in SIDS:
Feedback from Background Papers
Benjamin Singer
United Nations Forum on Forests
Objectives
• Immediate objective: to improve the
understanding of SFM and related financing policies
and mechanisms for SFM in LFCCs and SIDS
 present financing flows
 demand for financing
 problems, challenges and opportunities in mobilizing financing
 enabling environment for enhanced forest financing
 recommendations
• Ultimate objective: to facilitate additional financing
for forests in LFCCs & SIDS, and to reverse the
decline in official development assistance for SFM
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Scope
Study covered 49 LFCCs and 38 SIDS; total 87 countries
Including 7 case study countries of which 4 were LFCCs
- a reasonably representative set:
• Jordan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Mali
• Uruguay
• Cape Verde
• Fiji
• Trinidad and Tobago
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Methodology
• Data mining: available documents, reports and
statistics
• Email survey for 87 countries
• In-depth country case studies (7) using broad
cross-sectoral consultations
• Analyzing and summarizing collected information
• Products: 11 papers
– 4 macro level papers
– 7 case study papers
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Challenges
• Survey response rate was very low
Serious capacity constraints
Forests simply not a priority issue in political
agenda in many of the countries
• Earlier reports in study countries not available
• Specific data on SIDS not available (e.g.
agriculture and forest linkages, livestock and forest
linkages)
• Cross-sectoral coordination and even information
exchange a serious problem in many countries
• Collecting relevant cross-sectoral information at
country level requires patience and dedication
Forestry ODA in SIDS 2002-2008
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SIDS share of total forestry ODA
2002-2008
Forestry ODA contributions by
donor in SIDS 2002-2008
Percentage forestry ODA by
country in SIDS 2002-2008
Allocation of forestry ODA for
SIDS by theme 2002-2008
SIDS face several challenges...
• Small surface area
= competition for land
• Hotspots of endemicity and biodiversity
• Economic and ecological vulnerability
• Forests not considered a major source
of income
• Heavy reliance on ODA
... But also have opportunities
• Need to reach out to other sectors
• Full range of forest products and
services needs to be recognized
• Integrated approach to finance
planning
• Greater focus more on education
and training
Thank you for your attention!
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