By Dr. K. D. Singh, PresidentAcademy of Forest and Environmental Sciences, India

GEO Strategy for Capacity Development: post 2015With Special Reference to Tropical Regions1

MAIN SECTIONS

1. THE CURRENT CAPACITY IN THE TROPICAL REGIONS

2. REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO THE TOPICAL COUNTRIES

3. STRENGTHENING OF GLOBAL / REGIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK

4. DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE ON TROPICAL FORESTS

5. LESSONS OF INTERREGIONAL COUNTRY CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT, 1995-98

GEO Strategy for Capacity Development: post 2015With Special Reference to Tropical Regions1

COUNTRY CAPACITY IN TROPICAL REGIONSGOFC –GOLD SURVEY 2009

Only 3 out of the 99 countries scored very good for both forest area change monitoring and volume assessments, while less than 20% had submitted a complete GHG inventory; but, 70% of countries seemed to have serious limitations to provide complete and accurate national estimates

POPULATION AND ECONOMY:DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING

RURAL ENERGY USE

Wood from agric. 4%

Forest yield18%

Wood from other land

2%

Unrecorded sources

65%

Agric. residues 11%

CULTURAL DEPENDENCE ON NATURAL ECOSYSTEM IN (CENTRAL HIMALAYAS)

INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF GEO IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

1. INFORMATION GATHERING 2. CAPACITY BUILDING

1.1 Databases management 2. 1 Institution Development

1.2 Processed results 2.2 Skills

1.3 Studies and models 2.3 Standards

1.4 Reports 2.4 Methodologies

DIVISION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR

GLOBAL FOREST ASSESSMENT 1990

TCDC Lead Center

TCDC Lead Center

TCDC Lead Center

TCDC Lead Center

TCDC Lead Center

TCDC Lead Center

Project Headquarter Rome

Specialized Institutions in developing and developed

countries

Region Asia Region Africa Region Latin America

National Forest Resources Assessment Contribution

from and support to individual countries

Regional level

National Level

Global level

Regional level

INSTITUTIONAL NETWORKS FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN FOREST RESOURCES

ASSESSMENTS

STRENGTHENING OF REGIONAL COOPERATION IN MONITORING BIODIVERSITY IN COUNTRIES

OF ASIA & THE PACIFIC REGION

• Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (affiliated to UN)

• In Collaboration with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Forest Survey of India & Academy of Forests & Environmental Sciences

THE EPILOGUE

• “The history of international assistance shows that donors and partner countries alike have tended to look at capacity development as mainly a technical process, or as a transfer of knowledge or models from North to South. It is not that.

• What it involves is a fundamental change in

development paradigm including focusing on capacity as an endogenous process, agreeing at country level on capacity objectives and monitoring outcomes from the perspective of the beneficiaries. Such changes could have a substantial impact on capacity development outcomes.”

Thank You!

By Dr. K. D. Singh, PresidentAcademy of Forest and Environmental Sciences, India