GFAR Global Partnerships Programme (GPP) on

Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)(pipeline GPP)

NTFP GPP Origins

GFAR Conference in Dakar in 2003 recommended activities in the area of Forestry and Forest Ecosystems

Status

• Agreement between GFAR and INBAR to go ahead with the GPP development process (March 2004)

• Concept developed and discussed between GFAR Secretariat, FAO and INBAR at meeting in Rome (August 2004)

• Limited electronic polling in Asia to determine interest in such a GPP of various partners – strong interest

• Presentation of proposal at the GFAR Steering Committee meeting in Mexico 2004, where it was supported by APAARI and FARA; AARINENA wanted more information, and FORAGRO asked for globalization and not starting only in Asia

GFAR Steering Committee

recommendation (Mexico 2004)

• “Steering Committee recommended that the NTFP programme continue the consultation process to ascertain the true global nature and relative interest of stakeholders in a GPP around the NTFP theme.” (GFAR newsletter)

Regional Consultations

Two principal questions to be addressed in the context of the GPP NTFP proposal presented to GFAR 2004

• Interest in a GPP around the NTFP theme

• Global relevance – because GPPs are global

Process followed:

• Consultations with the Regional Fora

• Consultations with governments

• Consultations with potential partners

Consultation with Regional Fora

• APAARI: Presentation made to APAARI General Meeting in Bangkok (December 2004). APAARI welcomed the GPP on NTFPs

• AARINENA: Presentation made to Executive Committee Meeting in Marrakech (December 2004). AARINENA supported the GPP. Medicinal and Herbal Plants Research Network is interested.

• FORAGRO (April 2005): Presentation made to the International Meeting in Panama in April 2004. Supported as a necessary initiative. PROCIANDINA and PROCITROPICOS interested.

• FARA (June 2005): Side-event and plenary intervention, no objections.

(supported by INBAR’s budget)

Consultations with Governments

Official statements of endorsement have been received from the following countries

• Ecuador (offered field sites)

• India (offered to host Secretariat, its activities, support field sites)

• Mozambique (offered field sites)

Launch Meeting1-2 December 2005

Marrakech

C O L

ECUADOR INDIA MOZAMBIQUE

Founding Partners:International organizations:

International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), Initiating Partner

Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

International Centre for Under-utilized Crops (ICUC)

International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Countries/NARS:

Ecuador

India

Mozambique

NGOs:

Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF)

Centre for Indian Bamboo Resource and Technology (CIBART)

InHand Abra Foundation

Netherlands Development Organization (SNV)

Private sector:

Zernike GmbH

Dabur India Limited

The GPP is an institutional framework

• Local: Local Action Research Partnership Sites owned by communities with strategic technical, financial and marketing partnerships

• Regional: Regional Focal Points in Regional Fora will assist in regional coordination tasks

• Global: A Global Facilitating Unit will act as Secretariat and bring together the above elements

• Technical and Cross-cutting: NTFP Working Groups (e.g. honey, medicinal plants, etc.) that will bring in diverse partners, taking into account regional priorities, and cross-cutting NTFP Thematic Groups (e.g. supply chain management, marketing, pro-poor commoditization, financing systems, etc.)

NTFP GPP Institutional Framework

Rural

communitygroups

NTFP 1 NTFP 2 NTFP 3

ACTION RESEARCH SITE

NTFP 1 NTFP 2 NTFP 3

ACTION RESEARCH SITE

NTFP 1 NTFP 2 NTFP 3

ACTION RESEARCH SITE

Rural

communitygroups

Rural

communitygroups

NTFP Working Group

(medicinal plants)

NTFP Working Group

(honey)

NTFP Working Group

(mushrooms)

Partners Partners Partners

NTFP GPP STEERING COMMITTEE

Secretariat: focal point (INBAR)Regional focal points

Cross-cutting Thematic Group

Marketing

Cross-cuttingThematic Group

Supply chain management

Action Research Partnerships Sites- existing and proposed INBAR sites + SNV, BAIF,

ICIMOD, ICRAF and other sites

Launch meeting 1 December 2005 - Results

Working groups and plenary sessions:

- Institutional arrangements and Action Research Partnership Sites

- Strategic research programmes

- Information, knowledge and capacity-building

- Supply chains, awareness creation, advocacy, policy

- Budget

List of NTFPs

Aromatic plants

Bamboo

Charcoal

Dye plants

Fuelwood

Honey

Medicinal plants

Mushrooms

Rattan

Thatching and plaiting plant materials

Declaration signed to launch the initiative

LOGICAL FRAMEWORK

Goal

Sustainable enhancement of the livelihoods of NTFP collectors and producers

Outputs

1. Action Research Partnership Sites (ARPS)

2. Strategic Research Programmes

3. Global NTFP Information and Knowledge Repository

4. Learning and Replication Support Services

5. Equitable NTFP Supply Chains

6. NTFP Awareness Creation, Advocacy and Policy Development

7. Global NTFP Partnership Secretariat

Global Partnership (Programme) on Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs*) for Livelihoods Development

Design summary Indicators Monitoring mechanisms

Risks & assumptions

GOAL: Sustainable enhancement of the livelihoods of NTFP collectors and producers

PURPOSE: Formal socially and environmentally sustainable economic solutions at the local level for NTFPs within a market economic framework, which will serve as models for adaptive replication and upscaling elsewhere, systematically managed and the incremental learning captured through a common global institutional system

Relevant indicators of human development (incomes, etc.); International and domestic NTFP trade volumes and values; R&D expenditures on NTFPs

National trade and other statistics; Surveys; Project/activity reports (M&E)

Key stakeholders will downstream information, knowledge, skills; Conducive domestic policy environment; Favourable international terms of trade

OBJECTIVES AND OUTPUTS:

Output 1: Action Research Partnership Sites (ARPS)

Activities: 1.1 Development of local institutional and financing systems

1.2 Identification/matching of sites & priority projects

1.3 Implementation of collaborative and stand-alone action research projects, including technology validation and site/project twinning, with multi-stakeholder participation

1.4 Participation in relevant cross-cutting and thematic working groups (technical and strategic guidance and backstopping)

1.5 Development and management of site-specific yet standardized M&E systems

NTFP research projects and programmes, results

Programme M&E, reporting, evaluation missions

ARPS available in all regions. Effective ARPS management by site "owners". Community participation.

Design summary Indicators Monitoring mechanisms

Risks & assumptions

Output 2: Strategic Research Programmes

Activities: 2.1 Establishment of and participation in Thematic Working Groups (TWGs)

2.2 Establishment of and participation in NTFP-specific Working Groups (NTFP-WGs)

2.3 Development of Annual Strategic Research Agenda

2.4 Matching of priority research needs to ARP sites

2.5 Completion of Annual Strategic Research Portfolio through ARPs

No. of sites; groups and members, backstopping activities

Programme M&E, reporting, evaluation missions, meeting minutes

Partners share existing sites and programmes; new sites and programmes can be added (with additional funding). Electronic networking with most members, physical meetings should complement E-network.

Output 3: Global NTFP Information and Knowledge Repository

Activities: 3.1 Establishment of a system hub for global and cross-cutting information and knowledge objects

3.2 Development and management of linkages to global/regional/national systems (South-South, North-South)

3.3 Development of distance learning materials

Website, physical repository. ODL modules.

Programme M&E, reporting, evaluation missions. Availability of online and print versions.

Secretariat's information infrastructure. Systems' interoperability, commonly acceptable metadata standards. Competent course writers available.

Output 4: Learning and Replication Support Services

Activities: 4.1 Development/acquisition of appropriate ICT-based and traditional methods for knowledge dissemination

4.2 Establishment of community information centres (traditional media, ICT-based media, rural radio hubs, etc.)

4.3 Development of appropriate data collection systems (knowledge capturing and safeguarding)

4.4 Development of models and toolboxes for replication/adaptation

Training events. Demonstration sites. Utilization of centres, products and services.

Programme M&E, reporting, evaluation missions

Community participation

Design summary Indicators Monitoring mechanisms

Risks & assumptions

4.5 Establishment of demonstration sites

4.6 Development of annual training calendars and organization of training events

4.7 Development and management of Q&A and expert services (clinics)

Output 5: Equitable NTFP Supply Chains

Activities: 5.1 Development of rural enterprises (SMEs, CBOs)

5.2 Processing and value-adding including quality control

5.3 Pro-poor commoditization and marketing, including public-private partnerships, participation in trade fairs (e.g., Rothamsted BioMarket, Nuernberg BioFach), etc.

5.4 Development and management of logistics (storage, transport)

No. of enterprises, employment and income generation. Processing plants. Participation in relevant events, sales volumes and values. Infrastructure.

Programme M&E, reporting, evaluation missions

Successful market development, commoditization, up-scaling of cottage industries to industrial scale (quantity, quality)

Output 6: NTFP Awareness Creation, Advocacy and Policy Development

Activities: 6.1 Development of policymaker educational materials

6.2 Development of policy papers and recommendations by request

6.3 Advocacy for and fostering of a conducive policy and institutional environment

Emergence of specific NTFP policies. Policies and regulations centered on other subjects NTFP-friendly. Equitable and sustainable enforcement of regulations. No. of papers and requests for papers.

Policy analysis, inventory of NTFP regulations and incidents.

Opportunities to influence policy-makers, participation by ARPs and other local agents

Design summary Indicators Monitoring mechanisms

Risks & assumptions

Output 7: Global NTFP Partnership Secretariat/GFU

Activities: 7.1 Establishment and management of Secretariat/GFU (operational, financial)

7.2 Development & management of standardized programme M&E system

7.3 Networking (electronic, traditional) of partners

7.4 Organization/management of programme meetings

7.5 Management of donor and prospective partner liaison

Secretariat operational, staff recruited. M&E system operational. Platforms (groups, blogs, fora, etc.) , information flow. Meetings' organization. Acquisition of funds and partners.

Programme M&E, reporting, evaluation missions. Meeting minutes

Provision/availability of secretariat infrastructure, staff. Interest of the donor community in the NTFP theme, successful fundraising activities.

* NTFPs according to the current priority list include: aromatic plants, bamboo, charcoal, dye plants, fuelwood, honey, medicinal plants, mushrooms, rattan, thatching & plaiting materials

Phase I (2006) scenario, based on in-kind contributions

� Secretariat function handled by INBAR staff

� Consolidation of ongoing activities and results

� Coordinated information and knowledge collection, collation, sharing and dissemination

� Establishment of minimal institutional system; electronic meetings of NTFP and Thematic Working Groups

� Establishment of linkages to existing/emerging global agricultural information systems and to other relevant initiatives (GPPs e.g. ICM4ARD, Under-utilized Crops; CGIAR System-wide initiative on Under-utilized Crops, etc.)

� Fundraising

2/ Similar budgets to be prepared by Partners as applicable

1/ Costs during the preparatory phase 2004-2005 were borne entirely by INBAR and amount to around USD 152,400

(travel and conferences: 48,000; staff time (on full cost recovery basis: 104,400)

4,686,5501,222,7501,495,4001,968,400Grand Total

18,0006,0006,0006,000Annual business meeting (b2b w/ CG AGM)

0000Thematic Working Group meetings (electronic)

0000Technical Working Group meetings (electronic)

Meetings (Outputs 1 & 2):

4,364,3501,115,3501,388,0001,861,000Field sites and research projects, training

ARPS and learning (Outputs 1 & 4):

45,00015,00015,00015,000Regional Focal Points (Output 2)

259,20086,40086,40086,400Staff, knowledge base and admin. costs

Secretariat (Outputs 3 & 7):

Total200820072006Budget Head

Cash and in-kind contributions – INBAR (USD) 1,2/

Draft Budget 2006 - 2008

Note: Contributions of India (hosting - space, sites), Mozambique (sites), Ecuador (sites), not factored in

2,660,000875,000875,000910,000Grand Total

150,00050,00050,00050,000Awareness, advocacy, policy (Output 6)

300,000100,000100,000100,000Supply chain development (incremental costs) (Output 5)

90,00030,00030,00030,000Annual meeting (b2b w/ CG AGM)

0000Thematic Working Group meetings (electronic)

0000Technical Working Group meetings (electronic)

Meetings (Outputs 1 & 2):

300,000100,000100,000100,000Training and learning

600,000200,000200,000200,000Field sites, incremental research costs

ARPS and learning (Outputs 1 & 4):

240,00080,00080,00080,000Regional Focal Points (Output 2)

80,00015,00015,00050,000Office infrastructure, communication, maintenance

150,00050,00050,00050,000Support staff & technical advisors

375,000125,000125,000125,000Knowledge management

375,000125,000125,000125,000Technical coordination

Secretariat (Outputs 3 & 7):

Total200820072006Budget Head

Required incremental funding – (USD)

Phase II scenario (2007-), with additional funding

- Secretariat established in India (Indian government offer), with full-time technical coordinator

- Global NTFP Knowledge System and management, linkages w/ other global/regional/national systems, ODL materials, local learning and replication support services

- Adding-on of partners, ARP sites, NTFPs

- Development of the institutional system (working groups, thematic groups, regional focal points); annual meeting back-to-back w/ CG AGM

- Operational funds for Regional Focal Points

- Additional action research programmes in existing and new sites

Fundraising

• Endorsement by GFAR Steering Committee

• Focused campaigns: Year of Medicinal Plants, Mushrooms, etc., led by partners with relevant domain expertise, for general awareness creation and funding of global projects specific to the “NTFP of the season”

2006 has been agreed as the Year of Charcoal, and an International Conference on Charcoal and Communities in Africa has been

proposed for late 2006, to be held in Maputo, Mozambique

2007 will likely be the Year of Medicinal Plants

• Fundraising by regional consortia of NTFP GPP partners for (sub) region-wide projects

• Fundraising by individual partners for smaller projects

Thank you!