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Sony Baral <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Jeff,

Many thanks for your support as well as sharing the regular updates.

Highest Regards
Sony

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Campbell, Jeffrey (FOE) <
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> Dear Facilitators,
>
> I wanted to share this update with all of you which I recently sent out to
> our Steering Committee members.  Thanks for all your help in identifying
> and supporting the participation of our country partners in this important
> event.
>
> Best,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> *From:* Campbell, Jeffrey (FOE)
> *Sent:* Monday, September 21, 2015 19:21
> *To:* Temu, August (ICRAF); Joji Carino ([log in to unmask]); Rukka
> Sombolinggi; 'Ignace Coussement'; [log in to unmask];
> [log in to unmask]; Muller, Eva (FOE); Noemi Perez (
> [log in to unmask]); Peter deMarsh ([log in to unmask])
> ([log in to unmask]); Emelia Arthur
> *Cc:* Grouwels, Sophie (FOE); ZapataAndia, Jhony (FOE);
> [log in to unmask]; BUSS Chris [[log in to unmask]]; FranceLanord,
> Marguerite (FOE); Gonzalez, Zoraya (FOE); BUFFLE Pauline [
> [log in to unmask]]
> *Subject:* Forest and Farm Facility Updates from The Gambia and the World
> Forestry Congress
>
>
>
> Dear Steering Committee members,
>
>
>
> I hope you are all well and will forgive this slightly long e-mail to
> share quick a quick news flash from one of our country programmes and more
> detailed news from the World Forestry Congress.  I will follow up with a
> second e-mail suggesting dates for our next Steering Committee meeting:
>
>
>
> *Community Forestry gains in The Gambia:*
>
>
>
> We have wonderful news to share from The Gambia, where after several years
> of consistent advocacy and effort our Facilitator and partners played a key
> role in the government’s decision to finally recognize 78 community
> forestry associations.
> http://observer.gm/fff-plays-pivotal-role-in-community-forest-management-says-ps-sowe/
>
> The Minister sent a formal commendation letter to our FAO country office
> for FFF’s role in this process and immediately requested that our
> Facilitator and the FAO Representative accompany him on a tour of the
> community forestry groups and requested support for the final mapping and
> paper work involved in completing their formal recognition.
>
>
>
> *Forest and farm producer organizations, Indigenous people and community
> based forestry were active, visible and engaged in the World Forestry
> Congress *
>
>
>
> ·       Thanks to the work of the FFF team working together with a large
> number of our partners the  presence of small holder family farmers, local
> communities and Indigenous Peoples and forest and farm producer
> organizations was noticed and had a significant impact at the World
> Forestry Congress.  This engagement occurred:  (during the Pre Congress
> “Building Momentum”
> <http://www.tropenbos.org/news/forest+and+farm+producers+speak+out+at+the+world+forestry+congress>,
> at the subtheme dialogue 1 sessions as key speakers and panelists, and
> participation in around 30 side events related to FFPOs
> <http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/43680-0508898d1a536cf44aa8c44bcd9ce66c4.pdf>).
> The FFF was a co-leader and planner for subtheme 1 on *Forests for
> Socio-economic Development and Food Security* throughout the Congress
> thus enabling us to ensure that the voice of FFPOs permeated this track.
>
> ·       Building on a process of regional dialogues and meetings held by
> FFF partners in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where as part of their
> learning and exchange meetings they developed their messages for the WFC -
> A global statement
> <http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/43804-0f6ade70aa38101a7399199145b67c0a7.pdf>
> of the Indigenous Peoples, local communities and family smallholders was
> agreed during the Pre Congess “Building Momentum”
> <http://www.fao.org/africa/news/detail-news/en/c/327465/> and shared
> widely through a flyer printed during the WFC. It clearly calls “government
> and major actors to engage with Indigenous Peoples, local communities and
> family smallholders, as equal partners, and to support them and invest in
> them, giving that they are a big part of the answer.”  Please note the
> large number of partners, all part of the steering committee of the
> Pre-Congress who “signed off” on the global statement and were equal
> participants in the event along with the Social Forestry Team from FAO.
>
> [image: pre Congress2]
>
> *Around 150 participants from 40 countries at the pre Congress “Building
> Momentum”*
>
> ·       Strong messages from the local voice were shared throughout WFC
> <http://www.tropenbos.org/news/forest+communities+are+heard+at+the+2015+world+forestry+congress+in+south+africa>
> .
>
> For example an interesting quote from Dr. Evelyn Nguleka, President World
> Farmers Organization” at the Dialogue for sub-theme 1 on Wednesday on
> Forest and Farm Producer Organizations:  “It is time for a change in
> consciousness - It is a fact that agriculture and forestry can no longer be
> treated in isolation. Linking the two is imperative for socio economic
> development in the 21st century.
>
> In addition, Video interviews of FFPOS leaders were organized.
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAoM6vIAWg>
>
> ·       Forest and Farm Producer Organization leaders, including our
> Steering Committee member Peter DeMarsh from the IFFA, our in-country
> Facilitator and staff member of the Vietnam National Farmers Union Vuley y
> Voan, Lucy Malenkei from the International Alliance of Indigenous and
> Tribal People of the Tropical Forests and Victor Lopez from the
> Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (below from right to left) took
> part in the plenary presentations of the major messages from the sub-themes
> 1 on Thursday . This was crucial in getting some key messages accepted and
> highlighted in the final WFC outcome.
>
> [image: podium email]
>
> ·       The final outcome of the WFC
> <http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/328500/icode/>, the Durban
> Declaration, 2050 vision for forests and forestry, highlights the necessary
> “engagement with indigenous peoples and local communities”, and the
> fundamental role of “forest-dependent communities and indigenous peoples”
> in the climate change issue is repeated in the Message on Climate Change
> from the XIV World Forestry Congress.
>
> ·       To keep the Momentum, key recommendations, an overall strategy
> and opportunities were discussed at the Way Forward Session and will be
> summarized by the FFF Team to continue strengthening the local voice at
> upcoming local, national, regional and global events.  Participants
> developed plans for continuing to share the messages from the Pre-Congress
> event at the UN Forum on Forests, the UNFCCC and at national and local
> levels with their own communities.
>
> ·       Two new publications were launched: Democratising forest
> business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business
> models, co-published by IIED <http://pubs.iied.org/13581IIED.html> and FFF,
> and Effective Forest and Farm Producer Organizations
> <http://www.etfrn.org/publications/effective+forest+and+farm+producer+organizations>,
> ETFRN News 57 (co-funded by FFF), during a side event
> <http://www.tropenbos.org/news/landscapes+and+livelihoods.+forest+and+farm+producer+organizations+share+their+stories>
> .
>
> ·       The partnership between FAO and We Effect
> <http://www.weeffect.org/weeffect-fao-forestry/> was launched during the
> Way Forward Session on Friday 11, with remarks from several partners
> including We Effect, FAO, Sida, The Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and
> Innovation IFFA, FF-SPAK, an d FFF. Four Steering Committee members
> including August Temu, Peter DeMarsh, Noemi Perez (pictured) and Eva Muller
> (pictured below) participated on the dias for the launch.
>
> [image: we effect email]
>
> ·       The FFF received wide media coverage: thanks to the combined
> efforts of the FFF and Forestry Department communications team, our
> partners and a special contract with Burness Communication through our
> partnership with IIED.   Recognition of the importance of FFPOs for climate
> change adaptation and mitigation, improved livelihoods, and food security
> was made clear through an FFF statement
> <http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/43687-0820f3e39490172a7630cc939a3363b99.pdf>,
> numerous articles published in the media at global level
> <http://www.fao.org/partnerships/forest-farm-facility/news/en/> (more
> than 10 articles and radio interviews published online including RTCC
> <http://www.rtcc.org/2015/09/07/small-forest-users-can-outcompete-agribusiness/>,
> Thomson Reuters Foundation
> <http://www.trust.org/item/20150904181057-lgmai>, Montgabay
> <http://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/small-scale-farming-and-agroforestry-could-be-in-fighting-climate-change-poverty/>,
> RFI
> <http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20150907-africa-s-indigenous-communities-key-preserving-forests-and-combating-climate-change>,
> Le Monde, Agencia EFE, South African Broadcasting Company –both TV and
> radio, UN Radio and others).
>
> ·       Active communications linkages were made between FFF partners
> such as IIED, Tropenbos, FAO, RECOFTC
> <http://www.recoftc.org/press-releases/press-release-world-forestry-congress-sets-out-vision-future-forests>
> in posting blogs, news items, Press releases, and tweets during the whole
> week (IIED blog <http://www.iied.org/time-dust-vuvuzelas>, IIED briefing
> <http://pubs.iied.org/17308IIED.html>, Tropenbos articles
>
> ·        The FFF pavilion was a lively meeting point and information
> center. Publications were shared, a photo exhibition was organized, events
> information and flyers from all partners were distributed.
>
> *[image: building momentum IP email]*
>
>
>
>
>
> Special thanks are due to:  our Steering Committee members (Eva, Peter,
> Noemi and of course our chair August) who actively participated in many
> sessions and panels, and supported the FFF throughout the World Forestry
> Congress and to the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture for providing
> an extra contribution through the Carlowitz project which enabled much of
> the local costs for the Pre-Congress event.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Jeff  and the FFF team
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Y Campbell
>
> Manager,  Forest and Farm Facility (FFF)
>
> FAO -Forestry Department, Room D-424
>
> Viale delle Terme di Caracalla - 00153 Rome, Italy
>
> Tel.: +39 -06 57054530 office, +39 3351977349 mobile
>
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-- 
Sony Baral

Programme Officer
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
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