This document summarizes a presentation about using multi-stakeholder dialogue processes to address deforestation issues. It provides an overview of The Forests Dialogue organization, which facilitates constructive discussions between stakeholders to find collaborative solutions to challenges in the forestry sector. It describes lessons learned from TFD's dialogues in Indonesia around issues like intensively managed plantation forests, free and informed consent, and investing in locally controlled forestry. The presentation emphasizes that multi-stakeholder processes can build trust, share perspectives, and help develop collaborative approaches to issues like reducing deforestation.

1. Doing Dialogue:
Using multi-stakeholder processes as a tool to
reduce conflict and address deforestation
in the forest sector
James Griffiths, World Business Council for
Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Marcus Colchester, Forest Peoples Program
(FPP)
Rod Taylor, WWF International
Tropical Forest Alliance
27 June 2013 (14:40-15:00)
Jakarta, Indonesia

2. About this presentation
1. Introduction multi-stakeholder
processes and the work of The
Forests Dialogue (TFD)
2. Lessons learned from TFD’s
Indonesian Dialogues
3. Avoided Deforestation and the
4F’s Initiative
Learning Objective
Improved understanding how
outcomes-orientated multi-
stakeholder approaches can be
developed as a solution option –
because they share diverse
perspectives, can build trust and help
develop or support collaborative
approaches

3. Why dialogue on natural resource
use & land management issues?
• Public natural capital assets – usually held “in
trust” by governments or regulated if privately
owned or leased or community managed
• Forests generate multiple goods and services
for multiple beneficiaries
• Multi-stakeholder approach can improve
decision making on long term management,
use and benefit sharing
• Help manage the real risk of mismanagement
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4. Global Partners
Recent Donors

5. TFD’s mission has evolved
since 2000
PURPOSE: Better forests, improved
livelihoods. To contribute to sustainable
land and resource use, the conservation
and sustainable management of forests,
and improved livelihoods by helping people
engage and explore difficult issues, find
collaborative solutions, and make positive
changes.
MISSION: Dialoguing can bring change. To
pursue our purpose through constructive
dialogue processes among all key
stakeholders, based on mutual trust,
enhanced understanding and commitment
to change. Our dialogues are designed to
build relationships and to spur collaborative
action on the highest priority issues facing
the world’s forests.

6. Key Forest Challenges
2000-2013
• Sustainable management
verification via forest certification
• Coming together to fight illegal
logging
• Biodiversity conservation on
production forests
– Intensively managed planted
forests
– Genetically modified trees
• Forests for livelihoods
– Pro-poor commercial forestry
– Investing in locally controlled
forestry
• The role of forests in mitigating
climate change and the prospects
of REDD+
• Implementing Free, Prior,
and Informed Consent

7. What has TFD
accomplished?
• Built trust and created a
network and resource for
leaders
• Provided a credible neutral
platform for all stakeholders,
but particularly marginalized
groups
• Catalyst for partnerships
• Promoted policy leadership
• Pushed for behavior change
• Developed a large body
of information (or soft policy)
• Legacy impacts

8. Doing
Dialogue
The Phased Approach
1. ‘ENGAGE’: Identify key
issues, build trust, share
perspectives and
information.
2. ‘EXPLORE’: Seek
consensus about challenges
and opportunities to solve a
forest-related ‘fracture-line’.
3 ‘CHANGE’: Promote and
facilitate actions that lead to
solutions, with impact in
policy and on the ground.

9. Doing Dialogue
Typical steps
• Issue identification and clarification
• Preparatory work and collation of
background papers
• Invitation of stakeholders
• Establishment of ground rules
• Sharing experience
• Exploration of views
• Analysis and constructive argument
• Decisions and prioritization of action
steps or agreed
recommendations
• Types of dialogue – scoping, in-field,
policy options, report writing

10. What dialogue does
not/cannot do
• Conferences! Few
presentations, no panels
• Lead projects on the ground
- but can support
• Bring funding to locals - but
can highlight needs
• Mediate or negotiate 2
party issues – but can share
• Solve problems for you - but
can explore & provide
options
• Make change – but can
catalyze, promote and
support change

11. The Forests Dialogue
@ Indonesia
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12. Intensively Managed
Planted Forests (IMPF)
Process
• Pekanbaru and Kerinci,
Indonesia
• March 2007
• 70 International and National
stakeholders
• Hosted by WWF and April
Objectives
• Understand driving forces of
expansion and develop agreed
strategies to address
environmental and social
challenges

13. IMPF Dialogue Conclusions
Challenges
• Marginalization of communities =
insecure tenure and rights
• Social conflict = inadequate
governance
• Mill capacity driving forest
conversion
Ways Forward
• Private sector as vehicle for
Sustainable Development
• Private sector can be proactive in
terms of community rights and use
• Labor and supply contracts with
locals bring varied benefits
• Avoided deforestation and REDD may
provide opportunities

14. Free, Prior and
Informed Consent (FPIC)
Process
• Pekanbaru, Pangean, and Teluk
Meranti, Indonesia
• October 2010
• 80 International and National
stakeholders
• Hosted by Kemitraan, FPP and
Scale up
Objectives
• Examine and learn lessons from
real world examples where
consent-based approaches
have been, or are being, used

15. FPIC Dialogue Conclusions
Challenges
• 60-90 million people live within
forested areas, < 40% land titled, <
0.2% allocated to communities
• Obstacles and confusion in law and
policy over FPIC led to land conflicts
• Some companies seeking to develop
practical implementation of FPIC
Ways Forward
• For FPIC to work, companies need to
recognize rights to land, livelihoods
• All parties need support to build
capacity to engage with one another
• Emphasizing the “prior” in FPIC will
greatly reduce conflict
• Government should endorse
company-community agreements

16. Investing in Locally
Controlled Forestry (ILCF)
Process
• Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• February 2012
• 55 International and National
stakeholders
• Hosted by Telapak and the
Forest Trust
Objectives
• Identify actions necessary to
increase partnerships and
investments in locally
controlled forestry between
communities and
companies

17. ILCF Dialogue Conclusions
Challenges
• Widening gap of raw material supply
• LCF on margin of forest policy and
economic development
• Complex and costly administration
• Lack of access to financial tools
Ways Forward
• Create links to buyers
• Transparency for all parties
• Enabling investment as a precursor
to asset investment
• Use credit unions to assist with cash
flow, build associations for LCF
• Gear partnerships toward investment
• Persuade policy makers to support
ILCF
• Clarify expectations for communities
and investors

18. The Forests Dialogue – new focus
on deforestation drivers
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19. Forests, Food, Fuel and Fibre
(4Fs)
Farmland
Plantation Other ecosystems
Unlogged forest
Logged forest
2010

20. The Big Squeeze
Do Nothing in 2050 High greenhouse
gas emissions
Huge decline
in biodiversity

21. The 4Fs Challenge
Policy Innovation to -
• Enable forestry and farming practices that
produce more with less land, water and
pollution
• Encourage new consumption patterns
that meet the needs of the poor while
eliminating waste and over-consumption
by the affluent
• Reconcile competing claims for land and
water for different needs (e.g. food and
energy security, biodiversity conservation,
carbon sequestration)
• Ensure that Indigenous peoples can give
or withhold their free, prior and informed
consent to activities affecting their land
and resources
• Encourage local economies that are green
and inclusive

22. Thank You!
The Forests Dialogue Secretariat
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
+1 203 432 5966
tfd@yale.edu
www.theforestsdialogue.org
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