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A Practitioners Workshop on
Promoting Transparency in the
Forest
Sector:
Best Practices for
Detecting Illegal and
Destructive
Commercial Logging
May
29-31, 2002
May 29-30
National
Conference
Center,
Lansdowne,
Virginia
May 31
World Resources
Institute, Washington, D.C.
Agenda
Background
As shown by numerous studies on the magnitude and impact of forest
crime, illegal timber harvesting and trade are a major threat to global
forest resources and have serious negative economic, environmental, and
social impacts. On-the-ground
assessments of illegal logging are needed to document the scale of the
problem, to track progress in addressing the issue, and to highlight
where enforcement is still needed. Civil society is a key actor
in prevention and detection activities. Many non-governmental groups
(NGOs) provide useful monitoring services that contribute to the
detection of forest crime. Groups
monitoring illegal logging have used a range of methods from field
inspections using low technology tracking tools such as ultraviolet
paint and interviews, to painstaking, office-based audits of licenses
and forest management plans. Effective monitoring and enforcement
activities require a sharing of information between groups and training
in monitoring methods and new technologies.
Workshop Purpose
To bring together practitioners from Civil Society groups/NGOs around
the world to exchange experiences, identify best practices and tools,
and identify opportunities for training and future collaboration in
order to advance critical work to document the magnitude of illegal and
destructive commercial logging.
Objectives of the Workshop
The objectives of the workshop are to:
- Facilitate exchanges of experiences of practitioners involved in
the detection and monitoring of illegal and destructive commercial
logging;
- Identify training opportunities, best practices, and key tools,
techniques and methods;
- Review techniques for communicating results and influencing
forestry policies;
- Identify opportunities for collaboration and mutual reinforcement;
- Gather information to produce an outline or ‘toolbox’ of
methods and best practices needed to document and track illegal
logging activities;
- Share experiences and allow practitioners to network with a
broader audience to discuss opportunities for collaboration.
Tuesday, May 28
7:00 Dinner followed by
informal reception
Wednesday, May 29
7:30
Breakfast
8:30
Welcome and Introductions
9:30
Case Study: Field Investigations
Presentations on field investigations and how their organizations
undertake their work.
10:00 Break
11:00 General
discussion on best practices for field investigations: strategies,
planning work, required tools
12:00 Lunch
1:00
Case Study: Paper Audits
Presentations on use of paper
audits followed by general discussion on techniques and tools.
2:45
Break
3:30
Transparency/Access Session:
Overview and discussion of the links
between transparency, governance and human rights and the forestry sector.
4:15
Small Groups: Transparency/Access Session
5:15
Report back to Plenary
5:45
Close of meeting
7:00
Dinner
Informal
discussions in evening/networking
Thursday,
May 30
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Opening
of Meeting
8:40 Communications:
Overview and strategies
Presentations on how groups have used data to influence change.
Followed by discussion on what are the best means of
communicating results, of influencing policy and action?
9:45 Break
10:00 Small
Groups: Communications
11:15 Report
back to Plenary and General Discussion
12:00 Lunch
1:00 An
examination of the Big Numbers: Trade, production, and
consumption data.
Presentations on using these tools to identify problems.
2:30 Break
3:00 Partnerships
and Opportunities: What are the opportunities to collaborate? To feed
into larger processes?
This
session will be a discussion on how and where NGOs can collaborate.
5:30 Break
7:00 Dinner
9:00 Gathering
Friday, May 31
7:00
Breakfast
7:45
Board bus for Transportation to WRI offices in DC
9:00
Arrival at WRI Offices
9:30
Introduction
9:40
Remote Sensing Session
Presentations highlighting
the use of remote sensing to detect illegal logging activities.
Followed by discussion.
11:30
Working Lunch in session
12:00
Break/setup posters etc.
1:00
Plenary session on Illegal Logging and Best Practices
1:00-1:15
Introduction
Welcome by WRI – Tony
Janetos, Vice-President
USFS/USAID - welcome/why
important issue, why funding the meeting
1:15-1:30
Overview of issue – Wynet Smith
1:30-2:30
Case studies of best practices in the field – Field
practitioners present overviews of their work.
Followed by Q and A.
2:30-3:00
Break
3:00-4:30
Working Technical Session on Best Practices: What has worked and
why? What are opportunities for
collaboration?
Opportunity to examine methods
and case studies in more detail and to discuss opportunities for
collaboration among broader range of participants
4:30-6:00
Reception/Wine and cheese
6:00
Informal Participant debrief
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