Fire Management - Voluntary Guidelines Principles and Strategic Actions

Fire Management - Voluntary Guidelines

Principles and Strategic Actions

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Fire Management StrategyStrategy to enhance international cooperation

in fire management

Strategy to enhance international cooperation

in fire management

Voluntary guidelines: principles

and strategic actions

Voluntary guidelines: principles

and strategic actions

Implementation: ActionsAlliance

Implementation: ActionsAlliance

Global assessment

2006

Global assessment

2006

Review of international cooperation

2006

Review of international cooperation

2006

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Multi-stakeholder process

• COFO 2005

• Fire specialists and expertconsultations 2006

• Draft voluntary guidelines

• Stakeholder feedback

• Reviewed voluntary guidelines in COFO 2007

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Key Partners In Preparation Process

• UNISDR• US Forest Service• Global Fire Monitoring Center• The World Bank• The Nature Conservancy• Government of Spain• Australasian Fire Authorities Council

• Many other stakeholders

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Content • International, national, sub-national links• Cross sectoral issues• Principles

– Social and cultural– Economic– Environmental– Institutional– Enhanced Capacity

• Strategic Actions• Bibliography• Annexes

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• Global in scope

• Legally non-binding

• For all elements of civil society and the private sector, from policy level to forest owners and land managers

Scope

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ObjectivesPromote sustainable land management by establishing principles for responsible fire- management including: • Facilitating establishment and implementation of policies and planning mechanisms

• Promoting cooperation in fire management between agencies and organizations

• Promoting community-based fire management

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Relationship To Other International Instruments

• To be applied in compliance with: - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, - Convention on Biological Diversity - United Nations Millennium Declaration

• Consolidate and support many existing fire management guidelines, policies, programmes and regulations:

- ITTO, FAO, GFMC - National handbooks, manuals and planning documents

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Social and Cultural Principles

• Sustainable livelihoods - promoted by the appropriate

use and management of fire. • Human health and

security - improved by minimizing the

adverse effects of fire.• Traditional uses of fire - should remain as a practice on

the lands of indigenous peoples and traditional rural communities and be adapted to the current environment.

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Implementation- Translated into 6 languages, other 6 in process- Multi-stakeholder workshops at regional level to define

national needs: Cuba, Trinidad, Indonesia and East Africa

- FAO projects, World Bank, Universities, Private Sector (APRIL), etc.

- Promotion through workshops, side events and expert consultations: AFAC, South East Asian Forestry Week, Silva Mediterranean Fire Group, EU Group of experts, CBFiM workshops, etc.

- Fire Management Actions Alliance

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Community Based Fire Management (CBFiM)

• Emphasis in working with people and using fire as a land management tool.

• Organized together with The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

• South Africa (2004), Belize (2005), Indonesia (2007), and China (2009)

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Voluntary Guidelines

www.fao.org/forestry/firemanagement

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