INTERLAKEN+10 - Governing forest landscapes

Country-led initiative (CLI) in support of UNFF
INTERLAKEN+10 - Governing forest landscapes
Lessons learnt from ten years of experience and the way forward post-2015
3rd to 6th February 2015 in Interlaken, Switzerland
Agenda
Monday 2nd February
Arrival of participants
17:00-20:00
Registration for the workshop and the field-trips
Venue: Foyer, Congress Centre Kursaal Interlaken
Tuesday 3rd February
07:30-09:00
Registration for the workshop and the field-trips
Venue: Foyer, Congress Centre Kursaal Interlaken
09:00-10:00
Opening of the workshop by official representatives
Venue: Congress Hall




Josef Hess, Vice-Director, Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
Dominique Favre, Deputy Head Global Cooperation, Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Manoel Sobral, Head of the UNFF Secretariat
Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary General UN DESA
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-12:30
Plenary
Venue: Congress Hall



The UNFF CLIs on forest governance – impact and the way forward; Objectives
of the CLI Interlaken+10, Christian Kuechli, FOEN
An analytical look back on ten years of experience working on forest
governance, Carol Colfer
Panel of CLI host countries
Country representatives, facilitator: Doris Capistrano
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Venue: Theatre Room
14:00-15:00
Plenary
Venue: Congress Hall


02/02/2015
Summary of outcomes of the second meeting of the Ad-hoc Expert Group
(AHEG2) on the International Arrangement on Forests (IAF) held in January in
New York, Charles Barber, WRI and Co-Chair of AHEG2, and Hossein MoeiniMeybodi, UNFF Secretariat
Summary of the findings of the independent assessment of the International
Arrangement on Forests (IAF), Juergen Blaser, Bern University of Applied
Sciences, HAFL
1

Introduction to group work, Juergen Blaser
15:00-15:30
Break on the way to group work
15:30-17:00
Review of forest governance experience and identification of challenges for
governance and ways to address these,
work in regional groups and one global group





18:30
Africa
Venue: Brünig 1, facilitator: Godwin Kowero
Asia and Middle East
Venue: Susten, facilitator: Bharat Pokharel
Latin America
Venue: Rugen, facilitator: Veronica Galmez
Europe, Central Asia and North America
Venue: Brünig 3, facilitator: Rob Busink
Global group
Venue: Grimsel 1, facilitator: Hosny El-Lakany
Dinner reception
Venue: Spycher
Wednesday 4th February
08:30
Plenary: Introduction to the thematic sessions
Venue: Congress Hall
08:45-10:30
Thematic sessions (in parallel)
Session 1: Forest tenure and decentralisation
Venue: Brünig
 Eva Muller, FAO
 Jenny Springer, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
 Bharat Pokharel and Kaspar Schmidt, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
 Steven Lawry, CIFOR (moderator, rapporteur)
Session 2: Forest landscape governance and green economy
Venue: Grimsel
 Meine Van Noordwijk, ICRAF
 Rob Busink, Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands
 Kit Prins, consultant UNECE/FAO Joint Forestry and Timber Section
 Ivonne Higuero, UNECE/FAO (moderator)
 Ekrem Yazici, UNECE/FAO (rapporteur)
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:45
Thematic sessions (in parallel)
Session 3: Forest governance and biodiversity
Venue: Brünig
 Herbert Christ, giz
 Chris Buss, IUCN
02/02/2015
2
Session 4: Forest governance and safeguards in REDD+ implementation
Venue: Grimsel
 Maria Brockhaus, CIFOR
 Thais Linhares-Juvenal, UN-REDD Programme Secretariat
 Marlea Muñez, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Philippines
 Tina Solvberg, UN-REDD UNDP (discussant, rapporteur)
 Keith Anderson, FOEN (moderator)
12:45-13:45
Lunch
Venue: Theatre Room
13:45-14:00
Plenary: Flash feedbacks from the thematic sessions held in the morning
Venue: Congress Hall
14:00-15:30
Identification of key issues and recommendations for the future governance of
forest landscapes in the context of the emerging post-2015 agenda,
work in regional groups and one global group





Africa
Venue: Brünig 1, facilitator: Godwin Kowero
Asia and Middle East
Venue: Susten, facilitator: Bharat Pokharel
Latin America
Venue: Rugen, facilitator: Veronica Galmez
Europe, Central Asia and North America
Venue: Brünig 3, facilitator: Rob Busink
Global group
Venue: Grimsel 1, facilitator: Hosny El-Lakany
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:30
World Café: Discussions and exchange on key issues for the future governance of
forest landscapes
Venue: Congress Hall
18:00
Networking reception ‘Youth Group meets Professionals’ hosted by the participants
of the parallel conference ‘Youth’
Venue: Theatre Room
Thursday 5th February
Please come equipped for the field trips (warm clothes, good foot wear with which you can walk in
the snow) to the plenary session. We shall leave for the field trips from the workshop venue at 11
am immediately after the break in the morning.
08:30
Plenary: Reporting from the World Café by the table hosts
Venue: Congress Hall
09:30-10:30
Plenary: Summary of discussions and deliberations held in the regional groups and
the global group
Group facilitators, Doris Capistrano, Juergen Blaser
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00
Departure on field trips, coaches wait in front of the workshop venue
02/02/2015
3
11:00approx 21:00
Field trips



Field trip 1: Lauterbrunnen – Murren: A walk in the snow with glimpses at the
landscape
Field trip 2: Boltigen: Governance in the landscape of Simmental: community
forests and alpine pastures
Field trip 3: Emmental: Private forests in a mosaic landscape
Lunch and dinner on the field trips
Descriptions of the field trips are available on http://unff-interlaken10.org/field-trip
Friday 6th February
08:30-09:00
Plenary: Short thematic inputs
Venue: Congress Hall
09:00-09:30
Plenary: Presentation of main draft recommendations of the CLI by Doris
Capistrano and Christoph Duerr, FOEN
Venue: Congress Hall
09:30-10:00
Break
10:00-12:30
Roundtable: Global experience with forest governance monitoring and assessment
and ways forward
Venue: Congress Hall
Convener: Nalin Kishor, PROFOR





Summary of regional FLEG processes and follow-up activities
Nalin Kishor
A framework for assessing and monitoring forest governance
Doris Capistrano
Measuring forest governance with the available approaches
Nalin Kishor
Practical considerations and real-life challenges in measuring forest
governance
Interactive session with country experts: Amina Bohero, Tanzania, Marina
Smetanina, Russia, and Abdul Situmorang, Indonesia
Future of forest governance assessments
Roundtable discussion: Eva Muller, FAO, Tina Solvberg, UNDP, Herbert Christ,
giz, and Juergen Blaser HAFL
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Venue: Theatre Room
14:00
Distribution of draft report on the CLI
14:00-15:00
Discussion of draft recommendations of the CLI,
work in regional groups and one global group


02/02/2015
Africa
Venue: Brünig 1, facilitator: Godwin Kowero
Asia and Middle East
Venue: Susten, facilitator: Bharat Pokharel
4



Latin America
Venue: Rugen, facilitator: Veronica Galmez
Europe, Central Asia and North America
Venue: Brünig 3, facilitator: Rob Busink
Global group
Venue: Grimsel 1, facilitator: Hosny El-Lakany
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-17:00
Concluding plenary of the CLI Interlaken+10
Venue: Congress Hall



17:00
02/02/2015
Input by the Bureau of UNFF11: considerations on the future International
Arrangement on Forests (IAF)
Report from the parallel conference ‘Youth’
Discussion and adoption of the draft report on the CLI and its recommendations
to the UNFF, facilitator: Juergen Blaser
Closing of the workshop by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the
UNFF Secretariat
5