Fire Management - Voluntary Guidelines Principles and Strategic Actions
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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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