Worksheet 5: Social and Community Issues for Inclusion in the Planning

Place a check mark in front of each issue that needs explicit attention in the planning. Each member of your planning team and its advisory committee(s) should do this individually. Then, meet as a group to compare and discuss your responses. (Link with Worksheets 2-4).

Main Themes

Issues to Be Considered in the Planning Agenda

Tenure and Use Rights - Ownership, usufruct, and control of forested lands. Use rights for trees on private and communal lands.

Actions to clarify conflicts between legal (de jure) and customary (de facto) rights.
Efforts to identify areas where use rights are unclear or disputed.
Legal, administrative, and policy actions to strengthen traditional use rights.

Organizational and Managerial Capacity - Community arrangements to protect and manage trees and forests. Institutional structures; collective management.

Actions by your government to recognize traditional systems of authority and accountability to protect trees and forests.
Adapting your agency's forest utilization contracts for the financial, technical, and managerial capacities of indigenous and peasant communities.

Appropriate Technology and Incentives - Encouraging techniques that are consistent with local knowledge and financial means.

Policies, programs, and projects to encourage small-scale and labor-intensive methods (e.g., in forest harvesting and processing).
Adapting your agency's extension program to serve indigenous and peasant forest users.
Joint ventures with private or public partners when communities lack sufficient finance or market access.

Participation in Agency Decisions - In planning, policymaking, projects.

Actions to help your agency elevate the position of indigenous and peasant groups as clients of your agency.
Possible priorities for community groups in agency employment, training, and incentives programs.

Main Themes	Issues to Be Considered in the Planning Agenda
Tenure and Use Rights - Ownership, usufruct, and control of forested lands. Use rights for trees on private and communal lands.	Actions to clarify conflicts between legal (de jure) and customary (de facto) rights. Efforts to identify areas where use rights are unclear or disputed. Legal, administrative, and policy actions to strengthen traditional use rights.
Organizational and Managerial Capacity - Community arrangements to protect and manage trees and forests. Institutional structures; collective management.	Actions by your government to recognize traditional systems of authority and accountability to protect trees and forests. Adapting your agency's forest utilization contracts for the financial, technical, and managerial capacities of indigenous and peasant communities.
Appropriate Technology and Incentives - Encouraging techniques that are consistent with local knowledge and financial means.	Policies, programs, and projects to encourage small-scale and labor-intensive methods (e.g., in forest harvesting and processing). Adapting your agency's extension program to serve indigenous and peasant forest users. Joint ventures with private or public partners when communities lack sufficient finance or market access.
Participation in Agency Decisions - In planning, policymaking, projects.	Actions to help your agency elevate the position of indigenous and peasant groups as clients of your agency. Possible priorities for community groups in agency employment, training, and incentives programs.