Community-Based Forest Management
Type: Approaches
Creation: 2017-03-14 16:42 Updated: 2017-03-14 16:59
Compilers: Isabelita Austria
Reviewers: Deborah Niggli
Country/ region/ locations where the Approach has been applied
- Country: Philippines
- Region/ State/ Province: Bayombong
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Description of the SLM Approach
Short description of the Approach
Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) refers to the organized efforts to work with communities in and near public forestlands with the intent to protect, rehabilitate, manage, conserve, and utilize the resources in partnership with the Local Government Units (LGUs) and other stakeholders.
Detailed description of the Approach
The objectives of the CBFM are the following: to develop, protect, conserve and utilize forest lands through sustainable forest management practices; to generate additional income for forest communities towards poverty reduction and hunger mitigation in the uplands; to promote equity through the provision of long term land tenure security and access to forest resources through issuance of CBFM agreements and certificate of stewardship; and to enhance the capacity of CBFM agreement holders as climate-resilient forest land resources managers.
The methods involved in the approach include agroforestry, plantation establishment, enrichment planting ,forest protection and conservation of existing forests. Agroforestry is the combination of forest trees, fruit trees and annual crops including livestock in the same piece of land. Plantation establishment is growing of forest trees in degraded grassland areas. Part of the enrichment planting is growing of rattan 'littuko', fruit trees, and indigenous species (dipterocarp,etc) along with existing trees in the area to improve forest cover and species diversification.
The project of CBFM in Nueva Vizcaya was initiated in 1998 and ended in 2002.The stages of implementation started with the preparatory stage, then the People's Organization formation and issuance of tenure instrument. It was followed by the planning stage, implementation stage then the monitoring, assessment and reporting stage.
The stakeholders in the approach are the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Community or the People's Organization (PO), Local Government Unit (LGU), Non-government organizations, other government agencies, academe, private sector and donor institution. DENR provided the funding support in the implementation of CBFM, twenty five(25) years security of tenure renewable for another 25 years to qualified organization of forest occupant in the management of forestlands thru CBFM agreement, provision of technical assistance, formulation of guidelines, monitoring and evaluation. The POs serve as managers of the forestlands allocated to them through CBFM agreement. They are responsible in the development, protection, and maintenance of the area. The LGU provides support to communities in the implementation of CBFM within its jurisdiction.