Reflections on Principles for Architecture for the 21 st Century

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1 Reflections on Principles for Architecture for the 21 st Century Background: 1. We (you) are unique, and have a unique opportunity (and we all have a responsibility) to add value; 2. There is a demand (and a need) for your voice (on these forest governance and development issues; 3. We have been meeting and discussing issues facing forestry and agencies for 8 years and have learned a lot, developed a lot of common understanding including on principles of architecture

2 Emerging Principles (not necessarily in order of priority) 1. Set goals first, adjust structure as necessary (i.e. promoting sustainable forestry and prosperity, and being willing (and eager) to change structure. Agencies should constantly explore, assess, prove, ways to improve and serve citizens; No single recommended structure, 2. Essential to (really) listen to your citizens and constituencies, establish mechanisms (spaces) to respond, adjust, empower them to monitor you, themselves, all actors, and develop alternatives, engage in policy formulation 3. Clarification of tenure, and ensuring recognition of land rights of communities is an essential step, and a priority in many countries, and should be promoted by agencies and work with and encourage other ministries to address this challenge; 4. Transparency, good information, accessible to all is essential, enabling the agency to stay on track and citizens to help, (and particular need to get better data on NTFPs, SMFEs, services, etc, the non-traditional forest industry 5. Promote more inclusive, effective, governance from command and control to more responsive structures, more efficient, more strategic, more forward looking, and relevant to local communities, citizens.

3 Emerging Principles (not necessarily in order of priority) 6. Take advantage of convening power, pro-actively engage other landbased ministries and private actors to rethink governance, become more effective, efficient, etc. 7. Need to do more to ensure rights and roles of women, as landowners, as citizen participants in policy, as staff and as leaders. 8. Prioritize development of new skills and capacity for social/community engagement, conflict management, rethink the curriculums of forestry schools and ensure staff development in these areas; 9. Proactively search for new partnerships with private actors, other sectors, civil society engage them in the challenge of promoting sustainable forests and prosperous communities across the landscape; 10. Agencies need to strengthen capacities for communication 11. As leaders serve a key role as buffers, between political forces and staff

4 Architecture of 21 st Century Forest Agencies Principles, Models, and Best Practices

5 Principles/Models PRINCIPLES: Need for Inter-Sectoral Collaboration Addresses discord in policy and decisions across agriculture, mining, etc. MODELS/BEST PRACTICES BC Organization Model Cross Sectoral Commissions/Dialogu es Indonesia s One Map' Effective Stakeholder Engagement Builds external support for agency agenda/changes desired Brazil Forest Commission US Planning Rule Federal Advisory

6 Principles/Models PRINCIPLES: Building Political Support for Change Addresses ways to present change to political leadership, who often have short-term goals with limited knowledge of forestry s role and potenial Resolving tenure/recognizing rights Security for citizens and indigenous groups--for economic prosperity, risk reduction for investors MODELS/BEST PRACTICES US Planning Rule Federal Advisory Committee Cameroon/Indonesia Tenure Dialogues

7 Principles/Models Enabling landscape scale decisions when appropriate Re-Thinking Regulations to address contemporary issues Reducing bureaucracy and inefficiencies to support communities and stakeholders and enhance effectiveness. Sweden model Montana US model?? BC Model Increasing Transparency in decision-making Increase trust within and outside government with stakeholders, including business, communalities

8 Principles/Models Decentralizing decisions to appropriate levels. Sweden model Montana US model?? BC Model