Facilitators:
1. Dr. Harry Santoso, MOF Indonesia  
2. Mr. Ali Yusop, Forestry Dept. Sarawak, Malaysia

Slide 1: WG-2 : REHABILITATION AND REFORESTATION OF DEGRADED FOREST/LAND

The Working Group was agreed to formulate action oriented activities based on several points provided by AFP Second Meeting (July, 2003), and taking into consideration some issues raised in plenary session by persenter from China, Vietnam, IGES, Institute for Century Systems and CIFOR.

Participants - concerns with issues included :

• Need to define and classify "Degraded" forest / lands
• Need to define and classify types of reforestation / rehabilitation
• Funding sources and potential partners for action plan and implementation should be explored, including : private sector, carbon sequestration (CDM), debt for nature swaps (DNS), global environtment facility (GEF).

Slide 2

• Priority locations according to availability of funds and the objective of reforestation (restoration of watershed, forest function, rural development)
• Identifying incentive and disincentive instruments for stimulating reforestation and plantation programme in degraded forest / land
• Risk assessment (anticipated success / failure of the rehabilitation and reforestation, e.g fire, encroachment )
• Reviewing/compiling research finding for rehabilitation and reforestation programme
• Data needs assessment for selecting and planting reforestation (incl. biophysical, socio-economic, institutional, etc.)
• Partnership between government and private sector for promoting private investment
• Local / regional campaign to make concrete incentives for forest plantation (price premium and deregulation)
• Conflict resolution between land/resource users

Slide 3

• Involving local communities in the rehabilitation/ reforestation approach and program is a key factor, including how to increase their ability to take action
• Proposed project for rehabilitation and reforestation should take into account social problems including poverty reduction in their location, as well as contribute to social (rural) welfare through multi-sectoral approach

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