NFP Facility Partnership

Caribbean Natural Resources Institute

The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) is a non-profit organisation registered in St. Lucia, St. Croix and Trinidad and Tobago, with its main office in Port of Spain, Trinidad and a small office in Barbados. CANARI's geographic focus is the islands of the Caribbean but its research findings are often relevant and disseminated to the wider region. During 2001 and 2002, CANARI carried out an assessment of participatory forest management. The assessment identified three main areas of need: i) increase stakeholder capacity building in participatory processes; ii) improve institutional frameworks for participatory forest policy and its integration into national sustainable development strategies; and iii) develop and transfer methods for sustainable forest management through the identification, documentation, and dissemination of innovative and effective forest management practices. In 2005, building on the information from this assessment, the NFP Facility and CANARI entered into a Partnership Agreement focused on facilitating and stimulating stakeholder participation in forest policy development and forest management in seven Caribbean Island states.

Points of Contact

• NFP Focal Point
  Ms. Nicole Leotaud
• NFP Facility Coach
  Claus Eckelmann

Implemented Activities

• August 2011
  

  Testing the bottom-up approach to changing policy and practice of participatory forest management via implementation of a public awareness and outreach programme in St. Vincent and the Grenadines targeted at the general public and sharing the results of the exercise and the products of the campaign with the other project countries

  Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
• March 2011
  

  In support of preparing a regional study on community forestry in the Caribbean.

  Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
• June 2010
  

  (i) Review the design and implement a second round of small grants for civil society organisations; (ii) design, plan and execute three exchange visits; and (iii) conduct an independent evaluation of the three year NFP Facility-funded project "Participatory Forest Management: Improving policy and institutional capacity for development"

  Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
• November 2008
  

  Set up and monitor a small grant scheme, implement local action learning projects and organize training activities in four countries to demonstrate the socioeconomic and environmental benefits that can be derived from participatory forest management of forest resources at the regional, national and local levels

  Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
• December 2006
  

  Improving the socioeconomic and environmental benefits that can be derived from forest management

  Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
• July 2005
  

  Improving the socioeconomic and environmental benefits derived from forest management

  Caribbean Natural Resources Institute