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Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau

The Partnership Agreement between the NFP Facility and Guinea-Bissau was finalized in March 2009. The nfp of Guinea-Bissau is being developed as part of a national strategy for the environment geared towards an international and national response to the degradation of the natural environment. The overall objective of this strategy is to reach a sustainable stage of economic development based on judicious utilization of the natural environment, including forests. The Government is committed to this process, relying upon public and non-state stakeholder participation to mobilize the required human and financial resources, reflected in the national forestry master plan (2007). This plan lays out the priorities of the country, which include redefining the policy and strategy for the conservation of the forest cover and the establishment of socio-economic equilibrium with the enhanced participation of local populations and communities.

Faced with inadequate human, technical and financial resources in its efforts to develop a vibrant national forest programme, Guinea-Bissau has requested NFP Facility support to awaken a dormant nfp process. The envision nfp process will work to achieve the following objectives: (i) reviewing and redefining the policy and strategy of the national forestry sector; (ii) building the capacity of national actors in the forest sector to implement the nfp process; (iii) promoting a decentralization of responsibilities and the definition of these responsibilities for the various stakeholder groups in forest management, as well as benefit sharing; and (iv) implementing the national forest policy and strategy for the nfp through a well-established priority action programme. These topics are important because the main bottleneck for the advancement of the nfp in Guinea-Bissau is in the area of limited human and technical capacity of state and non-state stakeholders to participate meaningfully in the nfp process. Towards this end, national forest policy directives and strategies need to be reviewed in order to make room for multi-stakeholder participation in the process, both in the formulation and implementation of policies. 

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