Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines
Principles and Strategic Actions
Fire Management Strategy
Strategy to enhance international cooperation
in fire management
Global
assessment
2006
Review of
international
cooperation
2006
Voluntary
guidelines:
principles
and strategic
actions
Implementation:
Actions
Alliance
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Multi-stakeholder process
• COFO 2005
• Fire specialists and expert
consultations 2006
• Draft voluntary guidelines
• Stakeholder feedback
• Reviewed voluntary guidelines
in COFO 2007
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Key Partners In Preparation Process
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UNISDR
US Forest Service
Global Fire Monitoring Center
The World Bank
The Nature Conservancy
Government of Spain
Australasian Fire Authorities Council
• Many other stakeholders
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Content
• International, national, sub-national links
• Cross sectoral issues
• Principles
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Social and cultural
Economic
Environmental
Institutional
Enhanced Capacity
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Strategic Actions
• Bibliography
• Annexes
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Scope
• Global in scope
• Legally non-binding
• For all elements of civil society and the
private sector, from policy level to forest
owners and land managers
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Objectives
Promote sustainable land management by
establishing principles for responsible firemanagement including:
• Facilitating establishment and implementation of
policies and planning mechanisms
• Promoting cooperation in
fire management
between agencies and
organizations
• Promoting communitybased fire management
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Relationship To Other International
Instruments
• To be applied in compliance with:
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification,
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- United Nations Millennium Declaration
• Consolidate and support many existing
fire management guidelines, policies,
programmes and regulations:
- ITTO, FAO, GFMC
- National handbooks, manuals and planning documents
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Social and Cultural Principles
• Sustainable livelihoods
- promoted by the appropriate
use and management of fire.
• Human health and
security
- improved by minimizing the
adverse effects of fire.
• Traditional uses of fire
- should remain as a practice on
the lands of indigenous peoples
and traditional rural
communities and be adapted to
the current environment.
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Implementation
- Translated into 6 languages, other 6 in process
- Multi-stakeholder workshops at regional level to define
national needs: Cuba, Trinidad, Indonesia and East
Africa
- FAO projects, World Bank, Universities, Private Sector
(APRIL), etc.
- Promotion through workshops, side events and expert
consultations: AFAC, South East Asian Forestry Week,
Silva Mediterranean Fire Group, EU Group of experts,
CBFiM workshops, etc.
- Fire Management Actions Alliance
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Community Based Fire Management
(CBFiM)
• Emphasis in working with people and
using fire as a land management tool.
• Organized together with The Nature
Conservancy (TNC)
• South Africa (2004),
Belize (2005),
Indonesia (2007),
and China (2009)
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Voluntary Guidelines
THANK YOU
www.fao.org/forestry/firemanagement
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