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166 <strong>Study</strong> on Forest Landscape Restoration
from the ground up, with the people who live in the landscape and stakeholders
directly affected by the managem<strong>en</strong>t of the landscape. There is no blueprint
for successful forest landscape restoration, since each situation will develop
from local circumstances. Restoring forest landscapes is a tricky business.
There are three common impedim<strong>en</strong>ts to its implem<strong>en</strong>tation: determining the
interests or prefer<strong>en</strong>ces of the various stakeholders, id<strong>en</strong>tification of priority
sites, inc<strong>en</strong>tives and comp<strong>en</strong>sation. The most important factor is to improve
public participation (from on-the-ground practitioners to international organizations
and policy processes concerned with forests) , especially the participation
of local inhabitants.
2. 2 Global partnership on FLR
The joint strategy of WWF and mCN <strong>en</strong>titled "Forests for Life" was one of
the starting points of the initiative on FLR. This initiative set off and consolidated
a global partnership of international organizations and governm<strong>en</strong>tal a­
g<strong>en</strong>cies. Before giving a conclusive definition of "Forest Landscape Restoration"
, the promoters of the Global Partnership focused on two complem<strong>en</strong>tary
aspects: field experi<strong>en</strong>ce and policy dialogue, including an important compon<strong>en</strong>t
of "partnership building". Moving from dialogue to action called for a
dynamic approach to implem<strong>en</strong>tation that built a culture of success after the
term of FLR was coined. This should involve linking inter-governm<strong>en</strong>tal initiatives
with concrete actions at the local and regional level - explicitly linking
policy with practice - and bringing key actors together to share constructive insights
and id<strong>en</strong>tify opportunities. In response to this chall<strong>en</strong>ge, the Global
Partnership on FLR was established and was formally launched in Rome in
March 2003. Its continuing aim is to catalyze and reinforce a network of diverse
examples of forest landscape restoration that deliver b<strong>en</strong>efits to local
communities and nature and contributes to the fulfillm<strong>en</strong>t of international commitm<strong>en</strong>ts
on forests (Dudley M, 2005).
Partners include the governm<strong>en</strong>ts of United Kingdom, K<strong>en</strong>ya, Finland,
the United States, Japan, El Salvador, Italy, Switzerland and South Mrica,
the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, the C<strong>en</strong>tre for International Forestry
Research (CIFOR) , mCN, WWF, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
( FAO), the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) , the