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iii.iv.Create enabling environment for providing technical backstopping to promote privateforestry.Create enabling environment and mechanism for harvesting and marketing of forestproduce from the private forests.2.5.5 Forest Based IndustriesTo enable an economically viable, environmentally friendly and efficient forest basedindustry aimed at adding value to forest products and build capacity of private sector andrural communities to utilise, process and market forest products, the following policymeasures shall be pursued;A. Wood basedi. Ensure that policies concerning private sector investment in utilising and marketingforest products, including permits, taxes, licenses, leases, etc. do not have a perverseeffect on the ability of the private sector to engage in the profitable, and sustainableutilisation and marketing of forest products.ii.iii.iv.Promote efficient wood processing technologies and reduce wastage.Provide resource information and appropriate technology to support forest basedindustries.Create improved information technology system for planning.v. Promote establishment of industries based on sound resource assessment andfeasibility.vi.vii.viii.ix.Support industries to develop commercial plantation forests, including on leased GRFland to produce industrial raw material.Promote environment friendly technology advancement, facilitate technicalbackstopping and provide a basis for growth of wood based industries in the countrythrough the creation a wood products processing training, advisory and researchcentre within the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests.Create enabling environment for value addition of timber within the country.Ensure proper management of wastes from wood based industries.x. Establish strong monitoring and evaluation mechanism.B. Non-wood Forest Productsxi.Strengthen the rights and responsibilities of local communities to regulate access anduse of NWFPs.13
xii.xiii.xiv.xiii.xiv.xv.xvi.xvii.xviii.Manage NWFPs based on principles of good governance to ensure transparency,accountability, participation, predictability, empowerment, inclusiveness, equity andbenefit sharing, and in line with decentralisation and devolution policies.Manage NWFPs by applying principles of sustainable forest management based onsound resource assessment and/or sustainable harvesting regimes to achieveecological, social and economic objectives.Enhance sustainable rural livelihoods through income generating opportunities,creation of on and off farm employment opportunities and strengthen communityskills related to such opportunities contributing to rural poverty reduction.Provide technical assistance to local communities to facilitate their ability tosustainably harvest, process and efficiently and economically market selectedNWFPs, aimed at maximising local income generation.Promote establishment of enterprises that can add value to the processing andmarketing of NWFPs.Interface contemporary management and institutional arrangements with indigenousand traditional approaches to management of NWFPs.Create an enabling regulatory, technical backstopping and extension framework forNWFPs management and marketing.Monitor and evaluate the biophysical and socio-economic outcomes of NWFPs.Establish strong monitoring and evaluation mechanism.2.6 Institutional ArrangementsTo establish a dynamic organisational set up with appropriate managerial and technicalcapacity to implement all policy objectives, following institutional policy measures shall bepursued:i. Institutional and organizational reviews and organisational structures of the ForestDepartment and related agencies shall be based on arrangements to best implementthe national forest policy objectives.ii.iii.iv.Carry out Institutional reforms to ensure coordinated and effective decentralisationand devolution of authority with clear mandates and functions at various levels.Carry out effective coordination mechanisms between the Department of Forest andother stakeholders for implementing crosscutting issues.Ensure effective coordination between the Government and relevant InternationalAgencies to ensure that the requirements and commitments to Regional andInternational Agreements, Conventions and Instruments related to forest are reflectedin forestry plans, programmes and implementation.14
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