BRIEFING PAPER:

The World Bank’s Forest Policy Implementation Review and Strategy Development ( FPIRS )
Prepared by: World Rainforest Movement,
Forest Peoples Programme and
Environmental Defense Fund.
May 1999

Table of Contents

- The World Bank’s Forest Policy Implementation Review and Strategy Development (FPIRS)
- Importance of the World Bank's Forest Policy
- A short history
- What's new?
- Second guessing the Bank’s vision
- The FPIRS process
- Related processes
- Key Concerns
1. OED Process
2. Strategy Development Process
3. Plantations
4. Forestry Projects
5. Community Forestry and collaborative protected area management
6. Cross-Sectoral Issues
- Recommendations to Influence the Process
- Recommendations to Influence the Bank's Policy

Appendix 1: The 1991 policy: key commitments made in ‘The Forest Sector: a World Bank Policy Paper’ (Sector), ‘Operational Policy 4.36: Forestry’ (OP) and Guidelines and Best Practice 4.36: Forestry’ (GBP)

Appendix 2: The 1994 Forest Policy Implementation Review: WRM concerns

Design and layout by Ken Walsh, EDF

For further information contact:

Ricardo Carrere
World Rainforest Movement, Uruguay
email: rcarrere@chasque.apc.org
telephone: (598 2) 4096192
Fax: (598 2) 4019222

Marcus Colchester
Forest Peoples Programme, United Kingdom
email: marcus@fppwrm.gn.apc.org
telephone: 44-1608-652893
fax: 44-1608-652878

Korinna Horta
Environmental Defense Fund, USA
email: korinna_horta@edf.org
telephone: -1 202-387 3500
fax: 1-202-234 6049

For World Bank information on the FPIRS :
email: msherman@worldbank.org or see
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/forestpol-e.nsf/MainView?OpenView