Download First Workshop on Forest Financing in Small Island Developing

Presented by:
Tini Duburiya
Tirah Jeremiah
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Short term Goals
A Forest Management plan developed 2012
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Mid Term Goals
Forest management plan implemented starting with reforestation of
the mines areas 2015
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Long terms Goals
Reforestation of the mined areas 15% completed commercial viable
forestry and agro forestry Products indentified and associated
business plans developed 2025
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Commerce, Industry and Environment (CIE)
Micro Financing for the promotion of small business
Biodiversity
Climate change
Agriculture
Water related issue
Sustainable Land Management
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Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation (NRC)
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Rehabilitation of mined out land
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Community Based Organisation (CBO)
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Community Environment cleaning and planting of trees
Multilateral
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Secretariat of the Pacific Commission
Global Environment Facilities
United Nations Development Program
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Bilateral
Mainly Taiwan and Japan
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Local Govt not considering this issue as a
priority, even though it is clearly written in
our revised NSDS
Implementing agency not very (CIE) and (NRC)
active in the forest sector
Community based organisation focus on
infrastructure development, social
development, and environment cleaning
Land in Nauru are freehold land and
Government have to either lease the land or
purchase it for forest conservation.
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Funding are injected into other environment
projects (water, Climate change, Biodiversity
etc)
Community competition sponsored by
Government and local organisation only focus
on cleaning and clearing and not planting of
trees.
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Similar to the programme here in Trinidad and Tobago,
Budget for this program is funded by local government, which
started 8th August 2011
Community based organisation
Objective of this program is environment cleaning and
replanting
Led by the Chief Secretary Department
It been proven successful
There is potential, for this program to expand and enter in
the Forestry sector.
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Two Programs in regards to Forest
1. Reforestation
final phase of the rehabilitation of the mined out phosphate land. The program consist
of designing new soil profiles to match the land use, mulching and composting organic
waste to mix with existing stock of topsoil (estimated to be around 1 million tonnes)
that has been stored in open weather for a good 40 years in some cases as means of
reintroducing nutrients into the soil, propagating local and exotic species of trees in a
nursery with capacity to handle 60,000 plants per year and finally transplanting the
trees out in the field on rehabilitated land.
2. Nursery
seedling operation propagating native flora particularly the endangered
species, root crops and local ornamental plants. Current records show
that the Nursery has planted a total of 1,598 flora seedlings
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GEF and UNCCD funded program
Is schedule to complete a National Action
Plan in two to three months time
Next phase will be the implementation but
there is no funding available.
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Still in a draft form
An environment lawyer from ICUN and a
group of expert from SPREP will be in Nauru
this July to work on the legislation.
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Due to the slow operation of rehabilitation in the mining area,
Government Department in collaboration with NRC are working
together on the expansion of nursery, but this does still need
financial assistance
Nauru is developing conservation plans, working hard on writing a
good environment management bill that can actually be
implemented with the capacity on the ground so having all of these
plans, just need resources and technical assistance to make this
vision a reality.
Ma Tubwa Korr Owak
Thank you
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