Towards national ownership in forestry sector development? possibilities and constrains of forestry sector support
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The current international development co-operation aims to build sector wide approach
programmes (SWAPs), programme based co-operation through budget support and joint
financing arrangements with other donors in order to enhance recipient governments’
ownership. In this paper we aim to clarify the shift from project approach towards SWAPs in
forestry sector. We argue that forestry SWAPs can take place in countries where there are
clear sector policies and development strategies for forestry, government and donor’s
commitment to support the forestry sector and willingness to harmonise the donor support. It
is important to acknowledge that to develop SWAPs in the forestry sector is a long-term
process that is related to other reforms and policy changes in each specific country. The
whole process of developing a SWAP is complicated and highly dependent on the
development of the quality of government systems and an adequate institutional capacity of
forestry sector. Also, we have recognised that there is an emerging understanding among the
stakeholders that the key factors influencing to the management of forests lay outside of the
forest sector. The complexity of the forest sector, and rural development in general, need to
be tackled and supported in different ways. The current paper gives examples of Finnish
supported forestry development programmes and the purpose of the paper is to discuss the
possibilities and barriers of the allocation of the support to forest sector under the partner
countries’ own national development frameworks for forestry.