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Introduction

More than two billion people around the world depend on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for food, shelter, medicine, fuel, and cash income (Source?). Despite their importance for sustaining rural livelihoods, furthering rural poverty alleviation, biodiversity conservation and facilitating rural economic growth, NTFPs have not received the sustained and systematic support given to conventional agriculture and forestry. Instead, they remain largely neglected by national and local government development strategies, donor priorities and often overlooked by the formal private sector. Where markets for NTFPs do exist, informal trade has in many cases led to over-harvesting and led to an opaque trading structures and inefficient markets.

With a more effective regional and inter-regional institutional infrastructure to encourage systematic and sustainable resource management; develop more formal product markets; provide technical, financial, and marketing assistance to producers; and promote policies that facilitate the sustainable use and marketing of NTFPs, this under-harnessed sub-sector could make a significant and ecologically sustainable contribution to rural economies and environment.

The Global Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) Partnership, henceforth referred to as the “Non-Timber Partnership”, will link global, regional, and national organizations currently engaged in research and development activities concerning the systematic conservation and management NTFPs in four regions: Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and South Asia. Leveraging a regionally-focused, global network, the NTFP Partnership will raise the profile of NTFPs and enhance capacities, relevance and effectiveness of partners, producers and all other stakeholders. Through local investments in marketing, management, and policy research relevant to NTFPs production, the Partnership will aim to create a virtuous cycle where success breeds greater interest, and greater interest breeds further success.

Organizational Description and Governance The NTFP partnership’s overall programmes will be determined by a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) to be constituted by the partners based on the fair and balanced representation of the regions, disciplines, capacity and commitment. The PAC chair will be rotating among its member on an annual basis. Subsequently, as the partnership program expands to have nodes in each region and large country, it can have a separate regional/national PAC sub-committee supported by the Partnership coordination office in INBAR. The Chair of these Committees will be offered to the representative of a key partner institution in each region and/or country so as to involve the policy maker’s views and ideas into the partnership development process form the very beginning. This will enable consideration and inclusion of the country/region specific nature of the NTFP development research issues vis-à-vis the perspective, needs and capacity of the larger regional/national development community or the larger outside research system. Each member of the partnership should contribute and enables the regional and global stakeholder in the sustainable and commercial use of NTFP resources and strengthen the action research capacity at the national level.

The partnership will have a 5 member Executive Governing Council representing all its members from four regions and the chair of the Programme Advisory Committee its ex-officio member. Key donors like IFAD, and others will be the permanent invitee and non-voting members. The Council will elect its own chair to be nominated on an annual basis. The Secretariat of the Governing Council will be in INBAR and that of the PAC at one of its regional members.

[…] Madhav and Rama; this section will focus on the various elements and mechanisms of the Partnership, including the Steering Committee, the Coordination Unit, the NTFP and the cross-cutting groups, the regional focal points, and the action research sites.

Vision To promote collaborative efforts, synergies and economies of scale for addressing strategic NTFPs research and development issues of global relevance for contributing in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Mission (madhav’s alternate write-up) Develop, provide, and promote best practices, relevant information sharing, sound technologies, ethical trade