Core Documents

  • Forest Partnerships Facility proposal - draft November 2011

    Draft proposal for a new phase of the National Forest Programme and the Growing Forest Partnerships - to be known as the 'Forest Partnerships Facility' (2012-2017).

  • GFP brochure 2011

    What is Growing Forest Partnerships? Who is involved? What does GFP do on the ground? What countries are involved? How does GFP work with The Forest Dialogue and the 'G3' Rightsholders Group?

    All these questions and more are answered in this short informative brochure!

  • Growing Forest Partnerships - Framework Document (January 2010)

    This document provides the background and framework for the GFP initiative.

  • Mid-Term Review : January 2011, summary and language versions

    The Mid-Term Review was commissioned by the International Institute of Environment and Development in July 2010. This printed version contains only the ‘Executive Summary’ and the ‘Recommendations’. See full English version. Print version comes with CD-Rom enclosed

  • Mid-Term Review : January 2011

    Mid-Term Review of the Growing Forest Partnerships Initiative.

    The GFP is an initiative that proposes to help create partnerships between and amongst different stakeholders and to strengthen ways of working together for the benefit of forests and the people that depend on them. The origins of the GFP initiative lie within the World Bank, as it tried some four years ago to define a future form of collaboration with a wide range of institutions in the delivery of its forest sector programmes. GFP has come into being at an extremely challenging time for the world’s forests and forest-dwellers: the global forestclimate dialogue holds promise for forests gaining great monetary value in future climate mitigation regimes, yet the ownership of these resources and the rights of those whose livelihoods depend on them, are broadly unresolved. It is in this domain that GFP aspires to catalyse a new global dynamic.

  • GFP film and video guidance

    IIED just produced a film and video guide to provide a simple overview of film or video-making with some elementary guidance on both the technical and practical side of the process.

  • Consultation, assessment and recommendations

    This report is the main output of an independent consultation and assessment exercise carried out by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), to explore the rationale, strategy and structure of a proposal, originally from the World Bank, for a Global Forest Partnership (GFP). IIED’s work was supported by a grant from the World Bank.

  • 2011 GFP Workplan

    Workplan for the year 2011 detailing:

    • GFP Internal tasks
    • Parnership development activities
    • GFP Outreach
  • GFP Lessons learned 2009/10

    This document compiles and summarises the main lessons learned during GFP‟s inception
    phase and first year and a half of implementation (mid 2009 – September 2010). The
    information comes from GFP Catalytic Group internal briefings and exchanges and various
    reports submitted to the World Bank1 between March 2009 and August 2010.

    This is a ever evolving working document; it has been drafted with inputs from the Catalytic
    Group members and in the future it will include those of GFP country partners.

  • Forest partnerships at the grassroots level

    Growing Forest Partnerships has now been operational as an initiative for 18 months now, having started its first discussions with partners in-country in February and March 2009. The initiative as a whole was started in order to catalyse and reinforce effective partnerships that deliver real results for forests and people: its stated vision is that it is “an initiative that helps create and strengthen ways of working together for the benefit of forests and the people that depend on them”.