Policy & Strategy Development
Effective policy and planning responds to the needs of civil society, the private sector and governments. It is evidence based, provides clear vision and direction for the future and a framework for implementation. Governments are required to facilitate agreement on a viable path of change, rather than simply listing what change is needed. A broad range of stakeholders must understand and fully engage with the political and economic realities in a public dialogue, and build consensus.
A policy process requires that appropriate incentives for change are identified and organisational incentives aligned with the proposed policy direction. The process must link to wider public sector and development processes, and be pragmatic about actions on key areas, such as setting out how decentralisation and privatisation will work. It also must be dynamic and flexible.
Our team provides a wide range of high-level institutional and technical expertise, typically through 'process support', to meet individual country demands in initiating and implementing national forest programmes (NFPs) - internationally accepted best practice in policy and strategy development and monitoring in the forest sector, LTS can accelerate learning and adaptation by sharing our extensive NFP experience gained throughout Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
...we facilitate practical and inclusive approaches to policy and strategy development processes in forestry, land use, agriculture, rural development, and related fields...
Our specialist team can:
- Identify the opportunities, and design national policy and strategy development processes bringing together different stakeholders with a focus on improving governance.
- Map policy, and support new analysis on practical approaches to ensure the policy ambitions and instruments that affect the forest sector, are compatible with processes by which they are implemented, monitored and reviewed.
- Incorporate best practice in the design of legal frameworks and regulatory structures, elaboration of national standards and guidelines, and technical criteria and indicators.
- Guide international organisations in developing their capacity on policy - through regional activities, shared learning, or helping to identify where development partners can best add-value to ongoing processes.
Relevant case studies of our recent work are provided here.
