Forestry Livelihood Management
Understand the need, importance of designing, managing, conserving and repairing forests and associated resources (forest-dependent SMEs) for human and environmental benefits.
Type
Domain
Competency Area
Livelihood Development
Levels
Understands the importance of forest-dependent SMEs
Understands the pathways in which forestry can contribute to sustainability
Understands the role of forest-dependent SMEs in development, employment, and their role in poverty alleviation
Recognises the overlapping and intersectional constraints and limitations faced by forest livelihood in operating smoothly and profitably
Aware of evidence based research on sustainability in forest sector
Maps policy priorities to a theory of contraints and devises an overall approach
Understands linkages between forestry and sustainability using the policy framework at the national and state level, particularly focusing on targets under the sustainable development goals
Identifies different stakeholders in the ecosystem and aligns their policy focus with the sub-sectors within forestry
Adopts a “sector-neutral" approach to determine how to create jobs and growth in a sustainable manner
Understands opportunities for SMEs given emerging markets, new business models, competitiveness and know-how insights, financial instruments and opportunities for foreign investors
Aware of the “SME Development Approach”
Conducts needs assessments
Conducts needs assessment for broad challenges faced by SMES(access to capital, access to markets, regulations, etc.) needed by forest livelihood and the service delivery channels
Conducts a diagnostic test of the SME sub-sectors to assess those with actual or potential growth prospects
Analyses the internal and external demand and supply variations in the forest sector
Assesses the skill development needs of SMEs in forestry and the level of informalisation between sub-sectors within forestry
Prepares diagnostic framework of the importance of “livelihood vs competitiveness” approach
Designs forest-dependent SMEs friendly policy
Plans awareness campaigns for forest livelihood about financial incentives, subsidies, innovations, environmental sustainability, water resource planning, etc.
Design policy interventions to support the development of business plans and financial reporting, and facilitate access to finance by acting as a link between SMEs and banks.
Incorporates policy interventions that help in the integration of value chains, better price information, and access to markets
Incorporates three objectives in policy designing: sustainability, growth through job creation, and climate resilience and balances the interventions with natural resource management
Incorporate informational interventions informing SMEs of the demand and supply needs of the market
Cater to elements of production development, sales, financial management and operations
Develop a set of progress indicators that encompass (i) internal project indicators (ii) chain analysis work etc for initial implementation stages for variations in short and long-term effects
Incorporates financial development aspects of modern moveable collateral registry systems and secured transaction frameworks, loan classification systems not reliant primarily on collateral, assess and quantify SME borrower risk, assist credit scoring on thin-file clients
Promotes sustainable livelihood
Augment existing information on a sub-sector by conducting participatory value chain analyses with important stakeholder groups
Promotes advocacy and dissemination of successful interventions/models and contributes in building the capacity of the relevant stakeholders
Propose concrete actions for enhancing the competitiveness of SMES by lifting regulatory constraints, and improving access to financial services, technical support and markets
Promotes multi-sector solutions that support sustainable growth of SMEs in the forest sector and improve knowledge of these solutions among key stakeholders
Conduct country level analysis to estimate SME contribution to the national sustainable development agenda
Create market and policy environments that support competitive and sustainable SMEs in the forest sector
Promote long-term sustainability by providing resource rights to FDHs