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Kenya Forest Service Board

February 2007

The following people have been appointed to the Kenya Forest Service board via Gazette Notice number 1189 by the Minister for Environment and Natural Resources
1. PS, Ministry of Environment and     Natural Resources
2. PS, Ministry of Water and     Irrigation
3. PS, Ministry of Finance
4. PS, Ministry of Local Government
5. Director, Kenya Wildlife Service
6. Director General - National     Environment Management     Authority
7. Director, Kenya Forestry     Research Institute
8. Director, Kenya Forest Service
9. Nancy Karuta Gitonga
10. Prof. Eric K Koech
11. Christine Mbuve Wasanga
12. J.S. Rai
13. E A Ochieng Obado
14. Dr. Nakurro Joseph Leboo
15. Major Njoroge Humphrey       Wainaina
16. Julia Bahati Nyaga

Draft Certification Standards Available For Public Input

Forest certification is a management tool that clearly identifies forest owners and managers adhering to good forest practices and at the same time rewarding them. The reward is through market incentives. Forest certification as a process of assessing a forest and providing the findings in form of labeling the products has been used in many countries with encouraging results. Standards against which the practices are measured are developed by various stakeholders. In Kenya, the Forest Stewardship Council has come up with draft guidelines for which public opinion is invited.

Environmental Policy for Kenya: Communities Speak On 6^th December 2007, the FAN with funding from MS Kenya and the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF/SGP) brought together community representatives from Coast, Eastern, Nyanza, North- Eastern, Rift Valley and Western provinces to discuss the formulation of the country’s Environment Policy. Download Paper
FAN Concept Paper on the Karamoja Cluster During the period 2003 to 2005 FAN carried out a project on Natural Resources and Conflict Management in the – the area that lies between Kenya, Uganda and Sudan. The project’s overall objective was to enable reduction in poverty and enhanced livelihood security among the Karamojong, Seibei (Uganda) Toposa (Sudan) and the Turkana and Pokot (Kenya). Download Paper

	Growing farm timber:
	Practices markets and policies
This report comprises of a series of four part study to investigate the potential of farm-level timber marketing by exploring current production practices, marketing challenges and policy evolvement. Download Publication

	Role of communities in Forests Act 2005
Parliament recently passed the Forests Bill after a decade of serious negotiations, among the Government, Forest Communities and Civil Society representatives. This Act is unique from the preceding one in that it recognizes the role of communities in effective forest resources management. It provides for the decentralization of forest management to the local community level, giving communities both the access to use and manage their forests in accordance with their own management plans as well as within the legal provisions of the Act. This paper seeks to highlight the various roles to be played out by the communities as spelt out in the Forests Act 2005. Download