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Policy Division

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The Renewable Natural Resources and Agriculture Team (RNRA Team)

Forestry

The aim of our forestry strategy is to increase forestry’s contribution to sustainable growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa and poor Asian countries. The RNRA team aims to achieve this by:

• Improving forest policy, governance and the effectiveness of aid.
  
• Working with the private and financial sectors to enhance the business climate
• Promoting sustainable financing and responsible investment.

Good governance and effective aid:

The RNRA team is supporting work to learn lessons about how to reform forest governance, how to improve public expenditure management through better capture and expenditure of forest revenues; and about the relationship between natural resources, conflict, growth and poverty.

Pro-poor policies, markets and business climate:

The RNRA team supports the global Rights and Resource Partnership to advocate for better business climate for low-income producers and for pro-poor growth strategies in Africa.

The RNRA team supports work to explore and promote new income opportunities for low-income producers generated by the emerging environmental service markets.

Sustainable financing and responsible investment:

The RNRA team is developing and promoting innovative financing instruments through the newly established DFID-IFC Sustainable Financial Market Facility (SFMF) trust fund. This promotes responsible investment practices that result in positive development impacts.

Contact Matthias Rhein, M-Rhein@dfid.gov.uk  for more information on this work or on our policy coherence and donor harmonisation work.

Last updated: 20 December 2006