Identifying policy change — Analytical program analysis: An example of two decades of forest policy in Bangladesh

Sadath, Md. Nazmus; Krott, Max

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2012.07.013

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“…Third, public deliberations only touch debates on policymaking process and its implementation, while the expert's give long-term strategic discussions, policy options, studies on policy impacts and dialogue space among interested groups. This deliberative behavior is quite similar to what happened in Bangladesh, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and other countries (see: Kleinschmit, 2012;Leipold, 2014;Medina et al, 2009;Sadath, 2012;Sadath et al, 2013;Sadath & Krott, 2012).…”

Section: Public Versus Expert Deliberationssupporting

confidence: 69%

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Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

Wibowo¹,

Gießen²

2015

JSD

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Over the last 20 years a considerable number of international forest-related policies has evolved, collectively referred to as the international forest regime complex. The objectives of this study are to identify the most relevant international forest-related issues discussed in Indonesia as well as the most active actors and their positions on these issues. The empirical methods used include content analysis of Indonesian newspapers, national expert journals, expert mailing lists, and international organizations' position papers. In addition, experts were interviewed to verify and complement the data. As a result, three primary forest-related international issues in Indonesia are identified, namely: timber legality; climate change including REDD initiative; and oil palm plantation and its environmental aspects; and the other four considered as secondary issues, namely: harmonization of wood and forest certification schemes; land use change; forest and species conservation; and deforestation and decentralized forest governance. Public and expert deliberations are found to differ regarding the depth of information as well as their immediate importance for the people and their long-term objectives. The Ministry of Forestry and, surprisingly, the Ministry of Trade are the most active actors in these issues. The main lines of conflict lie between forest utilization interests which are supported by the Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Trade, oil palm and wood industry associations face-to-face with forest conservation interests powered by WWF and Greenpeace.

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confidence: 69%

“…Issue is a specific problem and could be a starting point of a forest policy process (Sadath & Krott, 2012). Issue arises because actors succeed in getting their goals onto the political agenda.…”

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confidence: 99%

Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

Wibowo¹,

Gießen²

2015

JSD

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“…Bangladesh has a total 2.52 million ha of forestland, of which 1.52 million ha is managed by the state forest department, and 0.73 million ha consist of unclassified state forests, administered by the district commissioners [18]. Bangladesh has very low levels of forest area per capita (0.009 ha), compared to average values in Asia (0.145 ha), and the world (0.597 ha) [19,50].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Bangladesh, forest policy is especially dependent on international donors' projects due to the forest sector not being a viable economic field. This is mainly due to a general ban on logging for industrial and commercial purposes since 1990 to regain forest cover within the natural forests [18]. As a consequence, the country has no effective forest management plan, and frameworks of criteria and indicators towards fulfilling the goals of SFM [19,20].…”

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“…It is also believed that a lack of adequate funding is an impediment to planning and implementing SFM policies in Bangladesh. Here, the role of SFM funding by external donors through projects is an essential part of the country's policy towards forest management [18]. Furthermore, the role of national bureaucracies is vital in designing and implementing various elements of SFM policies in Bangladesh.…”

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International and Domestic Sustainable Forest Management Policies: Distributive Effects on Power among State Agencies in Bangladesh

2016

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Abstract:The last two decades of forest policy discussions have been dominated by calls for sustainable management of forest resources. Consequently, multiple international and domestic policies, supporting sustainable forest management (SFM), have evolved in numerous jurisdictions. Policies in developing countries often rely on foreign donors' projects, which supplement domestic SFM policy. These policies assign various policy tasks to specific public bureaucracies, who then compete for these very tasks, as well as the related staff and budgets. Therefore, project and policy task assignment greatly influences bureaucratic power. This article analyzes the distributive effects of SFM policy on power (in terms of coercion, incentives and dominant information) among relevant domestic and foreign donor bureaucracies in Bangladesh. Concepts from power theory, bureaucratic politics theory, and concepts of policy and policy process were combined to analyze 121 Bangladeshi SFM policies from 1992-2013, which assign a total of 1012 policy tasks to specific public bureaucracies. Using qualitative content analysis, inferences about power were assigned to specific competing bureaucracies by the totality of SFM policies made. Results identify domestic and foreign bureaucracies whose power distribution benefit most from the SFM policies viz. their competitors. It is concluded that bureaucracies gaining the most power set the limits and directions in designing, implementing and evaluating various elements of any national SFM policies.

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Actor-Centered Interest Power Analysis of Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Policy Program in and Around the Bangladeshi Sundarbans

Sadath

Schusser

Kabir

2017

Disaster Risk Reduction

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Identifying policy change — Analytical program analysis: An example of two decades of forest policy in Bangladesh

Cited by 35 publications

References 9 publications

Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

International and Domestic Sustainable Forest Management Policies: Distributive Effects on Power among State Agencies in Bangladesh

Actor-Centered Interest Power Analysis of Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Policy Program in and Around the Bangladeshi Sundarbans

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