Enabling EnvironmentsEnabling EnvironmentsPoints for Policy BriefPoints for Policy Brief

Q1: Limiting Factors in Political Q1: Limiting Factors in Political FrameworksFrameworks

• Excessive Burden of Regulation:– Lack of relevance to scale and product– High transaction costs

• Conflicting Perspectives on SMEs– Welfare cases v. production organizations– Lack of interest in forest sector– Anti-community policies– Lack of trust in sector– Lack of ability to commercialize resource

Q2: Conducive institutions for Q2: Conducive institutions for SMFE development? SMFE development?

• Access to resources and decisionmaking control

• Ability to shape processes

• Institutions adapted to specific characterisitics and context

• Accountability over decisionmaking

• Horizontal networking

Q3: Recommendations (1)Q3: Recommendations (1)

• Focus on relevant rules according to scale and product

• Build awareness of role of SMFEs in poverty alleviation and economic development

• Develop appropriate incentives• Research how to integrate SMFEs into

economic policy• Government procurement policies

Recommendations (2)Recommendations (2)

• Government to provide incentives

• Networking among stakeholders to identify common interests

• NGOs to raise awareness

• Promote image of SMFE sector

• Donors: link SMFEs to poverty alleviation