Exploring sustainability challenges in national forest inventories: Tunisia and Mongolia as case studies
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National forest monitoring provides data to inform policy- and decision-makers about a country’s forests, assessing forest characteristics and its changes. Global South countries receive financial and technical support from international donors and bilateral aid agencies for National Forest Inventory (NFI) projects as key components of National Forest Monitoring Systems. Repeating NFI is necessary to assess changes in forest characteristics and inform decision-makers; however, the vast majority of developing countries do not repeat NFIs independently of foreign assistance. While drawing attention to the term ‘Country Ownership’, this article seeks answers to the question of how interests and power of collaborating actors from Global North and South impact the implementation of NFI projects and their repeatability. The article is based on a qualitative empirical approach with theoretical entries from Weberian power theories and international relations. We conducted a study of two internationally assisted NFI projects in two developing countries, Mongolia and Tunisia. Aligned with three stated hypotheses, our empirical findings from the two cases show 1- interests of Global North actors shape NFI projects from early implementation phases; 2- a lack of consideration, especially of informal interests of national actors, builds obstacles to the implementation of NFI and their repetition. Additionally, we argue that non-state actors should become more central to NFI projects as well as in the concept of ‘Country Ownership’ in the context of forest monitoring because their participation bears the potential to create momentum for NFI-repetition, in other words, their sustainability.
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