Indicator – L6. Opportunities exist for local and forest dependent people to get employment and training from forest companies

Consultant's Initials:

GSA

Source:

CIFOR-BAG

Identification No. in source: Use all refs:

1.2.2

Class:

Economic

Recommendation (after field testing) Yes or no

No

Revised Indicator Suggested? #

L8a

Box A:

Principle - Society accepts responsibility for sustainability.

Criterion- There is equitable access to and distribution of economic rents.

Indicator - Opportunities exist for local and forest dependent people to get employment and training from forest companies.

Box B: Definition:

The forest companies will generate profits, or in other words economic benefits, from the resources by exploiting them. These benefits may leave the community entirely with the company, or some may be shared with local peoples by means of the company explicitly making available employment opportunities.

Box C: Attributes

Rate on a scale of 1-5, where 1=no/bad/unimportant and 5=yes/good/important

Precisely defined? (clear)

3

Useable?

2

Is it applicable to other areas/ecosystems? (robust)

3

Sensitive?

3

Easy to detect, record and interpret?

2

Is it applicable to all landowners?

Yes

x

No

Box D: Applicability to Different Landowners. Explain any differences.

N/A

Box E: Overlap:

CIFOR – ECON : L8a, C3.1.4 "Employment of local population in forest management"

CCFM: L8, 5.3.2

Box F: Geo-Political Scale:

Global

X

North America

X

Intermountain West

X

Study area

X

Tenure

X

Site

Box G: Indicator Characteristics:

Diagnostic

Predictive

Both

X

Notes:

Clearly the indicator is diagnostic, but could also have limited predictive capability if time series trends are examined.

Box H: Indicator Function:

Structure

Function/Process

Composition

Perturbation
Not Applicable

X

Notes:

This classification does not apply to socioeconomic systems.

Box I: Underlying Concepts:

The utility of using local employment as an indicator is discussed related to indicator L8a.

Box J: Relevance to Sustainable/Unsustainable Management:

As stated by Colfer (1998), "If local people are employed by the company, then although they are losing some part of their local natural resources, they are at least gaining some economic benefits (although admittedly economic benefits are not a true "substitute" for natural resources)."

Box K: Measurement Methods:

Several methods could be used:

  1. The percentage of timber company employees working in the local area who are drawn from the local community.
  2. The percentages of all workers in the local area who work in forest-related industries and are also residents of the area.
  3. The percentages of all workers in the local area who work directly in forest-related industries and indirectly in related industries and who are also residents of the area.

Box L: Data Required:

See the discussion related to measurement methods above.

Box M: Data Used for the North American Test:

No data were assembled for the North American Test since this indicator is redundant of indicator L8a.

Box N: Example Results:

No test was conducted for the North American Test since this indicator is redundant of indicator L8a.

Box O: Assessing the Practicality:

The indicator is too specific in its scope, addressing only employment by timber companies. For this reason, it is considered redundant to indicator L8a.

Box P: Assessing the Information Value:

The indicator is too specific in its scope, addressing only employment by timber companies. For this reason, it is considered redundant to indicator L8a.

Box Q: Overall assessment:

Rejected.

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Box R: Did you rewrite or revise to a new indicator. If so what?

The indicator is considered redundant to indicator L8a.

Box S: References :

Colfer, C. 1998. In: Criteria & Indicator Resource Book. CIFOR (draft).

Appendix:

Please record your notes on evaluating the indicator here.

N/A