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XI The Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance--William Sugrue
Pages 81-84

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... The goal of SFPGA, through a partnership of government, NGOs, and the private sector, is to reduce the scope of destructive and illegal forestry practices worldwide by expanding the proportion of internationally traded forest products sourced from forests certified as sustainably managed. Although the founding partners were governmental and NGO, from the outset, potential partners in the for-profit private sector were consulted since SFPGPA was envisioned as a public–private partnership involving, 1
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From page 82...
... An explicit incentive to aggressively pursue public–private partnerships was created in USAID in 2001 under the leadership of a Global Development Alliance Secretariat, empowered to provide matching funds to successful USAID technical staff proposals in which public–private partnerships were integral to the proposed programmatic initiative. The incentives for WWF/GFTN and Metafore to join the SFPGA included additional financial resources flowing from USAID, a global partnership with USAID/Washington headquarters that might increase the stature of their programs in the eyes of the large private sector firms whose cooperation they needed to achieve their sustainable forest management goals, and in the case of WWF/ GFTN enhanced access to USAID missions and American embassies.
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From page 83...
... Nevertheless, the rhetoric of partnership which surrounded its launch, and which justified the SFPGA in USAID policy terms, freed significant resources in support of what were undeniably partnerships among NGOs and the private sector, thus making possible the substantive impacts and forest product market reforms which the SFPGA was conceived to address.
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