The Forest Investment Program (FIP) Technical Committee is the decision-making body responsible for overseeing the operations and activities of the FIP. Equal number of representatives from donor and recipient countries serve as decision-making members. Official Observers from stakeholder groups advocate on behalf of their constituents and promote transparency and efficient use of resources.
Responsibilities of the FIP Technical Committee include approving FIP programming priorities, operational criteria, and financing terms and modalities; selecting countries to participate in the FIP; endorsing investments plans; approving allocation of FIP resources for programs and projects; and ensuring complementarity between FIP activities and those of other development partners.
Since 2020, the SCF Trust Fund Committee has taken on some of the responsibilities previously carried out by the FIP/PPCR/SREP Technical Committees, which since then carry out their role by email. Only under extraordinary circumstances, such as new contributions, a virtual meeting of a Technical Committee may be convened.
FIP TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Co-Chairs
Gambia
Muhammad Jaiteh
United Kingdom
Jan Wimaladharma
Committee Members
Argentina *
Martín Illescas
Bangladesh *
Mizanul Chowdhury
Brazil *
Ivan Tiago Machado Oliveira
Burkina Faso *
BATIENE Mamadou
Canada
John Gubbels
Denmark *
Hanne Jersild
Guatemala
Antonio Guoron
Japan
Ikuko Shirota
Nepal *
Prakash Lamsal
Norway
Vania Dietrichson
Spain *
Marta Mulas Alcántara
Sweden
Henrik Bergquist
Tajikistan
Nasimjon Rajabov
Uganda *
Tom Okello
United States
Abigail Demopulos
Zambia *
Chitembo Chunga
Multilateral Development Banks
African Development Bank
Kidanua Abera Gizaw
African Development Bank
Leandro Azevedo
African Development Bank
Gareth Phillips
Asian Development Bank
Ancha Srinivasan
Asian Development Bank
Christian Ellermann
Asian Development Bank
Karan Chouksey
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Alexis Franke
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Andrea Iro
Inter-American Development Bank
Gloria Visconti
Inter-American Development Bank
Ricardo Goncalvez
International Finance Corporation
Jussi Tapio Lehmusvaara
World Bank
Dinara Besekei Sutton
World Bank
Ines Angulo
Observers
Bank Information Center (BIC)
Ladd Connell
Bank Information Center (BIC)
Carolina Juaneda
Center for Indigenous Peoples Research, Education and Development (CIPRED)
Pasanga Sherpa
Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira – COIAB/COICA
Francinara Soares Martins
Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA)
Juan Carlos Jintiach
Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR)
Iris Olivera Gomez
Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR)
Claudia Zuniga-Carrillo
Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)
Dil Raj Khanal
Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)
Bharati Pathak
Federation of Environmental and Ecological Diversity for Agricultural Revampment and Human Rights (FEEDAR & HR)
Tcharbuahbokengo Nfinn
Federation of Environmental and Ecological Diversity for Agricultural Revampment and Human Rights (FEEDAR & HR)
Achak Margerate Tambi
Gamo Development Association
Desalegn Kebede Kaza
Gold Standard
Felicity Spors
Gold Standard
Pierre Rousseau
International Chamber fo Commerce (ICC) Mexico
Liliana Anzalduá Medina
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC – Mexico)
Daniel Basurto Gonzalez
Lelewal Foundation
Bouba Njobdi Amadou
Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN)
Gobinda Chhantyal