Reporting and establishment of national forest plans national forest action programmes and national biodiversity strategy and action plans

Reporting and establishment of national forest plans national forest action programmes and national biodiversity strategy and action plans

Implementation of national forest programmes. The proposals for action have effectively shaped the national forest programmes and their equivalents in many countries, and these national forest programmes have become national institutional frameworks for achieving sustainable forest management.

d. National forest policy and programs

(d) Making sustainable forest management a higher priority, inter alia, through integrating the National Forest Programme or other national forest strategies into national planning strategies, including poverty reduction strategies where they exist

Formulation and implementation of national forest programmes

Inside the green line is national forest.

Mount Shasta National Forest. Are we near

To the right of it is national forest.

Decentralization in the forest sector should not be implemented in isolation from a general national forestry strategy such as national forest programs.

The guidelines for national forest plans include recognition and respect for customary and traditional rights of, inter alia, indigenous people, local communities, forest dwellers and forest owners.

Increased understanding of forest landscape restoration approaches Development of projects to operationalize forest landscape restoration in specific countries Establishment of national committees on forest landscape restoration Recognition that international synergies can translate into national and regional synergies

Forest landscape restoration is a local mechanism that should be integrated with both sectoral and extra sectoral national development processes, including poverty reduction strategies and national forest programmes.

Participation on a national level in the formulation and implementation of national forest policies is essential.

(l) Integrate national forest programmes, or other strategies for sustainable forest management, as referred to in paragraph 6 (a) above, into national strategies for sustainable development, relevant national action plans and poverty reduction strategies

Despite substantial progress in the formulation and implementation of national forest policies, deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate.

CPF members explain that they have facilitated national forest programmes in a number of important ways, including through the National Forest Programme Facility and the Programme on Forests (PROFOR).7

A forest around the site was also planted by the Jewish National Fund.

National forest programmes have also become vehicles for meeting commitments under international agreements.

Stakeholders at the international, regional, national and subnational levels have attached importance to criteria and indicators as providing a framework for policy formulation and monitoring of sustainable forest management and national forest programmes.

At the national level, important developments have included the formulation and implementation of national forest programmes and reforms in national legislation dealing with forests, land use and natural resources, as well as decentralization and the devolution of forest management to communities.

Epping Forest is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 855 km northwest of Brisbane.

Contrary to the other national parks in Finland, Koli National Park was originally governed by the Finnish Forest Research Institute Metla.

(g) alt2 Inviting the governing body of the National Forest Programme facility hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to establish a fund to support national actions to implement sustainable forest management

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

There is a need to explore ways to use available ODA for the forest sector more effectively in promoting sustainable forest management and building respective national capacities.

To achieve this, national forest programmes or similar frameworks should include clear statements explaining why forest related activities are a priority and why external funding is justified.

In addition, considerable efforts are being made to improve natural forest management and recover forest loss through the Forestry Incentives Programme of the National Forestry Institute (INAB).

FAO National Forest Assessments (NFA) and Integrated Land Use Assessments (ILUA), which is a process to collect and manage country wide forest resource, socioeconomic and environmental information.

Formulation and implementation of national forest programmes, with clear targets and expectations, and with the active engagement of stakeholders, including women and youth, could strategically improve forest restoration.

One major group points out that national forest programmes are a constructive tool for translating relevant IPF IFF proposals to the national level.

Some progress has been made to achieve the integration of the principles of sustainable forest management into country policies and programmes, such as national forest programmes or similar strategies.

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would raise political awareness and strengthen political commitment needed for support of international and national forest policies.

National data on land use and forest cover were often outdated or not in a suitable format.

To ensure coherent efforts at the national level, clear linkages between national forest programmes and other plans, including poverty reduction strategy papers, are essential.

CPF members state that, increasingly, national forest programmes are seen as an effective tool for cross sectoral and participatory policy making and for translating international forest related commitments into practice.

There are a number of existing international arrangements that have succeeded in strengthening long term political commitment to sustainable forest management and led to significant improvements in national forest policies, legislative frameworks and standards in line with the principles of sustainable forest management.

(w) Promote active and effective participation by major groups, local communities, forest owners and other relevant stakeholders in the development, implementation and assessment of forest related national policies, measures and programmes

(f) Promote complementarity among national forest programmes and action plans under the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development related Conventions to further mainstream sustainable forest management in cross sectoral policies

Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

Ruidoso Downs is a city in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, located within the Lincoln National Forest.

Action by CPF members has included the National Forest Programme Facility, the work of PROFOR and capacity building.