International Forest Policy Forum

d. National forest policy and programs

The reform of forestry policy is introducing two important innovations (i) preparation of forest management plans and (ii) adoption of forest certification and labelling systems.

Examples of policy activities include, inter alia, forest law enforcement, certification, market access, development of guidelines, ex post evaluation, studies on market conditions, status of tropical forest management, community forest management, tenure rights, further processing of tropical timber , trade of non timber forest products and ecosystem services.

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

(k) Identify and implement measures to enhance cooperation and cross sectoral policy and programme coordination among sectors affecting and affected by forest policies and management, with a view to integrating the forest sector into national decision making processes and promoting sustainable forest management, including by addressing the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation, and by promoting forest conservation

Setting clear objectives for international forest policy and linking sustainable forest management more closely to the internationally agreed development goals are avenues that warrant careful consideration at the Forum.

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.

Over the past 10 years of the international forest policy dialogue process, the debate on a global forest convention has prevented progress on the issues mentioned above and on others.

Many countries report action to improve the use of economic and policy instruments to promote sustainable forest management.

Such priorities could be common to all options discussed below and could be used to focus international forest policy.

In some countries, the programmes are developed at the subnational level because significant forest policy responsibilities have been decentralized.

(c) Strengthen the vertical linkages between forest policy development and dialogue at the global, regional, national and local levels.

Increase understanding of good practices and opportunities to optimize delivery of the benefits from forest landscape restoration activities Stimulate the political support, policy and partnership arrangement and investment needed to implement effective forest landscape activities Catalyze and demonstrate implementation of forest landscape restoration globally.

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.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

The benefits of such programmes, in terms of providing a focus for forest policy development and implementation, are widely recognized.

Reforestation and afforestation in the context of sustainable forest and drylands management are seen as important elements in combating desertification, as appropriate synergy and complementarity between NAPs and national forest programmes in drylands, or similar policy frameworks, must be ensured when planning and implementing forest related activities.

In the forest. Always in the forest.

The Coalition (formerly known as the NGO Forest Working Group) was established in 1995 to bring the views of non governmental organizations and indigenous peoples' organizations to the various international forest policy forums and negotiations.

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

(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

Increase understanding of good practices and opportunities to optimize delivery of the benefits from forest landscape restoration activities (learning) Stimulate the political support, policy and partnership arrangements and investment needed to implement effective forest landscape restoration activities (support) Catalyze and demonstrate implementation of forest landscape restoration around the world (demonstration and acceleration).

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Forest restoration

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C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

(j) Promoting improved forest practices through strengthening sustainable forest management standards

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

These events explored restoration strategies and the policy tools to support them, profiled best practices in forest landscape restoration, and identified opportunities for collaboration.

The owner of the forest also has a duty to take measures to reduce the possibility of the forest damage and restrict its distribution to monitor forest situation and to notify the State Forest Service of determined forest damage.

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

If sustainable forest management is to compete successfully for resources, strong domestic strategic decisions and policy measures are needed to create an attractive investment environment.

Of particular value is the broadening of the range of stakeholders with an interest in forests and the development of innovative mechanisms for equitable involvement of these stakeholders in the formulation of forest policy and programmes and in forest planning and management.

(c) Strengthen vertical linkages between forest policy development and dialogue at the global, regional, national and local levels by reviewing the scheduling and cycle of meetings and perhaps by holding regional and global thematic meetings on major forest related issues in alternate years

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