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Tropical Forest Research Network |
By Jelle Maas
PROFOR, a multi-donor partnership formed to pursue the shared goal of enhancing the contribution of forests to poverty reduction, sustainable development and protection of environmental services, is providing information at http://www.profor.info/ PROFOR summarises lessons learned in national forest programmes at http://www.profor.info/lessonslearnednfp.htm.
FAO is hosting the site of the National Forest Programme Facility (in short “Facility”) (http://www.fao.org/forestry/nfp-facility), which provides an overview of procedures, progress made and information services on nfps such as nfp-country profiles (including general information, the planning process, forest policy, conventions and national and donor support); and an nfpdigest, offering background information on specific themes in nfp processes.
Another site hosted jointly by FAO and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), is providing, inter alia, information on fundraising for forestry projects, programmes and studies: http://www.fao.org/forestry/cpf-sourcebook
The UN Forum on Forests Report of the Secretary-General on national forest programmes (document E/CN.18/2002/4 is available at http://www.un.org/esa/forests/documents-unff.html#2 in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).
ODI keysheet number 17 dates from November 2002 (http://www.keysheets.org/red_17_national_forest_progs.html) . It presents a good introduction to national forest programmes, including an overview of the debate, policy issues and links to key documents. It was commissioned by DFID (United Kingdom) and DGIS (Netherlands).
The German Society for Development Cooperation (GTZ) has devoted one section of its website to forest policy (http://www.gtz.de/de/themen/laendliche-entwicklung/natuerliche-ressourcen/1822.htm), including a part on national forest programmes. The GTZ website has been redesigned and is available in German only until the end of 2004.
Much of the recent work of the IIED forestry and Land Use programme is relevant to national forest programme development, for instance the forest governance learning group http://www.iied.org/forestry/research/projects/forest.html#fglg and the completed project on policy that works for forests and people http://www.iied.org/forestry/research/projects/ptw.html
The European Forest Institute, EFI, has published the proceedings of the international seminar on formulation and implementation of national forest programmes in Freiburg, 18–20 May 1998 at http://www.efi.fi/publications/Proceedings/30_1.html.
The Swedish National Board of Forestry has published the report by Blas Mola Yudego, A comparison between national forest programmes of some EU member states at http://www.svo.se/forlag/rapporter/1717.pdf
The main objective of the EU COST Action E19 is to provide policy-makers in Europe with improved means for formulating and implementing national forest programmes. http://www.metla.fi/eu/cost/e19/.
A paper by Zimmermann and Schmithüsen, The legal aspects of national forest programmes presented at the meeting of COST Action E19 in Aberdeen, March 2001, is available at: http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/show.pl?type=incoll&nr=440
The Canadian National Forest Strategy Coalition (http://nfsc.forest.ca/) provides background documents and reports on the nfp process in Canada in French and English, as well as an extensive list of coalition members collaborating in the strategy. The First Nations Forest program (FNFP) is also located in Canada, with the website http://www.fnfp.gc.ca/index_e.php. Since 1996, the First Nations Forestry Program has funded some 1500 projects.
Results of the G8 Action Programme on Forests have been summarised at: http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/summit/2002/g8forest2.html.
ELDIS, a gateway to information on development issues, contains references to over 30 documents on national forest programmes (http://www.eldis.org/)
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If you have a web resource relevant to nfps, please let us know (etfrn@etfrn.org).