GERMAN INITIATIVE
- Title:
EXPERT CONSULTATIONS ON: IMPLEMENTING THE FOREST PRINCIPLES - PROMOTION
OF NATIONAL FOREST AND LAND USE PROGRAMMES
- Sponsor
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Federal
Republic of Germany
- Date and Location of the Meeting of the Initiative:
16-21 June 1996; German Foundation for International Development (DSE)
in Feldafing (Munich), Germany
- Description of issues:
promotion of national forest and land use programmes by:
1. Improving the coordination of national planning and
international initiatives,
2. strengthening national policy dialogues between all
stakeholders and
3. building the overall capacity in the countries of the South
to achieve a country-driven implementation of national
forest and land use programmes
- Relationship with Intergovernmental Panel on Forests Programme Elements:
Consultations should contribute to the IPF programme elements I.1 on
the promotion of national forest and land use programmes as well as
II.1 on the improved efficiency and coordination of bilateral and
multilateral assistance.
- Expected results:
Recommendations for:
1. Integration of forestry sector planning with national planning cycles
2. Coordination of various internationally initiated planning frameworks
like the NFAPs, Forestry Master Plans, EAPs etc
3. Coherence of national forest policy and programmes with the various
international agreements and UN Resolutions
4. Efficient and effective use of the existing international technical
and financial mechanisms and their comparative advantages for
different key issues and sub-sectors in forestry at the national
level
- Expected Date of Completion of the Report:
1 August 1996
- Process in Pursuing the Consultations:
The Forestry Advisers Group in cooperation with the respective
bilateral and multilateral organizations supports countries of the
South in national consultations on the promotion of national forest
and land use programmes. Eleven countries and the Region of Central
America will organize national dialogues on the topic between January
and April 1996. National recommendations will be synthesized in a
report, which will serve as the basic document for the international
expert consultations on national forest and land use programmes
- Participants:
Approximately 60 participants from countries of the South, bilateral
and multilateral agencies, NGOs and the private sector
- Contact Persons:
Christian Mersmann Rainald Roesch
GTZ OE 424 Mission of Federal Republic of
P.O. Box 5180 Germany to the United Nations
65726 Eschborn, Germany New York, USA
Tel: 49 6196 79 3452 Tel: 212-856-6295
Fax: 49 6196 79 7333 Fax: 212-856-6280
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