Prerequisites for the countries to participate in the Project are:
1. Agreement of the participating countries to the Project strategy and establishment of a National Project as part of the Regional Project.
2. Elaboration of a restructuring plan for the concerned forestry service which is backed by political support and the provision of required budgets, positions and staff in cooperation with the Regional Project.
3. The will and ability of the concerned state or private forestry service and the concerned political level to adapt its structure and capacities to the requirements of private forest owners and community users (basically to establish a communicative and supportive forestry extension service).
4. In case of overlapping tasks an agreement with other development projects in the forestry sector.