09.00 - 10.00 - Registration (Lusaka International Conference Centre)

10.00 - 11.00 - Opening Ceremony

11.00 - 12.00 - Item 1: Adoption of Agenda (document FO:AFWC/2000/1)

                      - Item 2: Election of Officers

14.30 - 17.00 - Item 3: State of Forestry and Wildlife in the Region: national progress
                         reports (document FO:AFWC/2000/2)

18.30 - 20.30 - Reception by the Government of Zambia

Tuesday, 28 March 2000

09.00 - 12.00 - Item 4: Review of FAO Regular and Field Programmes, including
                         follow-up to requests and recommendations of the 11^th session
                         of the Commission (document FO:AFWC/2000/3)

                       - Item 5: Progress in the Implementation of the Forestry Outlook Study
                         for Africa (FOSA) (document: FO:AFWC/2000/4)

14.00 - 17.00 - Item 6: Report of the 13^th session of the Working Party on Wildlife
                         Management and National Parks and future of the Working Party
                         (document FO:AFWC/WL/2000/REP)

                       - Item 7: Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management and
                         Implications for Certification and Trade in Africa
                         (document FO:AFWC/2000/5)

18.30 - 20.30 - Reception by FAO

Wednesday, 29 March 2000

09.00 - 12.00 - Item 8: In-session Seminar: National forest programme development
                         in Africa in the context of the Intergovernmental Panel on
                         Forests/Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IPF/IFF) follow-up
                         (document FO:AFWC/2000/6)

14.00 - 17.00 - Item 8: Continued

                      - Item 9: Forestry and the Kyoto Protocol: Key Issues
                        (document FO:AFWC/2000/7)

                      - Item 10: International Year of Mountains - 2002 (for information)
                        (document FO:AFWC/2000/INF.4)

Thursday, 30 March 2000

09.00 - 12.00 - Item 11: Regional issues identified by the Commission for the attention
                         of the Committee on Forestry (COFO)

                       - Item 12: Other business

                       - Item 13: Date and place of next session

                       - Item 14: Adoption of report

                       - Closing of session

Friday, 31 March 2000

09.00 - 12.00 - FOSA: Sub-Regional Planning Workshop for Southern Africa
                         (SADC-FSTCU)

14.00 - 17.00 - FOSA: Continued