4. Case examples
Three countries will be covered initially in the KR. These are Guatemala, India, and Sweden. These countries will be ¿pilot cases¿ for the write-up of case examples, likely to be followed by additional countries to be appointed/asked later on.
The case example texts should use the same general structure as the KR, although with a few modifications (see below); the total length should be about 10 pages. The structure outlined below was agreed upon by the participants of the meeting. The topics under each chapter should only be considered as recommendations about what issues to cover; other relevant issues should be included as well.
- Background and policy context
- Historical development
- Uses and users of NFA information; role of NFA in national policy development
- Institutional arrangement, e.g. legal basis
- etc.
- Organisation and Implementation
- Organisation
- How does the organisation implement the NFA
- Experiences
- etc.
- Sampling design
- What sampling design is used; motivation
- etc.
- Observation and measurement
- What variables are assessed; condensed presentation to avoid extensive lists
- Plot design
- Measurement equipment
- Link to field manual
- Quality control of data
- Motivation for selecting the particular procedures used
- etc.
- Data collection through interviews
- What variables
- How are the interviews performed
- Mainly cover interviews tied to the actual sample plot locations
- Experiences?
- etc.
- Remote sensing
- In what way is remote sensing used?
- Links to the field sampling?
- etc.
- Information management
- Procedures for data collection, processing, analysis
- Archiving of data; long term data security
- etc.
- Modelling for estimation and monitoring
- What types of equations are used; sources.
- Principles used in the estimation phase
- etc.
- Outputs
- What kind of standard results are produced
- Is scenario modelling performed, and in such case: what methods are used
- etc.
- Lessons learned