How to conduct / design a national forest programme

This section contains the respective chapters of the "FORMULATION, EXECUTION AND REVISION OF NATIONAL FOREST PROGRAMMES. Basic principles and operational guidelines" prepared by FAO in 1996.

Main phases:

• Organisation
• Identification of partners
• National coordination mechanisms
• Development of a communication strategy
• Strategic planning
• Preliminary analysis
• In-depth sector analysis
• Strategic analysis
• Formulation of the nfp
• nfp documents
• Implementation
• Implementation, coordination and monitoring
• Capacity building
• Policy, legal and institutional reform programme
• Investment programme
• Revision/updating
• Evaluation
• Re-assessment of the national and international context
• Updating the nfp

You can find important information on gender in nfp in FAO's other relevant publication, in "Women's participation in national forest programmes".