14 July 2009
During the last week of June 2009, through an informational and promotional workshop, Peru started the activities toward the formulation of the project for a National Forest Monitoring and Assessment. The event was carried out under the leadership of the Head Office of Forestry and Wildlife under the Ministry of Environment. The main stakeholders of the forestry sector participated in the event, among others, regional governments, universities, the institute for studies in the Amazon region of Peru and the private sector were present. It was agreed by all the participants that a high priority should be placed on the assessment and monitoring of natural resources to support decision making , forestry development policies and monitoring GHG in line with the REDD mechanism. Peru is the ninth country in the world in terms of forest area and the second in the Latin American Region. So far, efforts have been made for generating information in the various regions of the country, there is no doubt that it is now necessary to organize and harmonize all these initiatives and establish a system of forest monitoring at national level. [more...]
14 July 2009
The NAFORMA launching ‘Data needs and Inventory design workshop’ took place in Dar Es Salaam, from 30th June till 2nd July 2009. The workshop aimed at gathering all the necessary data and information concerning inventory data and user needs for National Forest Assessment (NFA) in Tanzania. The workshop was attended by some 70 participants including (local stakeholders from ministries, NGOs, international and national experts) and finished with concrete recommendations of different working groups, to be used by the local FAO consultant team, deadline end of July 2009. The most important issues were information needs, sampling design and stratification, the possible link with REDD, and land use/ vegetation classification options. Further project implementation was discussed, as well as linkage between different ongoing RS initiatives FRA RSS, GEO, the Norwegian lidar project, UN-REDD and the NAFORMA, to set up a road map what’s to be done in the upcoming months and to identify the actions and actors in the following phases of the project. The UN REDD joint mission will revise the JNP in the end of July. [more...]
24 June 2009
A Needs Assessment Workshop was held in Banjul, The Gambia on June 17-19. Participants included over fifty people from more then twenty institutions, NGOs, academic and governmental agencies (GBOS, KOMMFORA, National Planning Commission, NARI, University of the Gambia, NACO, Dept. of Water Resources, Dept. of Agriculture, Concern Universal, etc.)During plenary and working group sessions the participants reviewed and discussed the main concern and needs for the National Forest Assessment (NFA) in the Gambia. A list of over 100 issues were categorized in terms of their relative importance. The workshop results went beyond the scope of the NFA therefore it proved to be an excellent exercise for raising a number of issues of concern for the Gambia natural resource and livelihood. All participants actively engaged in the discussion. Techincal meetings were also held as well as a recoinnassance field mission. [more...]
7 May 2008
Following the very successful “Asia Forest Week”, a “European Forest Week” is scheduled to take place in October this year. Recently the Web site was launched, giving details on all the activities taking place during this exciting week. [more...]
