23 April 2013 Fourteen projects have been endorsed since expansion to Latin America and Asia began last year. They include enabling effective timber monitoring and traceability in Nepal ; improving legality, governance and trade for smallholders in Myanmar ; developing strategic alliances to improve forest governance in Guatemala ; instituting sustained mechanisms to combat forest illegality in Belize ; revising Ekiti State Foresty Law and Governance in Nigeria ; implementing and supporting a forestry administration system in Sierra Leone ; carrying out a socio-economic study on the trans-boundary timber commodity chain and legal compliance levels in Kenya ; building capacities of civil society on FLEGT processes in Côte d’Ivoire ; and enhancing compliance and regulation of timber harvesting and trade in Uganda . The Programme has also responded to direct assistance requests from the governments of Honduras , Côte d’Ivoire , Guyana and Vietnam . [more]

1 March 2013 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations announces a call for proposals for projects through the EU FAO Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Programme (EU FAO FLEGT Programme) . The four-year initiative has two main components: providing assistance to stakeholders in putting the European Union FLEGT Action Plan into practice, and supporting the collection, analysis and dissemination of FLEGT-related information and lessons learned among stakeholder groups. [more]