FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION
OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Sub-regional Office
for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR)

Next event:
Forest policy options for non-state forestry in SEE
CEPF/FAO Conference
Fruska Gora, Serbia
26-28. May 2009

Background:
Recently CEPF’s forest policy activities have focused among others on CEEC related issues with special emphasis on the SEE sub-region. During course of these activities, a project got developed targeting the non-state forestry sector in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia with financial support of the World Bank PROFOR Programme. Its general aim is to further the forest policy activities on non-state forestry in the SEE sub-region.

Within its activities an international conference is foreseen to be held 26-28 of May 2009 in Fruska Gora /Belgrade. The conference is jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Serbia, FAO and CEPF.

The partners set up for the above mentioned conference the specific objective to address at the sub-regional scale solution options for the problems identified so far within the frame of the NFP processes in the target countries and further, to gather some political attention for this endeavour. By doing so, issues of livelihood generation, better governance and the role of private forest owner associations in policy making will also be discussed. The programme will also include a one day field excursion to demonstrate some of the dealt issues in the praxis of the host country.

Indeed, this conference is a follow up event to not only the 2008 joint World Bank, CEPF, FAO conference held in Skopje/FYRM but also to the activities carried out in the sub-region in cooperation of FAO, IUCN and CEPF since 2004. Therefore it has for the sub-region and the CEE region special importance.

FOREST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ON EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA

Activities of FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe aim to foster the contribution of the forest sector to sustainable development of countries in the region. In close collaboration with FAO Forestry Department work is carried out in the organizational framework of the Integrated Program of Work of the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC) and the UNECE Timber Committee (TC). The Strategy for FAO and UNECE Forestry Activities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia was elaborated through a participatory approach with the involvement of FAO/UNECE member countries and international organizations. The FAO-EFC and UNECE-TC bureaux adopted this Strategy and review on this base the directions of activities to be carried out by FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe as well as the FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central Asia. The Strategy identifies the major Program Elements and External Partners and sets the framework for annual operational planning.

ACTIVITIES ON FOREST MANAGEMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Events      Workshops, Seminars, Meetings etc. Networking      National Expertise, Collaboration, Co-Funding FAO Field Projects      Overview on FAO projects, Projects conducted by SEUR Publications      Overview on FAO publications, SEUR publications Work in progress      SEUR activities, not yet published

COUNTRY SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Long-term trends of Forest Resources and Forest      Products Markets in Europe CEEC Country Profiles on Forest Land Use       (work in progress) Key data on Forest Management in CEEC FAO Forestry Department Country Profiles EFI Country Profiles Agroweb CEE

CONTACT

Consultant: Alexander Korotkov

Junior Technical Officer: Hubert Inhaizer