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ANNEX 3

International Conference on the Contribution of Criteria and Indicators
for Sustainable Forest Management: The Way Forward
Guatemala City, Guatemala
3 - 7 February 2003

REPORT OF WORKING GROUP I

Objective 1: Strengthening elaboration and application of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management

Chairperson: Ms Christina Amoako-Nuama, Ghana

Rapporteur: Dr Eva Mόller, ITTO

A. Introduction

The discussions held and the conclusions and recommendations produced by this Working Group are based on (1) the background discussion paper introduced in plenary by Rob Hendricks (USA) entitled "Strengthening the elaboration and application of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management", and (2) the following three case studies presented in this working group session3:

B. Conclusions and recommendations4

General conclusions

National level work and applications

Conclusions

Recommendations

Relationship between national and sub-national/management unit level criteria and indicators

Conclusions

Recommendation

Linkages with certification

Conclusions


Link with monitoring, assessment and reporting on sustainable forest management

Conclusion

Recommendations

Review and refinement of indicators


Recommendations

Data collection and national forest inventories

Conclusion

Recommendations

3 Please refer to Vol. 2 for the full text of the background discussion papers and summaries of the case studies.

4 The conclusions and recommendations of this and the following three annexes are the results of the corresponding Working Groups sessions.

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