Global Forest Resources Assessment Regional Workshop for National Correspondents from Anglophone African Countries |
Miklin Hotel, Accra, Ghana on 27-30 July 2004 |
List of Documents, presentations, other material
Information Notes | |
INF: 1 |
Information Note |
INF: 2 |
Meeting Agenda |
INF: 3 |
List of Documents |
INF: 4 |
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Opening Session | |
SO(i) (DOC) |
Welcome address by the Forestry Commission |
S0(ii) (DOC) |
Opening Statement by FAO-Ghana |
S0(iii) (DOC) |
Formal Opening by Hon. Minister of Lands & Forestry |
Session 1:Procedural | |
S1-1 (PPT) |
Workshop objectives & Expected Outputs |
Session 2: FRA 2005 Process and Work plan | |
S2-1 (PPT) |
FRA 2005 Process and work plan |
Session 3: Country Presentations | |
Session 4: Thematic Studies | |
S4-1 (PPT) |
Introduction to thematic studies |
S4-2 (DOC) |
Thematic studies |
Session 5: Methodologies for compiling FRA 2005 National Reports | |
S5-1 (PPT) |
Review of guidelines for national reporting and reporting template |
S5-2 (DOC) |
Specification of National Reporting Tables for FRA 2005 |
S5-3 (DOC) |
Guidelines for Country Reporting to FRA 2005 |
S5-4 (DOC) |
Country Report – Template |
S5-5 (DOC) |
Group Work TORs |
S5-6 (DOC) |
Organisation of Group Work |
Session 6: Presentation of Group Work | |
S6-1 (DOC) |
Outcome of group work |
Session 7: Addressing Country Reporting Problems & Needs | |
S7-1 (PPT) |
Technical assistance and guidance |
S7-2 (PPT) |
Support to NFA |
Session 8: Conclusions & Recommendations | |
S8-1 (PPT) |
Draft Summary of Conclusions & Recommendations |
Miscellaneous Documents | |
CD – 1 |
FRA 2000 |
CD – 2 |
Validation reports |
Informal Working Reports | |
Administrative | |
Travel Declaration form | |
Global Forest Resources Assessment Regional Workshop for National Correspondents from Anglophone African Countries |
at Miklin Hotel, Accra, Ghana on 27-30 July 2004 |
Forestry experts from eighteen English-speaking African countries, including Ghana, are meeting this week in Accra in order to review their progress towards preparing national assessments of their forest resources. Assessments are currently being undertaken in every corner of the world, and a similar meeting took place last week in Dakar, Senegal, aimed at the French-speaking countries of Africa.
The Ghana Forestry Commission is hosting this key African Meeting as part of the worldwide Global Forest Resources Assessment which the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) will produce next year in 2005.
FAO is mandated by its member countries and the international community to provide these periodic forest resource assessments in order to provide authoritative and scientifically-based evidence on how the world is managing and conserving its forests. These assessments began in 1948 and the most recent in year 2000 highlighted the unsustainable deforestation rates in many African countries. Much interest will be focussed on how countries have managed to maintain their forests since then.
Countries like Ghana need relevant, recent and reliable information on forest resources in order to formulate their forest policies and ensure sustainable forest management for the benefit of all their people who depend on forests for their livelihoods and essential environmental services such as water supplies. But, these forest assessments are not limited to providing information of interest to foresters alone; they also provide forest-related information to other sectors and to important international processes concerning climate change, desertification and biological diversity which African countries have signed up to.
By the end of the week, the participating countries will have made significant strides towards these goals.
