Roundtable: Advancing policy coherence on forests in Tanzania
Friday, 27 March 2026
8:30 - 17:00 (UTC+3)
Onomo Hotel, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
Enhancing effective forest landscape restoration
The nineteenth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF19) underscored the urgent need to strengthen policy coherence and institutional capacity to advance the Global Forest Goals and other forest-related goals and targets. Forest landscape restoration delivers environmental, economic and social benefits, supporting biodiversity, climate resilience, food security and sustainable livelihoods. Yet restoration outcomes are often shaped by policies and investments beyond the forest sector, including agriculture, energy, infrastructure, finance and land-use planning, highlighting the need for coherent and aligned cross-sectoral frameworks.
In many contexts, limited coordination among ministries and stakeholders results in policy inconsistencies, data gaps and fragmented implementation, undermining progress at national and sub-national levels. Without integrated planning and sustained multi-sector engagement, restoration commitments risk remaining aspirational. Strengthening cooperation, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and improving information sharing are therefore essential to creating enabling conditions for effective and durable forest and landscape restoration.
Objectives
This roundtable, organized by the CPF, seeks to enhance coordination of national focal points and deepen understanding of forest restoration and explore opportunities to address policy gaps, fragmentation and institutional silos to enhance impact of national activities for forest landscape restoration, and accelerate achievement towards international global forest-related goals and targets. It aims to build shared understanding and commitment among government ministries, agencies, national focal points of CPF members, and other relevant stakeholders regarding their role in forest restoration. It will be a participatory session, using tools designed to foster dialogue, to:
- Demonstrate why forest restoration is a cross-sectoral priority, with environmental, economic, and social benefits.
- Better understand respective roles and responsibilities of relevant ministries and other stakeholders whose policies and actions influence land use and restoration outcomes.
- Identify policy inconsistencies, data and information gaps that hinder effective restoration at the national and sub-national level.
- Discuss potential mechanisms for improving cross-sectoral coordination, information sharing, and integrated planning.
- Develop a set of priority actions to build on and strengthen enabling conditions for restoration and ensure sustained multi-sector engagement.
Background
The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has committed to restoring 5.2 million hectares of degraded land under the AFR100 and Bonn Challenge initiatives. This commitment is guided by national strategies, including the Forest Landscape Restoration Strategy, the Beekeeping Policy and Strategy, the National Forestry Implementation Strategy and the National Agroforestry Strategy, and contributes to NBSAPs, NDCs, LDN targets and the Global Forest Goals under the UNSPF 2017–2030.
Effective restoration requires strong policy coherence and institutional coordination. Progress depends on collaboration across sectors such as agriculture, water, livestock, energy, finance, land and infrastructure, whose policies directly influence land use and restoration outcomes.
This CPF-facilitated roundtable aims to strengthen cross-sectoral alignment, clarify roles and responsibilities, address data gaps and promote integrated planning. By enhancing cooperation across relevant stakeholders including ministries, agencies, civil society organizations and practitioners, it seeks to create enabling conditions for sustained and impactful forest and landscape restoration.
This event was made possible through the financial support of Canada.
