Strengthening the Global Core Set of Forest Indicators to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030
22-24 October 2019, FAO headquarters, Rome
Goals and objectives
The overarching goal of the Expert Workshop (EWS) was to review progress on the Global Core Set of forest indicators and develop recommendations to make full use of the set, particularly by further improving methodology and data availability of selected
indicators.
The specific objectives were:
- To take stock of progress and existing gaps related to methods an data needed to use the Global Core Set for measuring progress towards Global Forest Goals and SDGs at national, regional and global levels;
- To discuss and develop recommendations and proposals for selected “Tier 3” GCS forest indicators for which both methodology and data availability challenges exist: definition, classifications and other metadata specifications; possible
national approaches for data collection/generation; piloting:
- To discuss and develop recommendations for selected “Tier 2” global core set of forest indicators (methodology is sound but data challenges still exist): addressing data availability issues, national approaches for data collection/generation
through existing structures and mechanisms, data generation through analytical tools; possible pilot studies;
- To discuss and develop recommendations on next steps/roadmap to further develop methodology and data availability on Tier 3 and Tier 2 indicators and to share views and discuss possible actions on enhancing the use of GCS indicators.
