NENA forests has huge potential for the production of a wide range of NWFPs and that the utilization of NWFPs by local communities for food, fodder, medicine and income generation have been practiced for millennia. 
The workshop will allow participants to develop a regional project which will contribute to poverty reduction and livelihoods improvement of the rural poor forest-dependent people in the targeted countries through maximizing their gains from the commercialization of the NWFPs.