Activities

Specific activities of the component include:

• bringing partners together to coordinate the delivery of their country support programmes to ensure efficiency,
• maximize comparative advantages and avoid duplication or overlap;
  
• collaborative training and direct assistance to help meet countries’ monitoring needs and accelerate progress towards achieving their forest and emissions reporting requirements;
  
• training in the use of GFOI’s Methods and Guidance Documentation (MGD), REDDcompass and broader GFOI Family of Resources (GFoR);
  
• training in the use of other GFOI partners’ tools, methods and datasets;
  
• identifying and addressing new and enhanced guidance needs with the MGD component;
  
• identifying and addressing impediments to the use of data and tools to improve monitoring practices with the Data Coordination Component; and
  
• identifying and addressing issues hindering country progress with the Research and Development Coordination Component.

The work of the CB Component is based on the collaborative efforts of GFOI’s partners. It is led by the National Forest Monitoring (NFM) team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which provides the component’s management functions in close collaboration with other GFOI partners. It also works closely with other CB partners in the World Bank, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), universities and other various development partners. It was previously co-led by the SilvaCarbon programme of the United States of America, which is no longer active. The GFOI continues to coordinate and disseminate the various products, tools and associated capabilities built under the SilvaCarbon programme as well as other former US Government-funded forest monitoring programmes.