Drawing upon FAO’s experience and lessons learned from member countries, these guidelines are designed to support countries’ efforts to strengthen their national forest monitoring capacities. They offer ‘good practice’ principles and a general framework, as well as tools for planning and implementing multi-purpose national forest monitoring grounded in nationally appropriate...

This flyer gives a brief overview of FAO's expertise and capacities to support partner countries on land tenure reform and REDD+ implementation.

This publication provides a status report on progress and achievements related to the MRV of REDD+ activities, as well as an update on activities related to countries’ submissions of their Forest Reference (Emission) Levels (FRELs/FRLs). The report also summarizes experiences with the technical assessment process, as of early 2017, and...

This document uses the publication "Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change" (Olofsson et al. 2014) as a framework to provide recommendations for designing and implementing an accuracy assessment for land cover  and land cover change maps, and for estimating area based on the results from the...

This note aims to inform staff responsible for forest reference emission level and/or forest reference level (FREL/FRL) construction about the use, and potential added value and/or limitations, of spatial modeling. Illustrated with country examples.