Programme of Work in Forestry under the Reviewed Strategic Framework (Item 9)

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Programme of Work in Forestry under the Reviewed
Strategic Framework (Item 9)
Eva Muller, Director, FOA René Castro, Assistant
Director-General
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Overview

• Medium Term Plan (MTP) 2014-2017 (reviewed)
  approved by Conference in June 2015
• Global developments in 2015 will guide FAOs
  future work
• New MTP 2018-2021 will be formed during 2016
• Approval of new MTP by Council and Conference in
  the first half of 2017

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Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more
productive and sustainable
Help Eliminate hunger, food insecurity and
malnutrition
Reduce rural poverty
Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and
food systems
Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats
and crises
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Forestrys achievements 2014-2015
Strengthened the provision of key
forestry information Promoted
restoration of degraded lands Reduced rural
poverty and improved food security Promoted
sustainable value chains Combatted climate
change (cross cutting) Curbed illegal logging
and trade /governance Built resilience
including in mountain areas Collaborated through
the World Forestry Congress Strengthened gender
mainstreaming (cross cutting)
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GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS
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Proposed Future Priorities for FAOs Work in
Forestry

• Sustainable Development Goals
• - Monitoring forest related indicators FRA,
  Mountain Green Cover Index CPF
• Climate Change (COP22)
• - Technical support provided to countries for
  NDCs Move to REDD implementation
  land use change pilot assessment adaptation
  measures and restoration of drylands and
  degraded lands
• Food security and nutrition
• - Develop inclusive and harmonized policy
  frameworks indicators and data collection
  methods to quantify forests contribution to
  food security and nutrition supporting
  sustainable agriculture in mountain areas
• Assessment and monitoring of forest resources
• - Open Foris developed and refined including
  through Google partnership FRA 2020 adapted
  for SDGs and Paris Agreement indicators for
  wood fuel and non-wood forest products

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Proposed Priorities for FAOs Future Work in
Forestry

• Youth Employment and Empowerment
• - A World Forestry Congress XIV priority
  explore opportunities through the Advisory
  Panel on Forest Knowledge develop products to
  support labour and workplace standards
• Forestry Value Chains and Reducing Poverty
• - Focus on rural areas and the contribution of
  forest products to the bioeconomy promote SMEs
  and effective producer organizations,
  including through FFF improvement of wood
  energy value chains, particularly in Africa
• Forest Governance
• - Strong focus on policy, legal and
  institutional frameworks including through
  FLEGT (and linked to REDD safeguards)
• Technical Excellence
• - Support to statutory bodies relating to
  forestry and COFO SOFO 2018 CPF XV World
  Forestry Congress preparations
• Gender (cross-cutting)
• - Mainstreaming gender in a greater number of
  forestry projects and programmes focus on
  capacity building and strengthening networks

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The Committee may wish to consider to

Take note and provide any comments on the
developments and trends identified with respect
to the forestry sector
Provide guidance on the main priorities for FAOs
work in forestry to be considered in the
Strategic Framework review and preparation of
the Medium Term Plan 2018-21
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FAOs forestry work Getting the job done!
THANK YOU