Monitoring Forest Resources for SFM in

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Monitoring Forest Resources for SFM in
the UNECE Region
UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists (Work Area FRA
and CI for SFM)
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ToS was established/ approved
By Joint session of the Timber Committee (UNECE)
and FAO European Forestry Commission, Geneva, 5-9
October 2004 (proposals from the Strategic
Review of the UNECE/FAO Integrated Work
Programme, and recommendations of the Joint
Bureaux)
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Guiding Principles

• UNECE Guidelines for the establishment and
  functioning of Teams of Specialists
• adopted by Commission in June 2003
• procedures are applied by UNECE/FAO
• experience from previous work
• (membership, methods of work, officers,
  secretariat, role of members, proforma mandate,
  etc) - see Guidelines

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TC EFC Joint session 2004

• Joint session adopted Integrated Work
  Programme (ToS context)
• 2.1. Indicators of SFM in the region
• 2.2 Regional contribution to global FRA
• 2.3 Support to development of national systems
  for forest monitoring
• Endorsed settinig up the ToS on FRA and CI
• Approved the Mandate of new ToS

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Mandate / Objectives
To advise UNECE/FAO and FAO secretariats on
implementation of activities in Work Area Forest
Resources Assessment and Indicators of
Sustainable Forest Management in the Region,
and more specifically.
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ToS Objectives

• To contribute to the coordination of reporting
  on CI for SFM by MCPFE and Montreal process
  countries
• To support the regional contribution to the
  global FRA
• To support development of national systems of
  forest monitoring
• To contribute to the institutional
  cooperation on monitoring of forests (EU, MCPFE,
  COST E43, et al).

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ToS work frames
Duration From 2005 to 2008
Methods of work Annual meetings Communication
among ToS members between the annual meetings,
communication with country focal points.
Experts non ToS members are invited when when
necessary/ appropriate
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Expected major output (nearest within the next
18 months after the ToS establishment)

Outline (Enquiry) for Country Reporting on the
pan-European Criteria and Indicators for
Sustainable Forest Management
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ToS parent bodies
Reporting to The Joint FAO/UNECE Working Party
on Forest Economics and Statistics and annual
Bureaux meetings UNECE Timber Committee and FAO
European Forestry Commission Joint Bureaux
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Working Party guidance (details are to be
reported later)

• Necessity to maintain strong regional
  FRA-related activities in the global context
• Support to regional FRA ToS work
• Financial support and capacity building FRA
  2005 workshops, ToS meetings, consultancies, etc
• (document TIM/EFC/WP.2/2005/9, pp. 4-6)

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ToS management

• Leadership The ToS Leader and his/her
  Deputy(ies) are to be elected during the first
  (inaugural) meeting of the Team
• Membership Officially nominated and
  individually invited experts
• Secretariat UNECE/FAO staff member(s)

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Current Agenda Focus

• 1st meeting, 25-27 April 2005, Geneva
• FRA- and CI- related developments
• Preparation for reporting to MCPFE 2007/08
• Global FRA 2005 implementation
• Draft Enquiry for MCPFE reporting
• Montreal MCPFE cooperation
• Future role of the regional ToS

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ToS Values and Merits

• Communication Forum for specialists in the
  specific forestry-related area
• Maintaining and development of the
  international (region-wide) expertise relating to
  FRA and CI for SFM aspects
• Think Tank contributiong to a number of
  regional and global initiatives, processes and
  projects (global FRA, MCPFE, MP, EU.)

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ToS Values and Merits (cont)

• Cost-efficient tool (mechanism) for elaborating
  checking new ideas
• Independence from many formalities which
  might be binding activities within some other
  institutions and bodies
• Allows to get ideas to be endorsed (approved)
  by the inter-governmental structures, bodies
• Window of opportunity for participants

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ToS Values and Merits (cont)

• Opportunities /possibilities for international
  networking
• Link between specialists and policy people
  (reality check)
• Open discussions that is not a sort of
  tough-love diplomacy manoeuvring
• Special feeling of being a part of an
  international TEAM

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Participants are invited

• discuss and comment on the New ToS settings
• discuss and comment on its Agenda items
• to discuss the planning of the new Team of
  Specialists activities, and come up with
  proposals for its future work in the global FRA
  and MCPFE 2007/08 contexts
• to provide proposals on the follow-up work to
  the recommendations of the former regional ToS on
  Forest Resources Assessment

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ToS meeting is invited (cont.)

• to suggest additional relevant issues to be
  addressed by the Team of Specialists (in general,
  and specifically)
• to discuss and provide an advice on the
  resource/ financial support of the ToS
  activities.

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ToS Web-page (to be developed)
http//www.unece.org/trade/timber
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Thank You !
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