Establishing programmes on forest resources

Description

Establishing programmes on forest resources involves designing and implementing coordinated actions to sustainably manage, conserve, and restore forests. This strategy addresses deforestation, habitat loss, and resource depletion by promoting reforestation, sustainable harvesting, community engagement, and monitoring systems. Its practical intent is to ensure long-term ecological health, secure livelihoods, and maintain biodiversity, while providing remedies such as capacity-building, policy development, and the integration of scientific and traditional knowledge in forest management practices.

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends establishing national assessment and systematic observation systems and the evaluation of programmes and processes, including establishment of definitions, standards, norms and intercalibration methods, and the capability for initiating corrective action as well as improving the formulation and implementation of programmes and projects.