FAO’s Comparative Advantage. FAO has responded positively to the letter from the Government of Tanzania requesting technical assistance to plan and implement national forestry resources assessment. FAO has sufficient knowledge, more than 60 years of experience, global leadership, and institutional networks to provide support to countries to strengthen their capacity and improve their forest resource management. Furthermore, countries through their recommendations in various sessions of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) and FAO Council continue to mandate FAO to do so. For example, COFO 2007 requested FAO, in collaboration with Members and partner organizations, to continue to support national monitoring, assessment and reporting on forests, including their social, economic and environmental benefits. The Committee urged Members, FAO and other partners to enhance international collaboration in this field, taking into account national specificities. This would help to bridge the gap between knowledge and policy and would improve sustainable forest management. It would also help to achieve the four Global Objectives on Forests agreed by the United Nations Forum on Forests at its Sixth Session, and to mainstream forestry within efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve sustainable water and land use, mitigate climate change and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. In order to respond to the growing needs of information about forest resources and carbon stocks at country and global levels including those needed for REDD+ mechanism, FAO’s Finnish funded forestry programme within the Forestry Department, provides support to 6 pilot countries to build national capacity, monitor and assess forestry resources, manage forest related information and link knowledge with national decision making processes. The programme relies on a holistic and cost effective approach to national forest assessments (including both biophysical, socioeconomic and local governance data) and on developing new methodologies using cutting edge technology especially in remote sensing and data analysis. FAO partners with UNEP and UNDP in the joint UN-XXXX Programme which is executed alongside NAFORMA and therefore is able to ensure synergies between the activities. Further that FAO continues its support to the development, implementation and monitoring of national forest programmes in partnership with the National Forest Programme Facility (NFP) and makes available updated information and knowledge su...
FAO’s Comparative Advantage. FAO11, the lead agency for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development, was founded in 1945 and currently comprises 191 member countries plus one member organization, the European Community. Its mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy. FAO mobilizes and manages millions of United States Dollars provided by industrialized countries, development banks and other sources to make sure that thousands of field projects achieve their goals. FAO provides the technical know-how and in a few cases is a limited source of funds. FAO Bangladesh currently implements several projects assisting food safety improvement in Bangladesh. This STDF project, which will be implemented by FAO in collaboration with other partners, will draw on the resources, experiences and lessons learned from those projects as well as other projects with relevance to small-scale farmer organizations, management, BMP application and certification. 11 xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx
FAO’s Comparative Advantage. FAO is mandated to assist member countries build their capacity and transfer state-of-the-art knowledge and technology to provide a range of sustainable forest management tools, including conducting monitoring and assessment of forest resources and strengthening institutional capacity for policy dialogue. FAO’s comparative advantage is seen in the breadth of its technical experience in designing and guiding forest inventories, policy processes and legislation. FAO also draws from an pool of experts who are able to assist in the implementation of the project. With the aid of the TA from FAO, Zambian ILUA has created a valuable baseline of information for policy makers, scientists and other end-users for development from an integrated perspective. Moreover, FAO offers an international forum for disseminating ILUA’s results and offers linkages to on-going international processes, such as XXXX, through its programmes. FAO is also actively participating in finding solutions to soil carbon mitigation challenges. FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) includes a global remote sensing survey (RSS) of forests. This survey is aimed at substantially improving the knowledge on land use change dynamics over time, including deforestation, afforestation and natural expansion of forests. The FRA 2010 Remote Sensing Survey builds on the experiences from the remote sensing surveys of the tropical region undertaken as part of previous
FAO’s Comparative Advantage. FAO has responded positively to the request from the Government of Angola for technical assistance to plan and implement the NFA. FAO has sufficient knowledge, of more than 60 years of experience, global leadership, and institutional networks to provide support to countries to strengthen their capacity and improve their forest resource management (FAO, 1947 and COFO 2007). Further more, countries through their recommendations in various sessions of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) and FAO Council, continue to mandate FAO to do so. For example, the last COFO (2007) requested FAO, in collaboration with Members and partner organizations, to continue to support national monitoring, assessment and reporting on forests, including their social, economic and environmental benefits. The Committee urged Members, FAO and other partners to enhance international collaboration in this field, taking into account national specificities. This would help to bridge the gap between knowledge and policy and would improve sustainable forest management. It would also help to achieve the four Global Objectives on Forests agreed by the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) at its Sixth Session, and to mainstream forestry within efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve sustainable water and land use, mitigate climate change and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. In order to respond to the growing needs of information about forests and trees issues at country and global levels, FAO has developed a programme within the Forestry Department, which provides support to memberships to build their capacity, monitor and assess forestry resources, manage forest related information and link knowledge with national decision making processes. The programme relies on a holistic and cost effective approach to NFAs, which is a result of wide international consultations. Further to that, FAO continues its support to the development, implementation and monitoring of national forest programmes in partnership with the NFP and makes available updated information and knowledge support for better forest resource management.
