Stakeholders and Target Beneficiaries. The main stakeholders of the project are: - MTENR (including Forestry Department, Environment and Natural Resources Department, Planning and Information Department, Department of Human Resources and Administration, Environmental Council of Zambia, Zambia Forestry College) is the primary stakeholder organization and is also in charge of ILUA data input, maintenance and development of country-wide ILUA II approach. - Ministry of Finance and National Planning; - Department of Agriculture (Ministry and Agriculture and Cooperatives); - Central Statistical Office (CSO); - Survey Department (Ministry of Lands); - National Remote Sensing Centre (Ministry of Science and Industrial Research); - Environmental Council of Zambia (ECZ); 6 UNAIDS/WHO, 2008. 7 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) 2007. HIV prevalence. Paper published by the Central Statistical Office of Zambia. - University of Zambia (UMZA), Copperbelt University; - Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); - National Institute for Scientific Research (NISA), Zambian Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI); - Other national and international education and research institutes; - Communities and/small holder farmers; - NGOs and civil society; - UN-XXXX and other projects; - FAO and other CPs. Zambia has signed several international commitments, which require the government to deliver information on the natural environment, including forest lands. Zambia has commitments in international processes and with international organizations, such as the FAO Forest Resource Assessment (FRA), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), UNFCCC, the expected post Kyoto Agreement on XXXX etc. To fulfill these commitments, quality information is required. The beneficiaries of the project can be summarized as - policy and decision makers; - forest industries with an interest in timber and non-timber forest products from forest areas; - the international community and international organizations requiring reliable ENR data; - NGOs, academia and grass roots organizations with interests in forest resource management, environmental protection, timber trade and extension; - general public. Basic statistics and maps are needed for public use, for instance in schools; - rural communities and small holder farmers.
Stakeholders and Target Beneficiaries. Involvement of stakeholders in the developmental projects assumed to guarantee their sustainability. In course of NFA process various stakeholders are involved in the planning and implementation phases, (like the initial information needs analysis and the stakeholder consultations that lead to the revision of the methodology and sampling design (appendix 6). The key identified stakeholders and targeted beneficiaries include:
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