Sustainable forest management requires coordinated cooperation across several sectors to ensure that policies and practices are not undermined by activities stimulated by general macroeconomic policy shifts or changed levels of investment in other sectors such as agriculture, energy, mining, and transportation. PROFOR supports analysis of adverse cross-sectoral and macroeconomic impacts on the forest sector, and identifies policies that contradict the goal of sustainable forest practices and are the source of underlying causes of poor forest management. Through support to national forest programs or similar processes rooted in a participatory multi-sectoral approach, PROFOR fosters mechanisms for coordinating policy across sectors and works to identify cross-sectoral polies that support SFM. Initially, PROFOR's work in this area is focused on the potential impacts of the World Bank's adjustment lending programs on the forest sector.