A careful evaluation of the decade-old reforms could hold valuable lessons for China’s efforts to fine-tune its legal and regulatory environment to maximize potential gains from these reforms, and to guide other countries that want to improve the way in which state forests are managed.
With PROFOR support, the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific staff will help prepare a roadmap for policy and institutional reforms in key state forest management areas in Northeast China, to promote the transformation of practices toward economic viability, sustainable forest resource management, and local livelihood security.
Choose carefully when you design forestry projects. Choices of local partners influence the formation and consolidation of local democracy by affecting representation, citizenship, and the public domain.
