Implementing the Proposals for Action of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests and the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests:

A tool to assist national-level assessment of progress and priorities for action toward sustainable forest management (SFM), developed in support of the United Nations Forum on Forests

Over a period of five years (1995-2000), the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) and the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF) met to examine a wide range of forest-related topics. This dialogue resulted in more than 270 proposals for action on how to move towards sustainable forest management (SFM), representing significant progress and international consensus on this issue.

This booklet is a consolidated summary of the IPF/IFF proposals for action aimed at facilitating national-level assessment and implementation. The summary is organized according to the fifteen programme elements of the PoA of the UNFF in order to facilitate reporting to the UNFF. To encourage greater collaboration between the work of the UNFF and the CBD at all levels, this summary includes reference to the CBD's forest biodiversity work programme as well as relevant COP-6 Decisions. The booklet was produced jointly by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry of Australia (AFFA) and PROFOR.

The National Forest Program Facility provided funding for the translation of the booklet into French and Spanish.

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