The 17th Commonwealth Forestry Congress focused on the theme "Forestry's Contribution for Poverty Reduction". At the congress, PROFOR and its partners in the initiative to better measure forests-poverty linkages and integrate forests into poverty reduction strategy process presented on progress to date in the development of the methodological framework for assessing forests-poverty linkages and draw linkages to broader national governance processes. CFC website: http://www.cfa-international.org/CFC2005.html