This project has been developed in response to various calls from Member States to support their efforts in the implementation of the Non-Legally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forests (Forest Instrument). The main objective of the project is to increase capacity of countries to develop a National Action Plan (NAP) to advance implementation of the Forest Instrument. This will be done through conducting inventories of existing forest-related activities, programme
policy and strategy documents, assessment needs and, finally, development of NAPs for six pilot countries: Fiji, Gabon, India, Jamaica, Mongolia, Ecuador. The NAPs will be developed jointly with national entities and in collaboration with relevant UN agencies such as FAO, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the United Nations Convention to Combat Dese1iification (UNCCD). To ensure full paiiicipation of all relevant national stakeholders in each of the six pilot countries, consultation meetings will be held allowing exchange of views and providing feedback on the national actions to implement the Forest Instrument and achieve Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). To maximize. the application of the NAPs developed through the project, the work carried out, experience and lessons learned in the pilot countries will be shared with a wider number of countries through two inter-regional workshops.