What is it about?

Criteria and indicators constitute an increasingly common policy tool to implement sustainable forest management (SFM) and to define clear priorities and targets. This should improve monitoring , reporting and assessment of key aspects of SFM performance. These guidelines provide specific concepts, definitions, tools and reference materials to guide the development process of national criteria and indicator sets for SFM.These guidelines have been developed to support the project "Accountability Systems for Sustainable Forest Management in the Caucasus and Central Asia" which is implemented through the UNECE and FAO Forestry and Timber Section and funded through the UN Development Account. The guidelines and the methods described within are used and applied for the development of national criteria and indicator sets for sustainable forest management in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

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Why is it important?

The guidelines might be also relevant for other countries and related processes.

Perspectives

This publication provides methods, tools as well as experiences of other processes and countries to elaborate national sets of C&I for SFM to better fulfil international reporting obligations on forests and forestry.

Dr. Stefanie Linser
niversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

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This page is a summary of: Guidelines for the Development of a Criteria and Indicator Set for Sustainable Forest Management, June 2019, United Nations Publications,
DOI: 10.18356/235aa26b-en.
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