innen und Eröffnung der Eschborner Fachtage 2000 - Gtz

Eschborner Fachtage 2000 - Themenschwerpunkt 1: Mitgestaltung internationaler Rahmenbedingungen
- The nfp is not a plan or a product, but a process. This process is iterative and continually
evolving. It goes beyond sectoral boundaries and constituencies.
- The nfp incorporates international agreements and processes in relation to forests.
- Preparing nfps is a participatory process with on-going consultation of all actors concerned.
This participatory process shall ensure commitment and support at all levels and
enhance political will for appropriate action, including the highest political level. Adequate
mechanisms for this consultative process have to be in place.
- Nfps are to support the formulation of positions towards the international level and to facilitate
international co-operation through co-ordination in a common framework.
2.4.4 Implementation of Nfps and international support
Quite a number of countries of the North and the South have embarked on processes for the
formulation and implementation of national forest programmes. European countries like
Germany, Great Britain and others have started the elaboration of national forest programmes.
Australia is in a process to implement the IPF Proposals for Action including the
design of a nfp in its federal set-up. In Finland, the national forest programme is already
being implemented. In the South, countries like Costa Rica, Ecuador, Malawi, Uganda, Indonesia,
Vietnam are presently in the process of formulating nfps in consistence with international
agreements and commitments.
Various international and bilateral donors have made nfps as the framework for international
co-operation, and increasingly acknowledge the concept as a framework for co-ordinated
support. In re-considering its approach to country support in the past within the framework of
the Tropical Forests Action Programme (TFAP) FAO has given emphasis to the implementation
of IPF/IFF Proposals and the concept of nfps. During regional workshops on the implementation
of IPF Proposals supported by FAO Regional Forestry Commissions, countries
reflected on the status of their national forest programmes. UNDP has launched its global
Programme on Forests (PROFOR) that aims at specific support to countries in developing
their national forest programmes and related partnership approaches. World Bank is considering
nfp processes as the adequate framework for its sector lending activities, while
linking forest sector support to macro-economic frame conditions. The G8 Forest Action Programme
proposed the nfp concept as the appropriate policy and planning framework towards
SFM in its member countries as well as in partner countries of the South.
The European Council and the Commission in their recent resolutions stress national forest
programmes as the adequate framework for forest sector related work in EU countries and
for support to partner countries (e.g. EU Council Resolution on Forests and Development,
November 1999, Doc. n° 248/99 (DEVGEN)). The existence of nfps has even become the
precondition for financial support to EU member states.
In a follow-up of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, Lisbon,
1998, the Pan-European Process acknowledged the need to work towards national forest
programmes in a wider perspective, setting the scene for the implementation of the nfp con-
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