Collaborative Partnership on Forests funding seed fund

Many members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests are active in the partnership.

(ix) Documentation for inter agency meetings Collaborative Partnership on Forests policy document and concept paper (2) information notes on the meetings of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and Collaborative Partnership on Forests Network to be made available on the Forum website (6)

(b) Providing a coordination mechanism at the international level, including the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and making more extensive use of the Partnership to carry out joint and collaborative initiatives

Collaborative Partnership on Forests Framework 2005 (E CN.18 2005 INF 1)

The dynamic core of the Mountain Partnership is Partnership Initiatives areas of collaborative work identified and implemented by members.

Members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests have also found the Partnership to be a functional means of efficient cooperation.

Ministerial dialogue with heads of organizations and members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests

(c) Be open to members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and major groups

Invites the Collaborative Partnership on Forests to engage in a more proactive process by

(viii) Substantive servicing of inter agency meetings servicing of meetings of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests Network (6) substantive service, support and advice to task forces and steering committees of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, including those on harmonization of definitions streamlining of reporting and Global Forest Information Service (6)

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests Framework 2005 (E CN.18 2005 INF 1) provides an assessment of the progress of the Partnership since its inception in 2001, highlighting joint initiatives of Partnership members and describing other collaborative activities undertaken to promote sustainable forest management worldwide.

Urges Member States to send consistent messages to governing bodies of members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests so that the Partnership

At the same meeting, the Chairman of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests made a statement.

(s) Support the efforts of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests to develop and implement joint initiatives.

Decides that the Forum will continue to provide clear guidance to the Collaborative Partnership on Forests

(b) Information document on the Collaborative Partnership on Forests Framework (E CN.18 2005 INF 1).

(e) Encourage the heads of international organizations to continue supporting the Collaborative Partnership on Forests to help facilitate the implementation of Forum decisions and to make greater use of the Partnership in carrying out joint and collaborative programmes, within their existing mandates

(b) A collaborative framework on forests with a declaration of commitment on sustainable forest management, means of implementation, a strengthened reporting mechanism and a stronger secretariat and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests

Specific criterion (iii) The extent to which the Collaborative Partnership on Forests members have responded to the guidance of the Forum

Statements were also made by the Chair, Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), as well as by the following representatives of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests International Tropical Timber Organization the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Convention on Biological Diversity, on behalf of the Executive Secretary and United Nations Environment Programme.

A number of forest related events and workshops were held in conjunction with the Congress by members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests.

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests Framework 2005 (E CN.18 2005 INF 1) provides detailed information on actions taken by members of the Partnership in support of the implementation of the plan of action.

(g) alt2 bis Also inviting the governing body of the Programme of Forests hosted by the World Bank to establish a fund to facilitate collaborative work among members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests at global and regional levels

The need for more streamlining and harmonization of forest related reporting is being addressed by a task force of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests.

It is further expected that other member organizations of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests might be in a position to second staff to the secretariat.

This Partnership, launched in March 2003, currently comprises more than 20 partners and sponsors, including nine members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, several Governments and governmental agencies, non governmental organizations and a growing number of companies.

(ii) Training courses, seminars and workshops training courses, seminars and or workshops in selected areas of sustainable forest management and for furthering coordinated and collaborative efforts in support of sustainable forests management, including those of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and major groups.

The Forum will have before it for its consideration the note by the Secretariat on this agenda item and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests Framework 2005.

The multi year programme of work includes two high level ministerial segments and policy dialogues with the heads of member organizations of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests.

Collaborative efforts are underway between the African Union and ECA, under the guidelines of the New Partnership for Africa's Development, to provide a framework for such rationalization.

We should also establish a firm collaborative partnership between States, civil society, regional organizations and the United Nations system that can help create a more peaceful world.

Specific criterion (i) The extent to which countries, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and other actors have made progress in implementing the relevant IPF IFF proposals for action

The plenary session was organized as a policy dialogue between ministers, heads of member organizations of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and high level representatives of major groups.

They also make a number of other suggestions for strengthening, including an enhanced role for the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, linking the arrangement to FAO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (and relocating the secretariat), extending the Bureau by including representatives of regional processes and allowing participation from the secretariat of the regional processes on forests in the work of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests.

3. Collaborative projects.

There has been a lot of competition in the past, and we need to develop a new model of partnership, truly collaborative, where we are looking for complementing, not substituting.

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CPF members note that the Partnership has embarked on a number of joint initiatives and other collaborative activities such activities have also helped to foster synergies and trust among CPF members.

(f) Recognizing the role played by civil society, the private sector, intergovernmental organizations, including members of the collaborative partnership on forests, and major stakeholder groups in promoting sustainable forest management worldwide.

(g) Request the Forum secretariat to continue actively participating in and supporting the Collaborative Partnership on Forests as well as enhancing cooperation with relevant international and regional partnerships, processes and bodies.

This project addresses transit transport collaborative solutions as part of the special needs of landlocked countries, one of the targets of Millennium Development Goal 8 (Develop a global partnership for development).

Re emphasizing the importance of the United Nations Forum on Forests as the high level intergovernmental body on forests within the United Nations and the continued supporting role of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and the need for the Forum to provide the Partnership with clear guidance,

3. Invites, in particular, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, as the Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, within its mandate, to support the implementation of the Year