Asia Forest Partnership (AFP)

The activities of AFP have finished in April 2013.

1. Objectives:

The objective of Asia Forest Partnership (AFP) is to promote sustainable forest management in Asia-Pacific region by addressing the following urgent issues:

(a) Good governance and forest law enforcement;
(b) Developing capacity for effective forest management;
(c) Control of illegal logging;
(d) Control of forest fire;
(e) Rehabilitation and reforestation of degraded lands.

2. Activities:

Partners are to cooperate in such areas as:

(1) Development of forest policies, plans and programs including national forest programs;
(2) Development of land use and natural resource management arrangements;
(3) Use of satellite data for providing basic information for forest management;
(4) Promotion of research, information exchange and use of satellite data and mapping to tackle forest fire and haze and regional actions for prevention and control of fire;
(5) Promotion of reforestation and afforestation to rehabilitate degraded lands;
(6) Establishment and implementation of reduced impact logging and guidelines for controlling illegal logging;
(7) Developing and enhancing log tracking capacity and introduction of verification system such as labeling;
(8) Promoting effective measures, in both importing and exporting countries, to eliminate export and import of illegally harvested timber;
(9) International cooperation and coordination on trade statistics, information exchange on illegal logging and illegal trade, study of possible measures related to trade;
(10) Development of regional data sharing program on illegal logging;
(11) Undertaking research on impact of illegal logging;
(12) Awareness raising through holding seminars on combating illegal logging and enhancing understanding on the multiple benefits of forest;
(13) Promoting participation of various kinds of stakeholders including Major Groups and local communities;
(14) Human resource development;
(15) Institutional development and capacity building;
(16) Strengthening of inter-sectoral coordination within governments.

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