Report on the workshop on government policy reform for forestry conservation and development

Abstract

The workshop focused on normative rather than diagnostic matters, and the participants were renowned members of the govemmental and non-govemmental sectors, academia, the private sector and selected intemational technical and financial agencies. (The list of participants can be found in Annex 2). The workshop methodology included the presentation of a series of papers,the majority of which were written for the workshop (the list of which appears in Annex 3); however, most of the time and energy' of the workshop was devoted to group discussions and presentations, as well as plenary sessions. The frame of reference of the workshop was sustainable development, that is to say, a combination of the concepts of equity, competitiveness and sustainability. Efforts were made to avoid an exclusively environmental or development-oriented This report covers the principal points developed in the presentations by the people who wrote the workshop papers, and the results of discussions conducted in working groups and plenary sessions. The latter make up the bulk of this report.