Title: "A programme of EU Tropical Forestry Information Consolidation, Networking and Dissemination"

Project number: B7-5041/95.03/VIII/FOR

Amount: 2.800.000 ECU

Contractor: Overseas Development Institute (London - UK)

Field: Forestry Information / Networking / Dissemination

Country: Developing countries, Commission and Member States

Date of signature: 22/12/95; date of receipt by the Commission: 24/12/95

Duration: 36 months

Objectives:

To enable developing country partners:

• to improve conservation and sustainable development of forest resources;
• to gain better knowledge of the Community and Member States' contributions to the future of tropical forests and
• to facilitate better incorporation of experience from the developing countries where tropical forests are located.

Activities:

1. The production of an EU Forestry Sourcebook, which will contain a chapter on each of the Member States' tropical forestry activities and strategies in the forestry sector;
2. The production of a series of EU Tropical Forestry Papers, which will go beyond the scope of the source book and provide analyses of differing approaches which have been taken within Europe to solve some specific tropical forestry problems;
3. The production of Rural Development Forestry Network papers and newsletters;
4. The organisation of workshops and training sessions to provide opportunities for interaction between developing country partners, the Community and member States;
5. The establishment of a Tropical Forestry Projects Database.

Results expected:

1. Forestry Sourcebook. It addresses information needs of developing countries' governments, the non-European donor community, international fora, the Commission and the Member States themselves;

2. EU Tropical Forestry Papers (print-run: 5000). They will be circulated to key planners and policy-makers in developing countries and in Europe, to bilateral and multilateral funders and to a list of other professionals as determined by the EC;

3. Six mailings of the Rural Development Forestry Network to a maximum of 5000 networkers all over the world (in English, French and Spanish) will take place over three years;

4. EC Forestry workshops in Europe: the first in year 1 and two smaller workshops in year 3;

5. Forestry Projects Database. Training and support in use of the project forms and data-base will be provided as soon as the system has been set up and approved. Annual analyses of the database, providing data to be determined during the setting-up process, will be published with comment and suggestion for the future.

Beneficiaries:

Developing countries, Community and Members States.

Implementation strategy:

Research staff for each activity, secretarial, monitoring and impact evaluation specialists, documentalist, production, print and dissemination, database technical consultants, travel, workshops.

Component 1. Forestry Sourcebook: available online;

Component 2. EU Tropical Forestry Papers; available online;
- EUTFP 1 'Internalising the Externalities' of Tropical Forestry: A Review of Innovative Financing and Incentive Mechanisms.
- EUTFP 2 'Principles and Practice of Forest Co-Management: Evidence from West-Central Africa.'
- EUTFP 2 'Forestry Issues in the Guiana Shield Region: A Perspective on Guyana and Suriname.'

Component 3. Rural Development Forestry Network; issues available online;

Component 4. EC Forestry workshops in Europe: see EUTFPs;

Component 5. Forestry Projects Database:
This component is the TROPICS information system;