Workshop on Reporting on Global Forest Goals and targets of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030

The UNFF Secretariat/DESA in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) organised a three-day workshop on reporting on progress made towards the achievement of the Global Forests Goals (GFGs) and targets of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030 (UNSPF) which was held from 16-18 November 2018 at FAO HQ in Rome, Italy. The workshop provided an opportunity to review and clarify terms used in the Global Forest Goals and targets and develop explanatory notes for national reporting to the Forum.

Documents

• Meeting Report | Explanatory Notes for national reports to UNFF15
• List of Participants
• Provisional Organisation of Work
• Concept note

Presentations

• Presentation on Setting the Scene: The UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030 and the 2030 Agenda (UNFFS) [PPT]
• Presentation on Setting the Scene: Format for reporting on progress towards the implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030 (UNFFS) [PPT]
• Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) presentation on background, the key features, current state for FRA 2020 (FAO) [PPT]
• Global Core Set of Forest Indicators presentation on status/challenges (FAO) [PPT]
• Presentation on Explanatory notes for reporting on The UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030 (UNFFS) [PPT]
• Reporting on Global Forest Goal 2, presentation on background (UNFFS) [PPT]
• Monitoring and reporting on forest related socio-economic data: FAO support to socio-economic data collection in National Forest Inventories [PPT] | Socioeconomic surveys in forestry [PPT] | Issues related to Targets 2.1 and 2.3 [PPT]
• Socio-economic data collection – presentations from Member States: Kenya | Peru | Philippines

Relevant Documents

• Report of the 13th session of the UN Forum on Forests E/CN.18/2018/9 [ Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish ]
• ECOSOC Resolution 2017/4: United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030 and quadrennial programme of work of the United Nations Forum on Forests for the period 2017–2020 E/RES/2017/4
  [Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish ]
• ECOSOC Resolution 2015/33: International arrangement on forests beyond 2015 [Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish ]
• United Nations forest instrument
  A/RES/70/199 (2016) Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish
  A/RES/62/98 (2008) Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish

Background

At its 13th session in May 2019, the United Nations Forum on Forests adopted a format for voluntary national reporting to the UNFF and invited Members States to submit their voluntary national reports by mid-November 2019. The UNFF reporting format is structured around the Global Forest Goals and targets of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030, and is primarily qualitative in nature. In developing the format, due consideration was given to reduce reporting burdens and accordingly, quantitative information related to progress in the Global Forest Goals and targets will be retrieved from existing data sources.