This week, the UNFF Secretariat organized two capacity building workshop in Abidjan, in response to Côte d’Ivoire’s request for support in unlocking financing for its forests, and in collaboration with two members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. From 7 to 9 November 2019, the UNFF Secretariat and FAO co-organized a capacity-building workshop on designing […]

This week, the UNFF Secretariat and the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) organised the capacity-building workshop on designing projects on sustainable forest management in South Africa in Pretoria from 8 to 12 April 2019. This workshop was part of the UNFF Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN) activities and followed the […]

This week, the UNFF Secretariat organized a capacity-building workshop on forest financing from 18 to 22 February in Lilongwe, Malawi. The workshop was part of the activities of the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN) which is assisting Malawi in developing its national forest financing strategy and in building capacity for project formulation to access […]

This week, the UNFF Secretariat organized a workshop to validate the project concept note on the role of sustainable forest management in mitigating and adapting to climate change in the Islamic Republic of Iran was held in Tehran from 30 September to 2 October 2018. The workshop was opened by Dr. Kamran Pourmoghaddam, Head of […]

This week, as part of the activities of the UNFF Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN), the UNFF Secretariat organized a capacity-building workshop on designing projects on sustainable forest management in the Central African Republic in Bangui from 9 to 13 July 2018. The workshop was opened by Mr. Christian Aimé Mayonga, Inspector-General of the […]

This week, the UNFF Secretariat organized an expert meeting on financing sustainable forest management (SFM) in the Eastern Caribbean in Castries, St Lucia, from 11 to 15 June 2018. The meeting followed a request from the Governments of Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis and St Lucia to receive support from the UNFF Global Forest Financing […]

This week, the UNFF Secretariat organized a formulation and validation workshop from 4 to 8 June 2018 in Nadi, for Fiji’s concept note to the Green Climate Fund on sustainable forest management. The meeting brought together 26 participants from the Ministry of Forests, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization and civil society, including the […]

This week, the UNFF Secretariat organised an expert meeting on the Contribution of the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN) to the Implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2030, in Chengdu, China, from 6 to 8 March 2018. The meeting was co-organised by the Government of China, and attended by 44 participants from […]

With the assistance of the UNFF Secretariat, Ecuador has started to lay the groundwork to develop a national action plan to implement the UN Forest Instrument (UNFI). Between 18 and 22 of January 2016 the Secretariat met with government officials and other key stakeholders in Quito to discuss the development of Ecuador’s national action plan […]