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Regional Workshop on Review of ADB Forest Policy

Asian Development Bank Headquarters, No. 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, Philippines 14-15 February 2002

Post-Workshop Statement

The Workshop ended on 15 February 2002. Learn more about the workshop.

Objectives

  • Present and discuss the results of ADB forestry portfolio analysis with multisector stakeholders.
  • Obtain insights on the perspective of selected communities on the effectiveness and impact of past ADB forestry activities.
  • Identify Forest sector policy, legal and institutional constraints in Asia.
  • Identify macro forest resource demand and supply trends, and technological challenges in Asia.
  • Present and discuss proposed ADB forest sector strategic framework.
  • Solicit multistakeholder inputs on how to plan and implement future ADB forest sector initiatives/investments.

Expected Outputs

  • Lesson learned in past ADB forest sector portfolio.
  • Forest sector policy, legal and institutional constraints in Asia.
  • Draft ADB forest sector strategic framework

Participants

Representatives from ADB's developing member countries specifically key-policy and decision makers, private sector, civil society, NGOs, and development agencies.

Resource Speakers

Selected resource persons from ADB's member countries

Workshop Documents

Contacts

Javed Hussain Mir
Forestry Specialist, Mission Leader
Tel : (632) 632-5595
Email: jhmir@adb.org

Judy Vermudo
RETA Coordinator
Tel: (632) 6324444 loc 7751
Email: jvermudo@adb.org


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