ENPI East Countries FLEG II Program

The Program will support the participating countries strengthen forest governance through improving implementation of relevant international processes, enhancing their forest policy, legislation and institutional arrangements, and developing, testing and evaluating sustainable forest management models at the local level on a pilot basis for future replication. The three specific Program Development Objectives are to: i) make progress implementing the 2005 St. Petersburg Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) Ministerial Declaration in the participating countries and support the participating countries commit to a time-bound action plan to ensure its implementation and follow-up activities (regional level); ii) review or revise (or establish a time-bound action plan to review or revise) forest sector policies and legal and administrative structures; improve knowledge of and support for sustainable forest management and good forest governance(including the impact of related EU regulations) in the participating countries (national level); and, iii) test and demonstrate best practices for sustainable forest management and the feasibility of improved forest governance practices at the field-level on a pilot basis in all participating countries (sub-national level).