In 2003, the NFP Facility and the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD), the official coordination and support mechanism of the Ministries of Environment of the Central American countries, entered into a Partnership Agreement. The main objective of the Agreement was to implement the Central American Forestry Strategy (EFCA) by building the capacity of Central American countries in: (i) applying innovative financial mechanisms for sustainable forest management (SFM); (ii) developing clean development mechanism (CDM) projects; (iii) establishing of a Central American system of criteria and indicators for SFM; and (iv) establishing a monitoring system to analyze the evolution of forest related cross-cutting themes in the region.