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The NFP Facility entered the first Partnership Agreement with China in 2002 with focus on supporting the bottom-up approach of reviewing forestry action plan in Simao district, in the tropical province of Yunnan of West China. Bsed on the results of 2002 review, the NFP Facility funded another review of the forestry sector at the provincial level in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in in 2003. Besides, the Facility also supported the development of a forestry website for widely disseminating important information related to forestry and the environment. Initially, the proposed website was meant to communicate achievements, impacts, lessons learned and experiences related to sustainable forest management broadly and to the six national forest programmes in particular. Later, the website coverage was extended to issues including criteria and indicators, forest certification, codes of practice for forest harvesting, combating desertification, training materials related to implementing sustainable forest management as well as policies and laws at the international, national and provincial levels. Information on the web site was to be provided in both English and Chinese.

The first Partnership Agreement between China and the Facility has had a positive impact on China’s forestry development and policy reform in achieving SFM and has contributing significantly to the achievement of the goals under international forestry agreements.

In 2009, following an assessment and evaluation conducted using the nfp-Matrix of outputs and impacts of the first seven years of work, the NFP Facility and China renewed their commitment to working together on the national forest programme process through the signing of a new Partnership Agreement. The overall objective of this new Agreement was to continue facilitation of the active participation of stakeholders whose voice in China’s forest policy formulation process was perceived to be weak. More specifically, the partnership’s aim was to i) promote cooperation and collaboration between the forestry sector and other related sectors; ii) enhance stakeholder partnership and participation in collective forestry tenure reform; iii) establish a mechanism for strengthening collaboration between forestry agencies at a variety of levels, groups from the traditional forestry sector and community based organizations. The key activities and expected outputs of the new Agreement are i) convening of a nfp Youth Program which includes training workshops and research studies focused on improving young people’s knowledge about sustainable forest management, the national forest programme and forestry broadly, both within China and internationally; ii) in-depth implementation of a new tenure system for China’s collective forests; iii) development of a Guideline for County-level Forest Management Planning and Policy Recommendations to strengthen the on-going reform to the harvest quota management system; iv) promotion and application of a participatory mechanism for forest management planning in remote and ethnic areas of China.

A key component of the new Partnership Agreement is the implementation of regular monitoring and evaluation of China’s progress and accomplishments by a monitoring team. The China NFP National Committee is working with the NFP Facility in order that this exercise may be as effective and productive as possible.

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01 Dec 2011

Assessment of the nfp

In order to assess the progress and status of the nfp process, the Facility and FAO have designed a matrix to provide a clearer picture of how the country nfp processing are evolving, which elements are well developed and which elements remain weak and in need of further attention. The matrix has been tested in the countries to ensure the relevance of its indicators.

The matrix contains indicators for each phase of the nfp process: analysis, policy formulation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. The indicators are clustered according to the primary nfp principles: country ownership, inter- and intra-sectoral linkages, partnerships and participation.

The matrix below was completed by stakeholders, in a participatory way, during a national workshop.

Each indicator was rated as follows:

the indicator has not been developed
the indicator is absent from the country nfp process
the indicator exists but is incipient
the indicator is progressing well within the country nfp process
the indicator is completed to the country’s full satisfaction - can serve as a model for others to follow

Implemented Activities