European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument East Countries Forest Law Enforcement and Governance II Program

The European neighborhood and
partnership instrument east countries forest law enforcement
and second governance program will support the participating
countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova,
Russian Federation and Ukraine) in strengthening forest
governance through improving implementation of relevant
international processes, enhancing their forest policy,
legislation and institutional capacity, and developing,
testing and evaluating sustainable forest management models
at the local level on a pilot basis for future replication.
The main development objectives of the program are aimed to
make progress in implementing and reviewing policies
documents, in testing and demonstrate the best practices for
sustainable forest management. The program consists of
regional, national and sub-national components supporting
the continuation of phase one activities, organizing joint
meetings during the program implementation, promoting a good
investment climate and a credible private sector operators,
maintaining a high-quality internet site in English and
Russian and other program's activities as described
below in the special section. This program will support
strengthening 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. The main scope of this
program to create processes to address the complex and
politically sensitive issues associated with illegal
logging, timber and forest resource degradation, smuggling,
and trade of illegal timber and wood fuel products at the
national and regional levels.