Community & Private Forestry development programs.

Development and management of forest resources through the active participation of individual people and communities to meet their basic needs.

The national and Leasehold Forestry development programs.

Development and management of national forest by government agencies or private sector lessees, to compliment community and private forestry as a means to increase the supply of forest products.

The wood based industries programs.

To facilitate the conversion of wood into commodities needed by the people and to contribute to economic development through industrialization.

The medicinal and aromatic plant and other minor forest product development programs.

To increase the supply of medicinal and aromatic plants and other minor forest products and to facilitate their conversion into useful commodities and their distribution to local foreign markets.

The soil conversion and watershed management programs.

To protect the land against degradation and conserve its value by mobilizing national and local resource.

Ecosystem and genetic resource conservation programs.

To protect special areas for their ecosystem and genetic resource values, as well as for the provision of amenities and to promote In-situ and ex-situ conservation of plant and wildlife genetic resources.

The policy and legal reforms Programs.

To develop the legal framework so as to facilitate and enhance the contribution of individual people, communities and institutions to forest resource development, management and conservation.

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The institutional reforms programs.

To strengthen the organizational framework of the sector for more efficient and effective development Programs implementation.

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The human resource development Programs.

To develop the capacity of the people employed in the sector to implement forestry development Programs.

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The research and extension programs.

To strengthen the research and development, as well as the extension and public information capability of the forestry sector, and to promote the utilization of the results of research.

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The resource information system and Planning assistance programs.

To develop within the ministry of Forests and Soil conservation a forest resource information system and enhance capability for undertaking surveys, inventories and other information generating activities and for using management information in long term and operational planning by the government and private sector.

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The monitoring and evaluation programs.

To institutionalize a system for monitoring forestry development operations and their impacts and for processing monitoring data into information to guide the further information.