International Support to Country Capacity Building

Abstract

The concluding Chapter recalls UNCED Agenda 21 expectations of international support to country capacity building and presents a comprehensive approach for the purpose. First, the countries need to take the ownership and leadership of projects and insure that assessment and forest planning activities are conceived in the broader national development context. Second, the regional (South-South) cooperation has an important role to play as countries in a region tend to be ecologically, socially and economically comparable and could benefit from experience of other countries in the region in a cost-effective manner. Finally, donors and international agencies, in particular, FAO has an important role to play to ensure long term continuity of the capacity building process through direct donors’ support to countries, through regional cooperation and through FAO HQ based Interregional Programme support Global FRA and CCB, as successfully exemplified by such a project implemented during 1995-98 (GCP/INT/621/SWE).