The objective of the workshop was to: i) orient/sensitize different stakeholders to the principles and applications of the voluntary guidelines as a planning, management and monitoring tool in policy, legal and technical work; ii) discuss the institutional, economic, social and cultural, environmental and landscape dimensions and how to balance the trade-offs between the different contexts; iii) analyse problems requiring attention; iv) identify priority areas that need to be addressed v) prepare log frames to detail impacts, outcomes, outputs, activities, stakeholders, indicators and assumptions; vi) and review follow-up actions and funding to develop a programme or project to strengthen planted forests development.
