The overall context for the study is partly provided by the three pillars of the World Bank’s new forest strategy (Sustaining Forests: a Development Strategy, 2002), which focuses on how the Bank can most effectively contribute to harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, to integrating forests in sustainable economic development, and to protecting global forest values.How institutions perform is central to the ability to deliver on this agenda. Consistent with the Strategy, the aim of this study is to provide an overview of forest sector organizations and reform processes within Europe’s transition economies and to provide strategic guidance on institutional performance criteria for meeting the objective of multi-functional and environmentally sustainable forest management.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
World Bank & PROFOR

Region
Global

Biome
All

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
All