Community Planning and Engagement

We acknowledge the links between the sustainability of forest-dependent communities, resource management decisions and the increased roles that communities are playing in governing forest resources. We encourage collaboration regionally and beyond, and discourage silo-based approaches. Thus, we work to identify and advance innovative tools and approaches to ensure that communities’ vested interests and wellbeing are considered in forest management decisions, helping to achieve the vision of “a vibrant, sustainable, globally competitive forest industry that provides enormous benefits for current and future generations and for strong communities” (Working Roundtable on Forestry 2009:15).