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WBG-Forest and Forestry
Founded:	1944
Scope:	Global
Policy area:	Forest and forestry
Type of institution:	Intergovernmental organisation
Field of work:	Economics
Language:	English
URL:	WBG-Forest and Forestry website
Format:	html
Access:	Free
Publisher:	WBG
Country(ies):	USA
Date:	1/2/2012

The World Bank Group (WBG)-Forest and Forestry is the largest source of multilateral financing for forests, and together with other multilateral development banks, also serves as an implementing agency. The Bank’s reach is further amplified through various forest partnerships bolstering grassroots alliances of forest-dependent people to ensure their voices and concerns are heard in climate change and forest policy decisions. The Bank conducts forest-related analytic work and provides technical assistance to support reforms in developing countries.

Objective	To achieve the broad objectives of poverty alleviation, sustainable economic development, and environmental conservation, identifying and protecting critical forest conservation areas while supporting improved forest management in production forests outside these areas
Thematic priority(ies)	Poverty reduction, Economic development, Preserving global environmental services
Functions	To harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development and protecting local and global forest values.
Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions	FLEG, UNFF,CPF,WWF, REDD,PROFOR
Keywords	Forest resources, climate change, poverty eradication, fores industry, environmental services, forest funding

FOREST EUROPE criteria	FOREST EUROPE indicators	ToSIA indicators
Socio-economic functions	Contribution of forest sector to GDP	Total production, employment, forest resources